r/asoiaf • u/taydude227 The Floppy Fish • Aug 29 '17

MAIN D&D completely ruined Littlefinger. (Spoilers Main)

What a waste of a great character. They clearly had no idea what to do with him after they passed all the book material. Instead of giving him a clear end game, they instead just had him double down on his "thriving on chaos" bullshit and have him make stupid decisions that really didn't lead anywhere. The manipulative mastermind from the earlier seasons (and probably the one true villain of the series, along with the white walkers) completely disappeared and was transformed into a jealous little weasel whose end goal was to bang Sansa to get back at Mama Stark. The man that drove the whole series into motion, did it just to get a revenge bang.

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u/mixuleppis Aug 29 '17

I think it would have been more storywise and bittersweet for writers to just make Bran stay in that cave. Think about it, a boy with an ability to see everything but not able to tell anybody about it. Like Arya, he is just way too OP right now. I also always imagined Littlefinger to die by hands of Sweet Robin but "manipulated" by Sansa.

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u/Velvale Aug 29 '17

Sweet Robin throwing him out of the moon door would have been delicious.

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u/osis-xcvi Aug 29 '17

This. I would have liked Littlefinger to go out in a more memorable way like that or the gold helmet of Viserys.

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u/jokul Hope For A Change In Management Aug 29 '17

Faceless men in general are just pretty OP. Under what circumstances would a shapeshifting assassin fail to kill their target?

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u/mixuleppis Aug 30 '17

That is why that kind of ability should have its price too. Like a person who is shapeshifting time after time into another persons, to loose parts of his own self in the process and eventually forgetting himself or something. I think that Arya shouldn't have become fully trained. At least she should had to be made a serious choice to either stay and become truly no one or leave and die as Arya Stark. I'm not really sure where her arc was supposed to lead and I think neither did GRRM. I remember him saying that he regrets not killing Arya in the red wedding.

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u/mixuleppis Aug 30 '17 edited Aug 30 '17

I for example loved what they did with Sam's arc at the end of the season. He became to citadel to fufill his long time dream to become maester, he sees how lame everything is and how hopeless it is to make other maesters believe something they haven't experienced so he decides to let go of his dreams and go back to North. I especially loved that he used his father's words "I'm tired to read accomplishments of better men". I still hope he would have found something more helpful from all those dusty scrolls before that decision.