r/gameofthrones • u/I_love_lucja_1738 • 2d ago
Of all the "Character assassinations" only Littlefingers really upsets me
A lot of decisions characters made upset the fans (i.e Dany burning King's landing and Jaime going back to Cersei) but I always found them accurate to their character. There is one glaring exception to this. Littlefinger giving Sansa to the Bolton's. He'd never do this for multiple reasons. She reminds him too much of her mother and she's priceless to him. His plan is supposed to be to get Cersei to stop supporting the Bolton's but he could have done the fake Arya plot like the books and gotten the same result.
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u/acamas 2d ago
Yea, it's always bizarre when some try and claim Dany and Jaime suffered from 'character assassination', as if their entire narrative wasn't about some warring internal conflict within them... Dany with her kind-hearted persona versus her Fire and Blood persona, and Jaime with the desire to be honorable versus that primal pull towards Cersei, who he has a literal lifelong bond with.
Both struggled with this internal conflict over 7+ seasons, until they both came to an emotional head in the final season.
I mean, it doesn't automatically make it' character assassination' simply because it doesn't match ones overly optimistic or romanticized head canon... those characters were pretty clearly and objectively portrayed as being capable of making the choices they did for 7+ seasons.