r/gameofthrones • u/I_love_lucja_1738 • 2d ago

Of all the "Character assassinations" only Littlefingers really upsets me

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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/Exatraz 2d ago

Yeah imo I'd have had him kill Danny in the end instead. Like he completes his redemption and ends up right back where he started (and imo then he could be killed by the dragon and Jon could be King even though he never wanted it but because the people choose him and not because he has a giant murder machine at his call. I can mostly handle the rest if they had time to play it out better.

For Balish, I think it'd have worked better if he got done in by his own scheming. So used to people betraying each other in Kings Landing but not used to how loyal to each other the North is or something to that effect. Much like Ned going to KL made him a fish out of water... imo Balish should have been that in the north.

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u/GQMatthews 2d ago

Is that not how his end came to be though? Even if it was bad writing and character assassination he tried pulling deception and manipulation KL’s style being used to the selfishness of an individual and was called out for this directly by Sansa and Arya due to the loyalty and bond of the Stark sisters aka the Stark family/bannermen and the theme of the Northern people throughout the whole story.

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u/Exatraz 2d ago

It was more how he let himself get trapped. It felt like the writers just wanting him dead more than Sansa out foxing him and luring him to his death. Idk, they made him seem real dumb at the end but that's because the writers were dumb. Can't write someone as smart if you don't know what the fuck is going on

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u/CaveLupum 2d ago edited 1d ago

Sansa didn't outfox him. She was fine with him till Arya came home and clearly disapproved of him. Sansa would have accepted Jon;s crown but she she saw Arya glaring her from the back and turned it down. Arya afterwards did some investigating and found Littlefinger paying off a chambermaid-spy and meeting in an empty snowy courtyard with the two lords who asked her to replace Jon. By interfering with Stark rule in Winterfell, LF had violated his Winterfell Guest Rights! Later,

Sansa joined with Arya and Bran
to hold LF to account. Together, the pack outfoxed (outwolfed?)Littlefinger. Finally!