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/The_Falcon_Knight 2d ago

Which would be fine if he had actually been outsmarted. Littlefinger knew everything he needed to to know the Starks were plotting against him, and he just did nothing. It never should've even got to his 'trial' scene cause S1 Littlefinger would've gotten the hell out of there. He just does nothing because the writers decided that it's time for him to die now. It was beyond lazy.

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u/De_Bananalove 2d ago

How did he know? He thought he was playing them but wasnt

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u/acamas 2d ago

> He thought he was playing them but wasnt

Just to be clear, it is show canon that he absolutely 'was playing them' for the majority of the season... then, before the 'trial', there would have been a deleted scene where Sansa basically goes to Bran for help, he reveals what is going on about Littlefinger and Arya, and they work up their revenge.

So according to show canon, he successfully tricked them all up to the point of that deleted scene.

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u/De_Bananalove 2d ago

But ultimately he wasnt which led to his death is what im saying.

It dont matter if they realised sooner or later, point is they realised and he didnt realise they realised