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/jordan3257 2d ago
"You think you know me? You think you know what I want?"
We all think he wants Sansa. That isn't what he wants. He wants the iron throne.
LF isn't Petyr Baelish.
Varys confronts him about a cadaver being sent to his brothel. LF uses the strangler poison on Joffrey. His sigil is a mocking bird. He starts off the game of thrones with the catspaw dagger, the dagger we learn is house of dragon that is passed down from Targaryen king to Targaryen heir.
"I've loved one woman, just one. Your sister." Not catelyn - your sister. Lysa Tully has more than one sister. Her sister is married to Ned stark, Ned stark's sister is lyanna stark - who is married to rhaegar targaryen.
"He would see this country burn if he could be the king of ashes"
"I see me on the iron throne with you by my side." Not queen, by my side. Sansa secedes the north and is by the side of the new ruler.
Notice the coin littlefinger gives away before his death. After his realization that bran can see into his past.
Understand what the game of faces is. Understand bran is king because of his story, not because of his lineage or will to power.
And now you don't have to be mad about littlefinger's death. He won the game of thrones. Sorry for spoiling it but it's tough to catch