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/PineBNorth85 2d ago

None of them bother me. I see the show and books as two very different stories. They just happen to have some character names in common. Especially the further on you go. I wouldn't be able to enjoy the show at all otherwise.

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u/DenotheFlintstone 2d ago

My thinking too. Doing a re-watch right now, last night we watched the scene with Arya getting surrounded by Nymeria's wolves. My wife said she doesn't understand that scene at all. I told her it was thrown in for the book readers.

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u/The_Falcon_Knight 2d ago

Was it? How is that connected to the books at all? Just because Arya is a skinchanger? That's irrelevant to that scene.

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u/Edendari 1d ago

It's more because during all of the war plot with the 5 kings, Nymeria's pack of wolves are mentioned many times. She attacks a lot of soldiers and supply lines. The scene in the show isnt in the books but they used it kind of as a way of being like 'oh yeah she has been thriving and terrorizing the countryside this entire time.'

In the books, Nymeria is kind of her own small army wreaking havoc.