10 Reasons Game Of Thrones Is No Good For George R. R. Martin
4. Littlefinger Is A Cretin And Therefore So Is Everyone Else Ohhh, Littlefinger. What happened to you? In A Song Of Ice And Fire, no-one really knows Lord Petyr Baelish. Hes one of the most popular lords at court a common man, elevated to high station through merit and hard work, who is nonetheless liked by the nobility because hes well aware of his place. Hes well liked and respected by the court and by the common man. No one suspects him of anything, really least of all treason. Because its Littlefinger, the plotters plotter, who plays the game of thrones like no one else. The events that kick off the story are his doing. Every time a political wheel turns, its his shoulder behind it. Secretly, behind the scenes, making moves almost no one else can see, Baelish is playing the longest game of all. And then in the show, Littlefingers a pointy-bearded cretin with and evil smile and a sinister accent. From the very moment hes introduced in the first season, everyone and we mean everyone tells the Starks (and therefore us, since the naïve northerners are our entry into the politics of the kingdom) that Lord Baelish is a snake with no friends, and not to be trusted. So does he, any chance he gets. He gets sexposition (urrgh) in which he goes on and on about it. If this was a Disney film, there would be a song. If we were members of the court in Kings Landing in Game Of Thrones, and kings and Hands of the King started dying, the first person we would think of, and imprison, torture and execute, would be Lord Petyr Baelish. If, on the other hand, we were members of the court in Kings Landing in A Song Of Ice And Fire and similar events occurred, Littlefinger would be the last person we would think of. Again, do you see the difference? Also (and we dont want to harp on about this) but what is the accent that Aiden Gillan is attempting? It sounds like Welsh by way of comedy-Gestapo-officer. A good measure of the difference between the two entirely different characters is in the way that they each handle the murder of Lady Lysa. Novel-Littlefinger throws her through the Moon Door and immediately frames the womans favourite singer, drawing Sansa into the cover-up to lend the story credence. Television-Littlefinger has no plan at all. None. He stumbles his way through an explanation until Sansa is brought forward, and then helplessly waits for her to say something. If Sansa had remained the helpless little girl shes been for four years, Littlefinger would have been following Lady Lysa minutes later. Fortunately for him, she chose that moment to level up and begin showing signs of having paid attention to all the advice that every courtier in Westeros had been trying to give her since her father still had a head.