4. Petyr Littlefinger Baelish Game Of Thrones
There arent many heroes left in Game Of Thrones these days. Protagonists, on the other hand we have more protagonists than we can count, and if anyones still a mover and a shaker on this show after season five, its Petyr Littlefinger Baelish. Hes the master manipulator, the ultimate player of the game of thrones. Right? Actually, probably not. Game Of Thrones likes to tell us that Littlefinger is this great schemer, this spider at the heart of a great web, but wheres the evidence in the show? From the moment were introduced to him, no one trusts Baelish. Hell tell the world exactly how unreliable his support and friendship is, but pretty much everyone already knows: hes a sly little weasel with an evil pointy beard and a sinister smile who talks like the villain in an old black and white Republic Pictures serial. Can anyone think of anything that this supposedly Machiavellian political genius has really achieved in five seasons of messing around? Hes betrayed the Starks for the Lannisters and then the Lannisters for the Tyrells and Sansa. Hes been given Harrenhal but probably lost it again, and his hold on the Eyrie depends entirely on whether anyone picks holes in his craptastic fiction about Lysa Arryns mysterious sudden death. In fact, that spur of the moment murder is a case in point: it was so badly thought through that it took some quick thinking on Sansas part to save him. Thats right the mastermind had his beans yanked off the stove by a nervous teenager.
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