Yeah, I appreciate Littlefinger’s character too. He’s gotten a bit too passive lately, but I’m sure he has a few more big plays up his sleeve before The End.
Davos? Varys? Missendei? Melisandre? Qyburn? Bronn?
Given how difficult it is to make sense of somebody giving the Valyrian steel dagger to the assassin, I wonder if some weird three-eyed raven thing is going on, along the lines of the paradoxical “hold the door” being transmitted back through time to the young Hodor. Could Bran himself have influenced events in his past in order to get the dagger into Arya’s hands today?
But I’m not sure how that relates to the ensuing chaos caused by the assassination attempt, it doesn’t make a lot of sense that this is a result that the three-eyed raven might have sought.
He ranted a couple times about how much of a badass his father was. One memorable instance was when he basically stated that Tywyn was a pussy (by comparison with his dad) during a small council meeting.
There’s no evidence that Littlefinger didn’t truly love Catelyn. I’m pretty much convinced he did. In fact, I’m pretty much convinced that it’s his love for Catelyn that made him what he is. He wouldn’t have tried so hard to acquire power if it weren’t for his original inability (due to his low birth) to marry her.
Not the only one, no.
It was about the only person her respected. He wanted his approval. He was a cruel and stupid child before Roberts death, but afterwards he got completely unhinged.
Littlefinger lied.
Littlefinger lies.
He lies to create chaos. “Chaos is a ladder”.
It got Catelyn to kidnap Tyrion at the crossroads. LF bet on Tyrion dying then, and him getting the blame in the end.
It was not Tyrions.
It was not Littlefingers either.
Tyrion did not win it off of Littlefinger in a bet against Jamie.
Because Tyrion NEVER bets against his brother.
It’s many lies. The dagger was from Roberts weapon cache. Only ones with access to it would be the family, and Tyrion just has absolutely no need (and as we know know) no motivation to kill Brann.
None of those are in the running to sit on the Iron Throne. That’s what I meant, but I see your point.
Is that from the show?
The trouble is that it’s hard to tell nowadays what is and isn’t from the show from that far back.
Perhaps it is a mystery which hasn’t quite been given the depth in the show, so it might be from somewhere which doesn’t exist…
However, it being a bunch of lies from Littlefinger to implicate Tyrion unjustly was from the show.
Not only that, the proposed motivation that it was to put Bran out of his misery would be entirely out character for Joffrey. And as has been pointed out, the fact that Joffrey is dead pretty much excludes him on dramatic grounds. There would be no point in bringing it up now if Joffrey was the culprit.
You should probably do yourself and everyone else a favor and stop trying to correct spelling errors.
99% certain that info is not from the show.
First human kill of a psychopath being easy meat?
And him being dead doesn’t mean it excludes him on dramatic grounds, if that information gets to the Starks about Littlefingers lies leading to war, then LF is likely to die. Or use his armies to attack Winterfell…
Looked up the transcripts. Littlefinger specifically says Tyrion won it off him in a bet, but that he will probably say it was stolen.
This is all Tyrion says specifically about the dagger:
While GoT does defy conventions, the extent to which it does so is IMO exaggerated. Sure, Ned’s execution and the Red Wedding were shocking and not the kind of thing ordinarily expected in fantasy tales. But GoT (at least the TV show) does adhere to typical dramatic conventions far more often than not. We haven’t seen a major sympathetic character be killed off unexpectedly in more than three seasons. Instead, they have repeatedly been rescued from certain death in the nick of time in highly implausible ways, or even been brought back from the dead. Jaime being saved at the last minute in fact is entirely consistent with most of the show.
While it might have made some sense for Jaime to die at that point, his dramatic arc of redemption has not been played out. Also he has a Chekhov’s gun in the form of a Valyrian steel sword, which suggest he may survive to confront the White Walkers.
Yeah I think that’s the one honest thing he has said. He loved Cat but his idea of love is and how he expresses it are twisted.
Bran was a thousand miles away and not in any way easy meat. Joffrey could never have arranged an assassination at that distance. He was a child, and a stupid one at that. Littlefinger was clever enough to have managed it. (He could have hired an assassin and sent him north with the dagger. The assassin was meant to kill Bran and get away while leaving the dagger to point the finger at Tyrion.)
That makes far more sense if Littlefinger is the actual culprit rather than Joffrey.
Hodor?!
I was just saying the same thing myself. Characters generally aren’t just killed at random to shock the audience. It’s usually to drive the plot forward or because their story arc has ended (although I suppose that would end their story arc by definition).
What would be shocking (but not really) is if Danarys is killed, possibly by one or more of her inner circle, because she starts going down the Mad King’s daughter path. Of course then there would be the question of what happens to her dragons (assuming they survive). Maybe they just fly away and be free like Arya’s direwolf.
I kind of feel like Jaimie’s dramatic arc of redemption will conclude with him coming full circle and either killing Cercei or causing both of them to sacrifice themselves for some greater good.
No, that doesn’t make sense. Joefrey is a sadistic jerk who takes pleasure in watching other’s suffering. Ned, Sansa, Ros, various other people he’s had beaten or killed. He wouldn’t send some assassin to kill Bran out of sight.
Most likely, Littlefinger took advantage of Bran’s injury by stealing a knife Tyrion had acquired from him, having an assassin attempt to kill Bran, get caught and then implicate Tyrion to incite conflict between the Starks and Lannisters. What Caitlyn did to Trion was immaterial, as it would infuriate Jaimie regardless.
The question now is does Littlefinger have all this shit planned out or is he making it up as he goes along?
He wings it.
“Chaos is a ladder.”