I feel like book Littlefinger would have gotten his ass out of Winterfell the moment after Bran told him "Chaos is a ladder".

The show forgot their target audience, people who are interested in characters and their motivations not the people who watch it in a bar and cheer every time they see a dragon.

Season 1 Littlefinger: "Distrusting me was the wisest thing you’ve done since you climbed off your horse." Season 7 Littlefinger: "Lady Chancha plz take me back uwuwuwuwu"

Little Finger was too smart a character for the show writers to handle...so they killed him...

George: look how they massacred my boy.

Littlefinger and Varys, more so in the books, are the architects of the Game of Thrones.

It always bothered me how Jon Snow and everyone in winterfell was treating littlefinger at the start of season 7, I get it the viewers know he's not trustworthy, but the characters shouldn't know that. He literally brought his army across half the continent and saved the day, they should be celebrating him and calling him the savior of the north

Book Euron: Demigod in Valyrian steel armor, dragon binding horn, riches and fortunes, Bond villain etc TV Show Euron: Steve Stifler

Littlefinger: The man who stated being prepared for everything wasn't prepare for an obvious twist. Thx D&D.

You know who might have been really valuable in fighting Cersei? Littlefinger.

In the books you have not a clue what game Littlefinger is playing. He is complex, unpredictable, not really good nor evil, because you just don't know. A real game player and game changer. In the show he reveals his motives, he is portrayed as clearly evil or a bad guy, makes foolish, rookie mistakes, and dies without a major purpose. This is conventionalizing a character, what a shame.

Mr. George RR Martin please finish your book because I lost trust in the show.

D & D will remain in history as the writers who destroyed the greatest character and Got together

Aidan Gillen should have won an Emmy. His portrayal of Littlefinger was flawless. Hope to see him in more big projects in the future. Very underrated actor

What I like about Petyr Baelish "Littlefinger" is that, as most of Martin's characters save for Euron, Ramsay and Gregor, he could be the hero of his own movie. You've got this 15 year old in love with a young, beautiful girl he's grown with (Cat). She is going to be married away to handsome, strong hunk Brandon Stark. One night when he's drunk, Cat sneaks into his bed and gives him the immense gift of her virginity (it means A LOT in that context, and it was Lysa, not Catelyn, Cat was a virgin when she married Eddard Stark, but as far as Petyr knows, Cat was in love with him: if she hadn't deeply loved him, she wouldn't have taken that risk). This courageous kid then challenges Brandon Stark for a duel for his beloved Cat's hand. Brandon, being older and stronger, slices him almost in half, and Petyr spends A LOT of time alone at home at the Fingers thinking about the unfairness of life. He sends a letter to Catelyn Stark (I hope Martin writes it some day), which she burns. This guy becomes über ambitious after that. He still believes Catelyn loved him, and that Cat only married Eddard because her duty and the family's honor forced her to do so. Needless to say, the rest of his life was devoted to going up in the ladder, until he became richer than many nobles and Lord Paramount of Harrenhal. This kid would be the nerdy, physically weak, Math-loving guy in a typical High School Movie. He is the protagonist of his own movie. He is affably selfish (in the books), but not THAT evil (not as much as he is shown to be in the series). What I love about this books is how much they gain with re-readings. After knowing all of this about Petyr, you go back to A Game of Thrones, see him hear Sansa talk about songs and princes (eleven year-old Sansa), and tell her: 'Life is not a song, sweetling. One day you'll understand, to your sorrow'. This is one of the moments in which Petyr Baelish is being absolutely honest, and tender, and is REALLY caring for this little girl who so much resembles the girl he loved. He KNOWS Sansa lives in a bubble, and he knows she's bound to be dragged out of it with extreme pain. Because he was like her once, and tried to be the hero of his own tale, but in real life, being bigger and stronger counts more than any other thing. I guess the character becomes hateful to us after we continue reading... But there's a part of me who deeply cares about the 15 year-old Petyr Baelish who faced a Brandon Stark in combat to fight for his one true love. I feel for this kid who had to grow as fast as possible and face the hard truths of the cruel world he lives in, while he was healing from the wounds a Brandon Stark gave him (Brandon would have killed Petyr if not for Cat, yet another reason why Petyr always believed Cat was in love with him and sacrificed their love for her family). And I especially like that moment of compassion and empathy he shows for Sansa, knowing where she comes from. I know the guy seems to be hateful... but I adore the fact that once you get into his shoes, you can understand what he's been fighting for his whole life.

" A man without motives is a man no one suspects"

Book Littlefinger makes much more sense. How can a character that no one trusts and is constantly suspected know about everyone's secrets and scheme to gain power? It makes more sense for Littlefinger to act friendly and helpful so when the time comes he has "friends" who will trust him, which means he'll know more secrets and they'll believe in whatever he tells them or advise them on. Also, more people will be willing to help him.

Littlefinger is the best character. After he died on the show I realised the differences immediately.

Martin's Littlefinger was smarter than D&D. They couldn't write his witty dialogues or schemes so they just killed him off.

In the book, Tyrion is fully aware that Littlefiger frames him for attempted murder, but he still thinks Petyr is too valuable to discard.

Like all characters, they stripped them down to one dimensional idiots

In real life the Bank and people like Littlefinger always win.

Little finger was supposed to throw Cersei's words back in her face before he has her killed by Sansa: "Power is power."

We thought D&D were being creative when they killed characters before their book death, but the sad truth is they couldn’t write for such amazing characters

Yeah, Littlefinger in the show was an example of true character assassination.

His death was so anticlimatic that it should have stopped snowing in Winterfell

Littlefinger got butchered so hard in the show. I lost all respect for the writers when he sold Sansa to be married to Ramsay Bolton... this... is not even remotely close to what happens in the books. And doing it makes absolutely zero sense. 1. Littlefinger is in love with Sansa. He keeps her safe and completely protected with him in the Vale in the books. They summarized her entire plot from book 4 in a single scene in season 5. Everything after the Vale is made up in the show. 2. WHAT DOES HE GAIN FROM GIVING SANSA TO THE BOLTONS?! Nothing good happens because of this in the show. It just makes Littlefinger look like a complete idiot. In fact, it makes everyone look like a complete idiot. There is no point to it other than the writers wanting to defile Sansa. Absolutely nothing comes from this for everyone involved, other than Theon saving Sansa. Which doesn't happen in the book. In the book, they give the Bolton's a fake Stark girl because no one knows what they look like anymore. And the Bolton's don't care about having a real Stark. They just want to have one so that people will bow to them. Theon helps save the fake Sansa and that's where his redemption begins because he's just saving a poor girl. See, that's actually clever. The show is so nonsensical, it's been driving me insane ever since season 5.

Kid named Littlefinger :

Joke's on them. Petyr is hanging out with Tupac on a remote island, laughing at how useless Varys & Tyrion have become.

D&D butchered Littlefinger and decided to make Cersei the big threat because they have a hard-on for the actress, even though Petyr is a thousand times more dangerous.

Littlefinger, Tyrion, and Varys were the best characters...so sad to see what's happened to them all.

Show Baelish seemed to let his hornieness get in the way of his logic, which book/early show Baelish would never have done. "Why did you ask me to come over Sansa?" "To have Arya execute you for treason." "Haha then what? ;)"

Be little finger, plot for months to kill joffrey and rescue sansa, goes personaly to rescue her, starts training her to be cuning like him, she is starting to trust him and feeling like he is her protector, she can be his key to rule over the north.... Gives her away despite everything, making all his efforts go to waste and starts behaving like a bufoon until he dies powerless and pathetic. ayyyyylmao

I haven’t seen the new season but it sounds like it’s starting to show that Benioff also wrote X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Baelish was one of my favourite characters, if not my favourite in GOT, he simply WAS Game of Thrones: the charming, smart villain, he was evil without destroying or burning anything, always smiling and elegant. The most dangerous man in the show, the real bad guy, he could have been much more important for the show... but NO, he had to die in the most idiot way, killed by two girls when literally EVERYTHING was gonna happening would have suggested him to run away from Winterfell for his own security. Thanks D&D for ruining such a great character and probably the greatest tv serie of all times.

I'd like to see a Littlefinger solo backstory rise to power

Littlefinger was my favourite character. I think narratively it would have been satisfying for him to win the thrones at the end. He started the war and would end it through his intelligence. But regardless if you have to kill him - and for it to feel earned - then he needs to be outsmarted while also being incredibly smart. Instead they lowered his IQ by 50 points. It was the worst character death i've seen in TV history.

Season 8 should have just been a series of interviews with R.R, then a Starbucks cup in the background would make sense.

The only characters in the books who openly mistrust Littlefinger are Varys, Tyrion and the Lords of the Vale. For the first two its because they are both scheming behind the scenes and keep noticing Littlefinger's influence clashing with their own, and they can see through the façade (and know its so effective that revealing it would make them look suspicious, not him. No-one trusts Varys because he's an outsider and 'a bit odd', and due to his position everyone knows he's a spy. No-one respects Tyrion because he's a dwarf and the knowledge of his father's displeasure with him has spread so far and wide. The Lords of the Vale (or more accurately, the Lords Declarant) mistrust Littlefinger for entirely different reasons - they see him as an upstart, since they all knew of him growing up as being a petty lord from the fringes who's managed to claw his way up the ladder, and there's also a degree of jealousy and self interest as they all want the ear of Lyssa and by proxy her son Robert Arryn. They see him as a direct threat because he's positioned himself as the legal ward and Regent of the Lord of the Vale, a position they all want for themselves. The Vale is practically a different country at that stage, in a weird limbo with the rest of Westeros, and Littlefinger's power derives from outside of the Vale as much as it does his marriage to Lyssa. Not to mention he's considered a foreigner due to his recent ancestor being from Essos. That's the difference between the show and the books, in a nutshell.

"There's a level of complexity in Game of Thrones..." There was... there was... Dont let us down, George.

How awesome would it have been seeing Sean Bean in a lot of these episodes as a Night's Watch member. Man.... I miss Ned Stark. Season 1 was exceptional

This man is really speaking like this is history and it happened and I'm all for it.

I love Littlefinger in the books. He’s so clever and quick-witted that even after everything he does you are still interested in what his next plan is.

Book Littlefinger: Devious Machiavellian that hatches clever plans upon clever plans and could be a contender for the Iron Throne Show Littlefinger: Wussy Sansa fanboy

i love how he talks about each of his characters with love and respect .

Littlefinger should have been the one to ultimately drive Daenerys to embrace her mad queen impulsions

LittleFinger has always been my favorite character. I was hoping he would have made it to the end

Littlefinger became Middlefinger in the show!

How old is this interview? It had to be before Euron Greyjoy came back because he is by far the most different from the books.

Little finger is arguably the key character in all the books he sets off almost the entire chain of conflict in order to pursue progression from within it. I absolutely hated how they ended his character even though I understand the villain has to die but they made him look stupid.

I know it's almost impossible to believe that Littlefinger faked his death and he's a faceless man, and somehow he'll reappear in a plot twist situation that makes him the King of the Iron Throne. I know that won't happen. But I like to believe it. It's the perfect ending in my mind.

GRRM is probably the only person who can kill Baelish without any horseshit

D&D are complete hacks. It has genuinely upset me how much they have butchered the wonderful source material.

The way little finger takes the Vail is one of my favorite parts in the books

I always pictured him as maybe not the final antagonist but the one that sets in motion the final conflict of self destruction of the main characters, and a mayor player in the finale

Tv Little finger screams; " He is Bad news, stay away from him!" Book little finger the complete opposite, everybody think he is harmeless and I hate him for that.

Littlefinger and Sansa's chapters at the Eyrie were probably one of my favourite parts of the book series.

The show still feels strange without Littlefinger.

How the interviewer doesn’t grasp how the beauty of the books is made of how a lot of little pieces work together in a really intricate way, and is a lot about subtlety, and about how life has so many different aspects to it, and asks martin “because the story is about... MURRRDERR right?? RUTHLESSNESS!” is very telling of how the show failed to tell the story proper.

"Little Finger" sounds much more interesting when G.R.R.M describes him.

It's a shame what happened to Littlefinger, Varys and Tyrion in the show. Thanks D&D.

everytime i listen to this oldman , i feel some sort of comfort and calmness in my inside , makes me sure that eventhough the show is blown up , at least 2 ( and at the very least 1 ) fantastic "logical" books in the world of westeros is yet to come for us ice and fire lovers.

I find it very hard that George would kill Littlefinger as easily. Together with Varys and Tyrion, he is one of the wisest characters in the show and one of the easiest to trust. As such, one of the unlikeliest to make a mistake and get killed because of it. Stark and Robb only die because they make big mistakes, for example. Characters generally die when they make mistakes.

The directors are butchering season 8. I feel so sorry for GRRM

Littlefinger was always the most interesting character in the show to me, too bad the writers gave him a lobotomy and threw him under the bus at the end.

His characters inhabit a wide and complex spectrum of good and bad. Not predictable or pure. I love that. It was so refreshing to see that in a fantasy novel.

I just really genuinely enjoy the thought and wisdom GRRM puts into his stories, and his characters. He truly tries to deliver the impossible, and sometimes he even succeeds. I love the cunning of his characters, the randomness of those taken by death... the fear and excitement that leaves for the reader. So few works out there can truly keep you on your toes. To feel like you have the choice to root for one character or another- to attempt to understand, judge or withhold judgement for a character. His books often feel so much more alive than other fantasy novels that attempt to arrive at the same feelings. Because unlike them, he does not shy away from consequence- the true weight of actions.

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It's becoming more and more obvious to me how skewed of a view most people have of the Asoiaf series, thinking it's incredibly violent, and I'm tired of it. A common meme everyone believes is that it's an incredibly vicious, ruthless, murderous, and sexual story, probably because of the show and the fact that that's what's used to advertise it. Like at 2:55 when the interviewer says that it's (supposedly) a vicious and ruthless story. In reality and in comparison to other series, it's really not that murderous or violent of a series. Even compared to LOTR, it's not even that more violent, it's just that the deaths are usually more thought out and don't happen on a battlefield. That's why GRRM pauses when the interviewer says that, because he's heard this before in every interview he's done since the show came out, from reporters who haven't read a single page from the books and who often haven't even seen the show. It's super annoying.

I missed the show when it followed the books. The horrible writers couldn't keep up with George's vision 🙂💔

I love when he talks in-depth about characters like this

Interestingly, I also believe that Aidan Gillen can also pull off the original version of littlefinger as described by GRR.

I hope one day we get an animated version of George’s true game of thrones. Maybe in 2030 if he finishes winds of winter

little finger should haved been the..well second to the last villian the night king the very last of course little finger had so much potential

Little finger was a great character, and the guy that played him in the show is really good actor overall. Always liked him in everything he was in.

I appreciate this excerpt

I always wanted LF to win due to the fact that he came from nowhere. He didnt come from a big house or had titles with him.

you can tell he loves and is proud of his story but isnt smug about it

“A man with no motive is a man no one suspects.”

George is a legend! Thank you for Game of Thrones

Part of the reason that George can write so many characters from so many different perspectives so wells is that, whether be noble of heart or downright vile, he seems to have sympathy for them.

I hope we get a reboot with more book accuracy some day

Spot on. Book little finger is the hidden threat no one even thinks to look at.

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D&D's writing is a disgrace to the books

I liked the actor's portrayal of Little Finger, very fun to watch. But realistically, such a person would never last, how can you last when every word you say comes out as sinister?

Very interesting. Thx for posting this.

Love you George hope I can meet you someday your interpretation of reality told through your work has forever changed my life and how I navigate through the obstacles and I how I approach defeat as well as victory...The characters that you have created are so real they feel like lifelong friends and I love how your not afraid to make us look at ourselves and accept peoples faults because we can all be both the villain as well as the hero IMO ☺️ how we could except behaviors from our “hero’s” as long as provoked but we don’t see the “villains” can be provoked just the same

ONLY LITTLEFINGER CAN SAVE THE SHOW

He was still one of the best characters in the show

What always impress me is how George RR Martin talks casually of his books which are so complicated and intricated. But in the mean time he talks about it with so much simplicity

I love the world this great man created!!! And I love this great man!!!

This is what I keep telling people. Littlefinger in the books is hands-down my favorite character!

summary: show Littlefinger had a dramatic drop in IQ after season 4

Little Finger was a great example of how single moments set characters upon a path. Peter's beating during his vie for Caitlin Tully's hand was the moment Littlefinger was born.

Good upload thanks aegon

Littlefinger scenes were really good was disappointed when he died

Little Finger is Azor Ahai. See you in the next episode.

GRRM : Book littlefinger and Television show Littlefinger are very different characters ... Stark Fanboys: HE IS DEAD. DEAL WITH IT!!! NOOBS!!!

hot pie will sit on the iron throne,and then marry drogon and give birth to fire breathing cooks in the last episode. you know,just to subvert our expectations.