Re: Game of Thrones S7
I watched the season finale last night. I enjoyed it a lot and thought it was impressive how they handled having so many characters in the same scene.
One thing that stuck out to me was that I was glad they got rid of Littlefinger. They haven't really known what to do with him for the past couple of seasons and he was far more interesting when his motivations were murky. Once it came about that he was interested in chaos for its own sake, he became less intriguing.
Kind of like how a basic rule of writing is that villains are always doing the right thing in their mind and there should be some underlying motivation for that action. At first, the impression was given that Littlefinger was motivated by his undying love for Catelyn Stark, but that was given less weight when he became fixated on Sansa. It was great that she was the one who passed the sentence to have him executed.
Along the same lines, if the major villain is going to be the Night King, they ought to explain why he wants to destroy humanity. If he's just going to be a mindless creature driven by blind hatred, that's less interesting than if he has some articulated motivation.
Originally posted by sixridgeroad
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One thing that stuck out to me was that I was glad they got rid of Littlefinger. They haven't really known what to do with him for the past couple of seasons and he was far more interesting when his motivations were murky. Once it came about that he was interested in chaos for its own sake, he became less intriguing.
Kind of like how a basic rule of writing is that villains are always doing the right thing in their mind and there should be some underlying motivation for that action. At first, the impression was given that Littlefinger was motivated by his undying love for Catelyn Stark, but that was given less weight when he became fixated on Sansa. It was great that she was the one who passed the sentence to have him executed.
Along the same lines, if the major villain is going to be the Night King, they ought to explain why he wants to destroy humanity. If he's just going to be a mindless creature driven by blind hatred, that's less interesting than if he has some articulated motivation.
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