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Edit- Absolutely. The reveal about Jon's parentage doesn't hold up under any scrutiny. There is literally zero proof of the claim, the only proof that
may exist is in the head of a person that NO ONE would believe, and on paper that only tells half the story, is easily refutable based on the commonly-held understanding, and exists in a world where the vast majority of people are illiterate. Without the narrative filling in all of the gaps for the viewer (and thus giving us knowledge that would otherwise be impossible to achieve) there is no veracity to Jon's claim. This uncertainty would have been an interesting way to take the story, but again that would have taken slightly more effort than D&D wanted to put into the show.
I think the finale of HIMYM would've made a good final season. The wedding should've been done by November sweeps, and the rest of the show telling the story before and after
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The big issue with Game of Thrones is that each character had goals in the early seasons -- goals that were defined by their upbringing and experiences. D&D kept that until they ran out of book material, and then got to be obsessed with violating users' expectations -- even though those expectations were exactly where all the writing was leading.
I was always unclear on what Littlefinger's goal was. After his escape from Kings Landing, I felt like his story fell apart and was aimless. I guess he was trying to build alliances and gain control of the North so that he could put pressure of Cersei and become king? Whatever it was I don't feel like it was ever very well explained. If he did indeed want to become king, that to me doesn't fit with the character. Littlefinger may have wanted power, but he was always more of a puppet master, a behind the scenes guy. Becoming Master of Coin struck me as a position that was perfect for him. It put him into the inner circle, gave him immense influence, while still being under the radar and out of the spotlight. But instead he makes a play at King which is absolutely hopeless. He has no claim to the throne, no natural powerbase from which to start, and in order to succeed would need an insane number of events to go PERFECTLY his way in order to win. He was reaching Joker levels of omniscience already, and it made it clear that he was never going to succeed.
Frankly, of all the characters that survived, he should have been one of them. Most of the characters showed time and again that they were dumb, Littlefinger just suddenly became dumb because....reasons. As he was written from Season 1-3, he would have known when to bail on his hopeless plan and settle in on a more modest one.
