I think I might have preferred it if they cast someone as he was intended in the book - a trustworthy, nice person (a la Varys perhaps?) who surprises people when we find out he's a power hungry bugger.
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Worst in Westeros for me would probably be Littlefinger's actor...
what is wrong with you
He has this one look that he keeps throughout. It's even been said that one of the bigger differences between the series and the show is that in the show Littlefinger is always somewhat sinister yet in the books he was actually great at being friendly and lovely and whatnot. But in the show, geez. Littlefinger can't say a single thing without sounding and looking like he's trying to give a child some candy as a reward for following him into his bedroom.
The whole point to Littlefinger is that there is more than one side to him. I believe that he portrays his literary character perfectly, and that he is easily misconstrued as being gentle and kind in the book because we aren't there to see the cunning smiles and flickers that Aiden Gillen portrays so well.
The show needed a way to characterize the slyness of Petyr Baelish, and they found someone marvelous to execute those characteristics.
More than one side to Littlefinger? So, what side is there aside from creeper? Because that's all I'm seeing from Gillen. :p I'm pretty sure it's all
anyone should see from the guy. He ooooooozes creepiness and nothing else whatsoever in every scene.
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Book Littlefinger and television show Littlefinger are very different characters. They’re probably the character that’s most different from the book to the television show. There was a a line in a recent episode of the show where, he’s not even present, but two people are talking about him and someone says ‘Well, no one trusts Littlefinger’ and ‘Littlefinger has no friends.’ And that’s true of television show Littlefinger, but it’s certainly not true of book Littlefinger. Book Littlefinger, in the book, everybody trusts him. Everybody trusts him because he seems powerless, and he’s very friendly, and he’s very helpful. He helps Ned Stark when he comes to town, he helps Tyrion, you know, he helps the Lannisters. He’s always ready to help, to raise money. He helps Robert, Robert depends on him to finance all of his banquets and tournaments and his other follies, because Littelfinger can always raise money. So, he’s everybody’s friend. But of course there’s the Machiavellian thing. He’s, you know, everybody trusts him, everybody depends on him. He’s not a threat. He’s just this helpful, funny guy, who you can call upon to do whatever you want, and to raise money, and he ingratiates himself with people and rises higher and higher as a result.
It seems they've just written him this way. I also read on another forum that he's a lot more varied in his acting when in other roles and definitely is
capable of doing other things than being creepy but in this show it just seems to be a requirement in all his scenes to be a sleaze.