morenoingrato said:
Something that occurred to me: The reason Varys was so useles, while Littlefinger was not as cunning and calculative as beforeis because (sadly) the show keeps going away from the Iron Throne, to the far less compelling White Walkers. So it makes sense in the mind of the writers those characters took a backseat, the Game is not the focus anymore. |
Allow me to quote you one more time, but I read this earlier and I thought it was relevant to what you are saying:
"But all along, Thrones has shown little patience for explaining the system of magic underlying its world. (This is becoming more of an issue as supernatural forces move closer to the center of the story; see all the confusion about why the undead can’t find a way to kill six guys in the middle of a lake.)
Other oracle-like characters such as Melisandre and Thoros, it should be noted, also have been circumscribed by Thrones. Both serve the capricious Lord of Light, both clearly have limits on their powers, and both have been sent away from the main action at crucial moments (Thoros recently to the grave; Melisandre to Essos for most all of Season 7). The arms-distance treatment of such characters obviously helps the show tell its story, but it also fits with Thrones’s larger themes. Magic is a terrible thing, and the only thing that’s kept it from destroying the world till now has been its scarcity—which troublingly, over the course of the story, has started to become surfeit."
