#batfinger

I really feel like we don’t talk about this scene enough.

Literally THIRTY SECONDS of Batfinger walking around the brothel set looking nostalgic while sad music plays.

Batfinger: I’m sorry about the locale.

Dowager Countess!Olenna: No, you’re not.

BF: It felt like the safest place.

DC: Not for your clientele, clearly.

BF: It was an establishment like no other. The sheer range of appetites catered to; desires that didn’t even exist until we invented them.

DC: You’ve always been rather impressed with yourself, haven’t you?

This should have also been in our “most meta line” category.

I DON’T EITHER.

I have a theory that it’s a concept that people think sounds smart? But the second you actually think about it, it just falls apart.

And the way it was delivered was just SO over-the-top and hacktacular. Ahh Batfinger, never change.

Actually, that reminds me, re: ‘Middlefinger’ vs. ‘Batfinger.’

‘Batfinger’ has been a fandom name for awhile, because of the way his voice and accent changes all the time and how it sounds just as terrible as Christian Bale’s Batman voice. Which you might argue is the most interesting thing about Show!Finger’s character. Plus this season kind of strengthened that with his magical teleportation powers.

But ‘Middlefinger’ is just absolutely hilarious to me, with both the rhyme and how the character's existence is pretty much D&D giving us a giant middle finger with how illogically he’s used (or his horrible and out of place info-dumps).

The most compelling reasoning for sticking with Batfinger was this:

“I always sing the Goldfinder tune in my head when I read Batfinger and it doesn’t work with Middlefinger”

And that reasoning cracks me up. Most seemed to favor the switch though. But I got an anon that I think settles the debate:

Anonymous said:batfinger is the one who can teleport across westeros and makes elaborate "schemes" while middlefinger is the one that is constantly backstabbing and abandoning people for no real reason.

Remember when he came up with elaborate plan to get Sansa out of King’s Landing, in which she got implicated for murder, and then decided to turn around and write to Roose fucking Bolton (who gets all his power from House Lannister) that he’s got undesirable #1 and hey let’s marry her to your son (who btw is ONLY a “Bolton” because of a decree from King Tommen AKA the second House Bolton goes against the throne, Ramsay’s back to being a bastard). Why? Because...“revenge.”

Remember when Batfinger said he was a gambling man who thought Stannis was going to win against Roose? But then he just plunked Sansa down in Winterfell anyway, because otherwise how could he possibly get Carol to agree to let him take troops there? It’s not as if she’s completely uninformed about what’s going on in the North, or that Batfinger could have just invaded after the battle anyway and then later been like, “they were plotting treason, Carol!” But like, apparently this plan was foolproof, it’s just that he didn’t do background research on Ramsay. Who would, amirite? It’s not like there was a trail of flayed bodies leading up to Winterfell.

Remember when Batfinger was “summoned” back to King’s Landing by Carol who then had literally nothing to tell him? And he negotiated a deal to become Warden of the North iff he kills Sansa? Which is so clearly what he wants to do and everything...

And then remember when Batfinger, after getting that deal from Carol, turns around and helps Olenna frame Carol for treason, making literally everything he just did completely moot?

It’s very tempting to Honeypot stuff for Batfinger to try to make sense out of all his actions, because he does seem to be working against himself all the time.

Right now he’s… 

Working with the Vale Lords. I’m not sure what he’s doing for them, but he seems to think he controls their military assets. 

Working with Sansa to work with Stannis and make her “wardeness” of the North. 

Working with the Boltons to make an alliance with Sansa so she can control them… somehow and by extension he can and thus control the North. 

Throwing Sansa under the bus by working with Carol and using the Vale forces to take the North for himself. 

Working with Olenna to use the Faith Taliban to take down Carol. 

I’m sure I’m missing one.

You can argue that 5 was just to cover his own ass because of the whole regicide thing that Olenna has on him (that she would never use…) but the first four suggest that he really wants the North… for some reason. But yes, every person he’s working with, he is also working against. 

Like, he’s trying to make sure that he comes out on top no matter who wins, right? But, like, he’s working with everyone against all the other people he’s also working with so….