canadiaggie said:
The Porkchop Express said:
Considering they got away with poisoning Jon Arryn and had Pycelle in their back pocket, you'd think Cersei could have dumped a bucket of the Tears of Lys into Robert's drink basically any time given how much that dummy was drinking all day long.
Technically I thought Littlefinger convinced Lysa to poison Jon Arryn and blame it on the Lannisters. I like the theory that Sweetrobin is Littlefinger's *******
I'd never heard that theory and it didn't occur to me, but it's funny.
I think we'd have heard Lysa mention it--or at least the possibility of it--while she was blurting out the rundown of every despicable thing she did that launched the war of the 5 kings.
It's worth noting, imo, that Littlefinger's plan was on par with Palpatine's process for taking over the galaxy. Create a bunch of chaos and patiently await the opportunity to profit from it.
If he'd been successful, he'd have been Lord Protector of the Vale, wed to Sansa after finding a way to eliminate Jon and therefore de-facto Warden of the North, and he'd have been powerful enough for a war of conquest against the Royalists, and could've done the same thing Robert did.
He got impressively far along in that endeavor before Arya sliced his throat open.