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Banned deucer.
there was a great theory that the arya we saw in s06e07 was actually jaqen h'ghar which the show sadly did not go through with
basically it said that jaqen telling the waif to go kill arya was actually a test of the waif, who is real shit at being a faceless man since she takes obvious pleasure in hurting arya and has strong opinions that faceless men usually don't possess. and she's kinda bad at following orders to their intent. so jaqen disguises himself as arya (which we've seen him do before in season 5) and sees if the waif follows his orders to not make "arya" suffer - which she does the opposite of, stabbing fake arya in the belly and twisting the knife so she feels as much pain as possible while bleeding out.
this theory would also explain arya's attitude of cocky bullshit in episode 7, after episode 6 ends with her hiding in the dark with needle drawn, clearly ready to be attacked at any time. and why arya is right-handed in episode 7 but usually left-handed in the rest of the show.
but nope d&d went the simplest route possible and turned what would have been a great fight scene into "lol i was blind and fought in dark and won"
fuck the entire arya arc this season. i mean you can't just kill her off because she's been on her own training with a guild of assassins for 2 seasons...but her return to westeros better be fucking epic
also WaterBomb i did not feel like the jon snow revival was contrived at all. it was set up pretty obviously with melisandre coming to the wall, sure, but you can't call it fanservice - the books also drop some serious hints, and melisandre says she sees jon fighting at winterfell which is clearly gonna be next episode. the hound's revival looked contrived in the show - in the books it's hinted at VERY strongly - but i thought the whole peaceful community thing was actually done quite nicely, and ian mcshane killed his part as the fast and loose septon.
ladies and gentlemen, get hype for bastardbowl, the warmup preceding westeros' MAIN EVENT, CLEGANEBOWL (postponed indefinitely)
fuck tommen. hope he goes up in wildfyre
basically it said that jaqen telling the waif to go kill arya was actually a test of the waif, who is real shit at being a faceless man since she takes obvious pleasure in hurting arya and has strong opinions that faceless men usually don't possess. and she's kinda bad at following orders to their intent. so jaqen disguises himself as arya (which we've seen him do before in season 5) and sees if the waif follows his orders to not make "arya" suffer - which she does the opposite of, stabbing fake arya in the belly and twisting the knife so she feels as much pain as possible while bleeding out.
this theory would also explain arya's attitude of cocky bullshit in episode 7, after episode 6 ends with her hiding in the dark with needle drawn, clearly ready to be attacked at any time. and why arya is right-handed in episode 7 but usually left-handed in the rest of the show.
but nope d&d went the simplest route possible and turned what would have been a great fight scene into "lol i was blind and fought in dark and won"
fuck the entire arya arc this season. i mean you can't just kill her off because she's been on her own training with a guild of assassins for 2 seasons...but her return to westeros better be fucking epic
also WaterBomb i did not feel like the jon snow revival was contrived at all. it was set up pretty obviously with melisandre coming to the wall, sure, but you can't call it fanservice - the books also drop some serious hints, and melisandre says she sees jon fighting at winterfell which is clearly gonna be next episode. the hound's revival looked contrived in the show - in the books it's hinted at VERY strongly - but i thought the whole peaceful community thing was actually done quite nicely, and ian mcshane killed his part as the fast and loose septon.
ladies and gentlemen, get hype for bastardbowl, the warmup preceding westeros' MAIN EVENT, CLEGANEBOWL (postponed indefinitely)
fuck tommen. hope he goes up in wildfyre