Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon!

[Pheesh]

I'm glad Arya's alive but the whole thing really fell flat. They had to do too much nonsense to even get her to a point where she could fight the Nameless Girl in the dark, and the whole chase scene felt like standard GoT sadism. Arya is still my favourite character but they should have done better with her.

Alternatively, Arya jumps down onto those stairs, rolls the whole way down creating a bloody fruit salad and lands in agony on the floor. The Girl closes in on her for a killing blow and then BAM, Syrio steps in between her and Arya, says something bad-ass and hilarious in his accent and then goes ham. I should be writing the smurfing show.

[Psychotic]

I can write a better GoT than you because I'd have the good sense to avoid the Braavos arc altogether. Oh, she needs to learn to give up revenge? Then what was the point of hanging out with the Hound? Wrap it up there with some revelations that "Oh my gosh, I'm turning into him!" and have Arya decide kicking White Walker tail is more important than revenge after seeing the BWB. Arya heads off north, gives Bran a hi-five and it turns out Needle is Valyrian Steel so she's chopping walkers left and right. Then suddenly she slips in the snow and is about to die at the hands of the Night King! I guess he stabs her a whole bunch in the guts and she somehow survives because magic. And then out of nowhere the ghost of Syrio Forel shows up, says "What do we say to the God of Death?" and then he and Arya both stab the Night King (it turns out his wooden sword was Valryian steel too) as they say in unison "Not today".

[Pheesh]

I can write a better GoT than you because I'd have the good sense to avoid the Braavos arc altogether. Oh, she needs to learn to give up revenge? Then what was the point of hanging out with the Hound? Wrap it up there with some revelations that "Oh my gosh, I'm turning into him!" and have Arya decide kicking White Walker tail is more important than revenge after seeing the BWB. Arya heads off north, gives Bran a hi-five and it turns out Needle is Valyrian Steel so she's chopping walkers left and right. Then suddenly she slips in the snow and is about to die at the hands of the Night King! I guess he stabs her a whole bunch in the guts and she somehow survives because magic. And then out of nowhere the ghost of Syrio Forel shows up, says "What do we say to the God of Death?" and then he and Arya both stab the Night King (it turns out his wooden sword was Valryian steel too) as they say in unison "Not today".

Yeah...but now she can do all that... in the dark!

Also he's not dead!

[blackmage_nuke]

I personally I think all they had to do was not let her get stabbed 3 times and have her see the waif, react but get stabbed once before rolling into the river.

book spoilerThough they probably only sent her to Braavos in the first place becuase they didn't know how much book content they'd be cutting out. Three or so other plot points intersect with Braavos most of them were canceled so it just makes her plot isolated from everything else.

Personally I like the house of the dead and I like the city of Braavos as a concept so Im glad we got to see more of it even if it didn't advance any plots.

Another thing that bothered me is Jaqen said "Finally a girl is no one" after he just saw her betray all of his beliefs while she's pointing her old sword at him, she more someone than ever before. The only acceptable reasoning I can find behind this is if by "Finally a girl is no one" he means Arya is dead and when she replies "A girl is Arya Stark" she means I am Arya now and this was all a plot to find out information about Arya to take her place and have her assasinate someone.
Or waif was still in training and when he says a girl is no one he means her training is complete, that's why she took off her own face and was already impersonating Arya

[Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World]

You all suck.

Arya plotline is best plotline.

[Shaibana]

with Dondarion really being back in the picture now, I hope that a certain character will apear. that would sure stir things up.

phew.. dodged a bullet there. just when we all thought Pod might die it was all just a gag in the end. thank god..

I feel sad for Edmure betraying his own banner etc

[Jinx]

You all suck.

Arya plotline is best plotline.

Hahahah, really? Maisie Williams kills it, though. She's what has made it at least bearable.

I will say the cutting to the HoBaW didn't bother me too much. They were fighting in the DARK. It's not like there's actually anything to see. Also, I really do hope the Waif killed Arya because it would actually redeem this boring ass plot, but I find it unlikely given that we saw her face on the wall. Also, what motives does she have? What is she going to do as Arya? Frankly, we just don't know enough about her or what she wants for that to happen. As it is, I never fully understood why she even hated Arya so much.

[Night Fury]

At this point, I'd honestly just like Sansa and Arya to reunite in Winterfell after they've booted the Boltons.

[Shaibana]

Ffs stark kids!
Terminator waif!

10/10 would play http://9gag.com/gag/aqL9nb7

[Del Murder]

Arya's storyline doesn't make any sense but thankfully it has to be over. This isn't a JJ Abrams show so I don't think they are using the facesnatching angle. Get her out of there.

Cool to see the Brotherhood back and I like that they addressed the fact that the Brotherhood wouldn't allow those guys going around killing random groups of people. Hound has become one of the most interesting characters this season and he's only been in two episodes.

I'm the last person to complain about pacing being too fast, but I felt the Riverrun stuff was over too quickly. It was cool to see them resolve it in a way other than you would expect (as in a giant battle) but the Blackfish got an offscreen death that didn't do him justice and Brienne's involvement was pretty much pointless. It was nice to see the old Jamie who pushes kids off towers is still around though.

[Ayen]

^ I need those GoT games in my life.

I really don't even mind the conclusion of her finding there's more out there than just getting revenge. There's such an easy fix for the Braavos storyline that honestly wouldn't have been asking much. Just have her lure the waif in the pitch black room from the start, do the trout with the candle, have her tell off Jaqen AND THEN cut to her going around town throwing money at people and getting passage back home. At least then it would make sense and no one would look like an idiot. Except for maybe Jaqen for just letting her walk, but eeh.

As for that Arya really being the waif, highly doubt it. Season Six has been largely predictable so far, and I have doubts D&D could even come up with something like that. No, that's the real Arya Stark and she's coming home.

Sklar Grey wrote a song for her and everything:



Also, Blackfish dying off screen was bulltrout. But at least this episode sorted out the BWB confusion that happened last week. All the stuff with Pod, Bronn, Jaime, Brie, Tryion, Cersei, and Sandor were good. When Dany came in I half expected her to be like, "All right, which one of you smurfed up?"

[Freya]

I think maybe the Arya stuff is more lackluster because of the show stuff. There are far more characters and plotlines over in Essos in the books that they completely cut in the show. So who knows, her storyline may have some relevancy we don't know about bookwise. But the show, being different and treading new territory, I don't think it works as well.

That's fine, I just wish they handled it a little better via the show. I'm all down for sexy jesus and ninja skills.

[Shaibana]

i dont see that whole waif-is-arya theory either..
why would she go to westeros to be arya? what would she gain?

[Ayen]

i dont see that whole waif-is-arya theory either..
why would she go to westeros to be arya? what would she gain?

Jon Snow.

She wants that Jon Snow booty.

[Shaibana]

i dont see that whole waif-is-arya theory either..
why would she go to westeros to be arya? what would she gain?

Jon Snow.

She wants that Jon Snow booty.

sounds legit