

On “Beyond the Wall,” she confronted her sister almost immediately, and made a bunch of shadowy threats to use the note to ruin her credibility with the Northern houses.Īlso Read Ramin Djawadi and Brandon Campbell Bring Their Blockbuster Composing Talents to Amazon’s New World Though the note was written under duress, Arya takes this as evidence that Sansa was always a sneaky narcissist more interested in a nice wedding than in protecting the family honor. She’s also a jerk now? Last night’s episode, “Beyond the Wall,” continued some drama from the previous week: Arya found a note penned by Sansa all the way back in season one, in which she begged Robb Stark to bend the knee following the execution of their father, Ned. Her reappearance at Winterfell, where the surviving Starks have retaken their ancestral home, has coincided with a clear characterization shift: once a bright-eyed, earnest trickster, she now squints a lot and talks in a low, murder-y cadence not dissimilar from her mentor Jaqen H’ghar. Many characters on this show have gone through a bunch of bullshit, and of the still-living protagonists she’s gotten some of the worst of it.
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Poor Arya, who spent the last however many years eating rats, going blind, learning how to be a death ninja, and maybe murdering Ed Sheeran. In the midst of this ceaseless (and largely enjoyable) action, I do have to complain about one thing: Arya Stark sucks now. Stuff is supposed to happen in fiction, especially fantasy fiction, and anyone complaining there’s too much going on is probably no fun. What else are they supposed to do, when there’s less than ten episodes ever, and so many storylines to resolve? Go complain about it on your podcast, will you.Īnyway, the show’s newly compressed timelines have mostly given us a bunch of cool shit to look at: Daenerys crossing the Narrow Sea with her super army (two episodes before it’s destroyed, lol), the dragons burning a bunch of ice zombies before one of them gets absolutely wrecked from long range by an ice spear. Once, characters took entire seasons to cross from one end of Westeros to the other now, Daenerys can fly to the Wall from Dragonstone in about fifteen minutes of episodic time.

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Martin’s yet-unfinished fantasy series makes less narrative sense than a Qarthian prophecy, having abandoned all logic as it speeds toward its conclusion. By now, critics and fans of Game of Thronesare coming around to the undeniable truth: The HBO adaptation of George R.R.
