Game of Thrones

Started by ArtificialGlory142 pages

Originally posted by marwash22
considerably more than Rickon.

Yeah, and not just in quantity, but in quality as well.

Also, why do you guys think Jaqen looked so pleased and proud when Arya refused to become 'no one'? You'd think he'd be pissed.

Originally posted by ArtificialGlory
Yeah, and not just in quantity, but in quality as well.

Also, why do you guys think Jaqen looked so pleased and proud when Arya refused to become 'no one'? You'd think he'd be pissed.


I think he always knew Arya wasn't cut out to sacrifice her sense of self, but that she'd be great in other ways. It's like if you're an English teacher and you'd like a student to become a great writer, but they end up becoming a great mathematician instead. You're probably still proud of them even though they didn't follow your path. Jaqen is probably just pleased that she's becoming a badass.

Originally posted by ArtificialGlory
Yeah, and not just in quantity, but in quality as well.

Also, why do you guys think Jaqen looked so pleased and proud when Arya refused to become 'no one'? You'd think he'd be pissed.

Happy? That smirk looked kind of annoyed with a hint of acceptance to me. After all, she killed one of his faceless women and deserted.

I think he was ambivalent.

He seems pretty zen about most things.

Jaqen was happy because Arya is dead and his faceless smug girl is wearing Aryas face.

sooooo, can Arya use the disguise techniques now, or is there something special about the faces that are in the chamber? Like, can she just cut off a random person's face now, or is there Many-Face-God magic involved that she doesn't have access to?

Originally posted by ArtificialGlory
Yeah, and not just in quantity, but in quality as well.

Also, why do you guys think Jaqen looked so pleased and proud when Arya refused to become 'no one'? You'd think he'd be pissed.

This show isn't disappointing.

It would've been much cooler had Arya worn the smug girls face back to Jaqen and pretended that she killed Arya

Originally posted by Firefly218
It would've been much cooler had Arya worn the smug girls face back to Jaqen and pretended that she killed Arya
Then when he didn't expect it she'd rip off the face mask and be like I'm Arya Stark of winterfell ***** and thrust needle into his heart

That would have been completely transparent from our vantange point. We already knew Arya has the advantage fighting in the dark, so if the next scene we see is the Waif returning to Jaqen, we all would have know it was actually Arya wearing the Waif's face. The only way that scenario works in a dramatic sense is if we see Arya look at the candle, but we werent shown the light going out.

Originally posted by marwash22
That would have been completely transparent from our vantange point. We already knew Arya has the advantage fighting in the dark, so if the next scene we see is the Waif returning to Jaqen, we all would have know it was actually Arya wearing the Waif's face. The only way that scenario works in a dramatic sense is if we see Arya look at the candle, but we werent shown the light going out.
👆 Even if the audience can anticipate something doesn't mean it's still not awesome though but sure

And another very long Arya Stark storyline ends in nothing... They better kill her off sometime soon.

Originally posted by queeq
And another very long Arya Stark storyline ends in nothing... They better kill her off sometime soon.
That's like saying they should kill off tony stark because iron man 2 and 3 weren't great. We still love the character even if the story arch isn't great.

Originally posted by Firefly218
That's like saying they should kill off tony stark because iron man 2 and 3 weren't great. We still love the character even if the story arch isn't great.
I don't love the character.

Originally posted by NemeBro
I don't love the character.
But you do love the mountain who has the emotional range of a wall.

Originally posted by Firefly218
That's like saying they should kill off tony stark because iron man 2 and 3 weren't great. We still love the character even if the story arch isn't great.

I thought Iron Man 3 was great. But at least his stories went places. Area just goes the distance (a long trail with the Hound - a long long training session in the House of the Faceless God) and then... it just stops.

GoT has us invest a lot of time in this character but her stories never go anywhere.

Yeah I'm not really sure what manner of arc we're supposed to take away from Arya. I kinda got the impression that the play she watched re-started her desire to return home. But I never really felt like she truly let that go in the first place, so the "reminder" felt pretty flat. The whole assassin training subplot (if it's really over) seems like it was just a "eh, why not" from her POV.

Been a little disappointed with this season so far. I think I'm getting annoyed that the show has so many subplots and characters going at once and nothing is ever really satisfied. There were several pointless scenes in the lastest episode and I'm pissed that they killed Ian McShane in the first episode he appeared in. He was already more interesting than most of the characters on the show.

The Hound tearing people to shreds, though... 👆 There needs to be much, much more of that.