So basically this storyline was filler.
I mean she learned to be a bad bitch. So no.
>>70909649
Its their lazy way of going "look now she can kill people and it'll make sense"
I guess they can't kill her off and her contract stipulates a certain amount of screen time.
Arya is dead
>>70909649
Not quite.
>If she had stayed in Westeros she would have been caught by someone and died.
>She learned how to observe people and find their weakness.
>She learned how to be someone she's not, blend in, poison/kill someone and not get detected.
>She learned how to peel faces and use them to hide her identity even further.
>She learned how to take a shit ton of pain for a little girl.
>She learned how to fight w/o seeing.
>She was away from Westeros long enough for her half brother and sister to come into power and now has a reason to back there.
Watch Arya die next episode.
yes just like Danny's story for 5 books before Aegon came
>>70909751
more like "arya has figured out that killing is dumb"
she'll join the sparrows and the hound will protect her against the mountain
The show is nothing but filler. lame ass show.
>>70909649
it makes a bit more sense in the books (presuming that the book story line will end in a similar fashion, if at all)
part of Arya's conflict is her perception of assuming new roles at every turn in order to survive
she gives all of these roles names, and yet none are her removing her more and more from the her that is Arya Stark
this is compounded by the fact that every time she thinks she can go back to being Arya Stark, something horrible happens to her (abducted by the brothers without banners for ransom, the Red Wedding, etc.)
I imagine that in a way, Jaqen recognized this and believed that she could complete the transition to no one
this season has concluded that conflict, Arya has decided not to become no one and give up her true self, and is going to return to her country as Arya Stark, no matter what consequences it brings
>>70909711
>>70909751
To what possible end that was worth spending so many hours on?
>>70909649
Did Noah get a lot of money, or something?
How else would she get the ability to kill everyone on that list?
You need to be some plot armor magic assassin to do that shit
OH WAIT THAT IS WHAT SHE IS NOW
Yes, yes, well done a girl, well done a girl
HOWEVER
>>70910249
Wow.
That both makes perfect sense, and also makes me wonder why so much time was spent on this very minor theme, no matter how well developed it is.
Is she going to become the Westerosi version of Dany? I highly doubt it. What possible function was there in building this character up so much when there's nothing for her to do.
What is this show and why is spoony in it
her going there had purpose; getting out of westeros and learning to kill. also abandoning her name but eventually being moved enough to take it back
but the screentime devoted to her character was boring. would have been more compelling if there was something the audience wanted to see each time the narrative visited Dorne instead of just constant cliffhangers
>>70909875
training arc
pretty based, desu
>>70910371
I don't think she'll amass armies like Dany
she'll probably do something on her own that either directly or indirectly assists Jon and Sansa
I'm not sure if she'll join up with them or not
>>70910306
for her to show her bad pussy
ITT: People who don't understand themes of self discovery, identity, lost innocen, or children in general.
>>70910697
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgHNtzxO0y8
You now realize Arya hasn't been compelling since season 2.
>>70910836
Bullshit. Arya and the Hound shared some of the best moments in the show
>>70909751
she could already kill people and make sense, she had a list of vengence
>>70910697
I don't think that people don't understand I just think the story so completely failed to resonate with the viewer it makes the audience question if they're missing something because seasons 1-3 have conditioned them to expect such quality content that they can't believe how bad the story has gotten so they're in denial and blame themselves. Becuase the writing itself is so lazy and obvious lately they really isn't anything for the viewer to miss unless they're concocting their own fan fiction in their heads to try and fill the gaps the show is missing
god that storyline turned out so much worse than i had imagined. loved that guy at first, and then suddenly ayy lmao i'm a monk that does nothing all day.
but then again that's like the whole show really.
>>70911077
>liking a cult assassin who is very clearly a psychopath
is Tyrion your favorite character too for being a Lannister with a heart of gold?
>>70911077
Also this, at least syrio was a compelling character who had intersting stories to tell the viewer each episode instead of A GIRL HAS NO NAME LMAO x1000. The guy is like an action figure he has three lines ad neasuem
>>70910988
Can you cite a single scene that deepened her character? No? Yhata because she was nothing more than Le Whacky Lolita XD playing off Mr. Gruff Nofun
>>70911076
>>70911225
Or maybe it's because the audience had 20 years of people reading and exploring the source material in the first few seasons that it was simpler to understand.
Pretty sure there's nothing fan fictiony about someone coming up with the themes I mentioned from this season. It just takes a miniscule of brains to figure out the Lady Crane/Arya relationship.
Literally the theater scenes. It made her set aside her escapism. It made memories and unfinished business resurface and brought her back in tune with her Arya Stark side.
>>70911076
to be fair, i do think there has been a dawning in the audiences collective minds, starting with the previous season, realizing the show really has gone to shit. after three seasons, the show has simply fizzled with the exception of one or two spectacular scenes per season.
>>70911225
>The time she killed a man for bragging about Robb's death.
The first time she murdered someone and not for self defense reasons.
>The time she killed the guy who took Needle from her.
The first time killing for the sake of revenge.
>Almost hitting the Hound with a rock and he let her have a chance to.
She learned to restrain herself in times of anger and know when she is in over her head.
>>70911225
Oh, specifically the Arya and Hound scenes.
When they pretended to be a father-daughter pair in the Riverlands and got shelter and food from the one family. Then the Hound betrayed the family. It was a lesson in the harsh reality of being alone and desprerate.
Arya being led away from the Twins by the Hound. It taught her that not everyone is how they appear and that the biggest shit in the Seven Kingdoms might not be so bad.
Him teaching her the best places to stab someone. Physically helpful.
Killing the Frey men after the RW as a closure/revenge. It's outright murder.
That arch is literally just an unorthodx 12 year old girl learning her diminishing place in the world with an unorthodx father figure learning his diminsih place in the world. If you don't think there's any character development or lessons learned along the way, then maybe you don't need "Previously On Game Of Thrones". You'd need the characters breaking the 4th wall and outright tellnig you how they're day was and how it made them feel,
>>70910343
Such a great assasin she stood around obliviously waiting to get jumped when she knew the faceless men would be out to get her
>>70909875
She is so fucking ugly lmao
>>70909649
>she was able to kill waif and sneak up on a MAn
baka she better be a ninja when she gets back to westeros or the West beyond Westeros :^))))))
>>70909875
is this the only angle at which she looks like a normal human and not some in-bred frog thing
>>70909875
>She learned how to take a shit
whoa whoa whoa, she had to go to the faceless men to learn how to take a shit?
>ton of pain for a little girl.
oh.
>>70911409
>ywn paint her face with your penis milk
>>70911736
She looks almost cute there as a ruffian.
>>70909875
>she learned to be a mary sue
k
How does one shrug off several gut stab wounds and a massive blood loss?
>>70913261
Young constitution? That being said. Y'all need to rewatch the first two episodes of Season 1. The Direwolves go from pups to fully grown huge dogs in an episode. Time skips aren't done well, but we honesty don't know how long she was in that house before Waif found her. Enough to be healed enoughthat it took falling down stairs to re open her wound which was probably 3/4 healed. I know you're all experts on stab wounds but people have survived worse. Not defending Dumb and Dumber's writing cuz it was shit and they could have done so many other things but....
>>70913261
how does one barely get out of bed and then jump out of a second story window and slowly walk away from someone sprinting after them?
>>70913426
Did the actress not say the play was moving to another city and ask Arya along? Don't know if she specified a timeframe though.
>>70909649
>a girl has wasted my fucking time
>>70913572
Can't remember. Hell if i'm watching that shit episode again.
>>70910591
She is going to meet Mel again, assuming she wasn't bullshitting. Of course Mel may not be with Jon at that point.
>>70911225
>every scene must "deepen" a character
>>70909875
>her half brother and sister to come into power and now has a reason to back there.
???
Jon is her cousin and as far we know she's full sisters with Sansa.
>>70913729
settle down bookfag until it's official revealed Jon is still a half brother. and yes Sansa is a full sister i didn't word that right i guess.
>>70913426
>wound 3/4th healed
>after her stomach was stabbed, bowels, and various parts of her intestines were stabbed
>after she fell into shit and piss infested dirty water, seeping into all of her very open and bleeding wounds
>healed just fine
okay
>>70909649
They needed some other element in her faceless plot. Maybe a letter correspondence with Jon or something. The whole thing was teasing, and no pay off. She's basically where she was at the end of season 4, except now she can maybe stab someone after the sun goes down.
>>70909751
This makes me so sadbecause it's true.
>>70912994
>she learned to be a mary sue
This desu
>>70912994
>people calling Rey in TFA a Mary Sue because she bypassed all character development and can do anything without training
>Arya has 2 seasons of training for character development
>still call her Mary Sue
>>70909649
It's filler in the books too because George doesn't know what the fuck he's doing. Not D&D's fault in this case.
>>70914429
Right?
>Wants to learn swordfighting. Sucks at first
>Wants to save her father. Can't.
>Gets captured by Lannisters. Can't escape w/o help.
>Gets captured by BwB. Only escapes because of luck.
>Gets captured by the Hound. Can't escape until Brienne of FUCKING Tarth beats her captor.
>Goes through grueling challenges at the house of black and white getting beat by sticks.
>Goes blind and has to be a beggar in a town half a world away from home.
>Only beats Waif because of her blind training and a bit of luck.
Mary Sue. Okay.
>>70912994
>character is given time to develop a skill
>that makes her a mary sue
Jesus Christ shut the fuck up.
>>70912994
how does a girl who has fucking earned all her shit a mary sue?
danaerys is the mary sue not arya
>>70913593
he prolly got some dirty underwear to sniff out of it
>>70913979
Milk of the puppy is heroin magic, it cures everything from deep stab wounds to herpes
she would be dead if she let herself be taken by Brienne. She's clearly a huge fuck up. Not one oath she made went correct.
Arya going to braavos helped shape her
her storyline and is about the only one that hasn't been completely destroyed by the incompetence of retarded jews known as D&D.
>>70915060
kek
The entire arch was so poorly written that it's almost comical.
>Arya start training with Jaqen
>she develops the basics of what is being no one, both physically and psychologically
>she oversteps her boundaries of what she can do and gets punished with blindness
Season 5 did a good job (and I can't believe I'm saying that) setting what was this whole "being no one" was about and what Arya would need to become an assassin of this cult.
The season 6 came and literally destroyed everything.
>she clearly is still someone, but somehow the magic water does work and give her back her sight
>a bunch of scenes of her getting destroyed by Waif, showing that the gap of skill is quite big
>she's sent on a mission to kill someone
>she refuses because she's still someone, Arya Stark to be more accurate, and decides to escape
And this is where things get crazy.
>at first Arya does the smart thing and hides in some abandoned crypt
>then she goes out like nothing is happening, despite knowing that she's against assassins that can take any face and ambush her
>against all odds she gets ambushed by Waif and gets stabbed in the gut twice, the second one while twisting the knife
>she survives and despite being severely injured, escapes fast enough just to not get tracked or anything
>she gets patched up and takes milk of the puppy
>Waif arrives
>she run faster than Waif for a mile at least, despite being injured and being chased by a better trained assassin
>then she goes to her hiding spot for some sort of ambush I guess
>fights her in the dark and defeats her despite being injured, but lets say that she had the upper hand since she had all that blind training and she had a better weapon
>then, instead of escaping she goes directly to the house of black and white exposing her like an idiot, put the head of Waif in one of the spots and threatens Jaqen because she can
>Jaqen has a ragging erection because of this and let her go, despite being against all of what he tried to teach her
If Arya had been in Braavos for a few episodes, /tv/ would have said
>hurr durr arc ruined blah blah her training was rushed no character development DABID
Since they actually took time slowly building her character and skills(her storyline could afford to be a little slow, there was alot going on in other arcs) everyone here is bitching about it. Classic /tvirgins/ complaining about everything. I have loved every second of her story and look forward to Best Stark and Best Girl finally destroying her enemies.Fuck the haters, bow down bitches. Arya Fucking Stark is going home
>>70915522
Arya's plot armor is so ridiculous that she can fuck the plot if she wants, it's not like she will get killed or anything.
>>70909711
She's not going to stand a chance against a common foot soldier and she already willing to murder prior to even leaving for Braavos. Literally nothing of worth has happened.
>>70913593
my favorite part was that, true to character, it was clear that he did not give a shit when Arya just busted out of there
she walks out and he has this face like "I'm not even mad thats dank as fuck."
A year of a man's life was flushed down the toilet and a man couldn't be less rustled
There is no way GRRM is actually telling them the truth of what's really going on because they're clearly making changes on the fly. Let's focus on the Sand Snakes... oh wait, no one likes them? Ok, we'll write them out of the show. Arya goes to Braavos to learn to be an assassin... oh wait, everyone is bored by it? Ok we'll have her leave next season. Let's have Bran be a tree god who can see everything... oh wait, that won't work well for tv? Let's just have him escape.
Nothing adds up to the greater overall plot. TWoW better deliver.
>>70915669
Sexy murder Jesus works in mysterious ways.
>>70909649
Arya has Faceless Man powers now you fucking moron.
>>70915797
That's what makes her such a Mary Sue. She has the powers without any of the requirements for being a faceless man. Is just lazy writing.
>>70915850
>has to let her pet direwolf go for fear of said direwolf being executed
>Father murdered
>Is a homeless refugee for whole seasons, with
various kidnappers controlling her at different times
>Brother and Mother murdered
>Castle where she was raised burned to the ground
>Has literally crossed off only name from her list, the least important name
>Mary Sue
You guys must really hate female characters youre not allowed to fuck. I cant thnk of any other reason anyone would call her a Mary Sue
>>70909649
Well, she was never gonna be able to join them. They are a neutral group, while she just wanted to learn how to fight to get revenge for her family. She wasn't about to entirely give up who she is.
She could only use them to learn how to fight and survive.
>>70909875
>>70914769
This exactly, character progression!
What is it exactly with people not caring about the journey in the story. All the charater development and stuff that shows how they are able to do things... Why do these people rather skip right to the end? Why even follow a show like this then?
Just go watch a movie where all the character training is compressed into a short music/song montage then.
>>70915850
How do you figure. Arya did the equivalent of taking every college course needed to graduate and then not following through with the ceremony. She knows how to be no one w/o being a mindless drone who kills whoever the cult wants her to kill.
>>70915980
But she hasn't learned much practical from them.
>>70915977
I'm pretty sure when this series has ended, someone is gonna cut the entire show into a 2 or 3 hour long movie telling the story. Cutting away all "Filler content" as they call it. Only following people that survive long enough to be importen to the larger parts of the plot.
Aryas training will be kinda like Disney's Mulan "Lets get down to buisness!" bit.
>>70915963
>she had such rough times, she deserves the power-up
You can't be this retarded. Please, tell me I'm the one not understanding your logic here, because it looks like you're saying something along those lines.
>>70915980
I mean it doesn't look like she actually had the powers. More like she had some training and learned how to lie better. It would be bullshit if she actually had faceless man powers considering she's still someone.
>>70916145
Are you literally retarded? Where did I say she deserves a power-up? Im just saying, its ridiculous to call her a Mary Sue, who by definition, is a character who has everything go right for her. I dont give two fucks about if she deserves her power-up, she is the farthest thing from a Mary Sue regardless. Her whole life has been fuckup after fuckup by both her family and her
>>70911789
... You're not wrong
>>70916216
Then it was me, my bad.
She has been a mary sue the entire season though.
>>70916145
But she literally used a face to kill Meryn fucking Trant. And yeah the past few episodes of her arc were shit but Jagen said she was no one what's to stop her from skinning faces and using them like she did on Trant? Seriously. I'm asking.
>>70909649
Did anyone else think it was retarded when the waif was disguised as an old woman and literally removed a mask to reveal her real face.
No magic, no mystery, just literally wearing a dead person's face.
I'm pretty sure it wasn't supposed to be like that.
>>70916653
>No magic, no mystery
>>70916401
that stealing faces business still bothers me
does that mean the face Jaqen dons after escaping Harrenhal he just happened to be carrying around with him? What happens if a man gets searched?
>hey pal, why are you carrying five faces around?
Don't tell me they have caches of faces stashed around, like spy thrillers do with passports.
I'm not much a fan of the more over-blown fantasy elements, namely the children in the north and their plasma grenades, but an order of assassins with Disguise Self as a spell-like ability is something that works just fine.
>>70909875
>She learned that being stabbed multiple times can be cured with some milk and a day of bed rest
>She learned that her plot armour allows her to win any fight no matter how injured she is
I thought you guys were memeing and Waif was just a joking way of saying "waifu", turns out it's actual character name, what the fuck
Can she faceswap without access to the hall of faces? If she could build her own little collection somehow, she could actually accomplish something. Otherwise, she's (in-show) a 13-year old girl who can fight in the dark
>>70916723
Arya shapeshifted her organs around the damage. Think before posting please.
>now a girl is no one
What did he mean by this?
>>70917191
If I had to guess, I would think that only novices using the actual faces and the master faceless men just cast Disguise Self
>>70914087
In the book she bumps into Sam, who stops in Braavos on his way to Oldtown.
>>70917742
He was panicked and spooked because arya has becomegame of thronesI mean, so powerful that she managed to somehow get into the hall of faces and stick the waif's face up there without anyone noticing. Although, apparently it's only Jaqen and Waif that exist there, and he must be the one who does the shopping, so that makes sense I guess. It's not like they have doors inside the place, or guards or anything. Anyway, he is a psychopathic killer who is incapable of expressing emotions, but he is also a a massive pussy and ironically super scared of dying, so he just blurted out the first thing he could think of.
>>70909649
Nah, she's Batman now.
>>70917742
he didn't want to get stabbed
>>70909875
>>She learned how to peel faces and use them to hide her identity even further.
Did Arya get that far with her training? Seems like that would be a secret she wasn't privy to just yet.
>>70912994
Words have meanings. Learn them.
The faceless men themselves will probably be involved in the endgame, which is why they introduced them. If that's not the case, then the arc was truly for nothing.
>Character gets development
pointless filler!
>Character doesn't get development
why is she like that? That was never established!
you people just love to complain
>>70909649
As it was in the book, girl. Easily the worst next to Bran and Dance Tyrion.
>>70918027
>faceless men
The age of faceless men is over. The time of faceless womyn has come
did she get the power to steal faces at the end?
Why was Jaqen in westeros? and WHO was he sent to kill and HOW did he get captured and then sent to join the nights watch
>>70909649
This whole season is filler. They have no source material.
>>70917272
>some milk
baitmaster flash yea?
>>70910371
>What possible function was there in building this character up so much when there's nothing for her to do.
She is going to kill Cersi you dumb fuck. The whole arc was her becoming a "badass" so she can kill off the people on her list and introduce some chaos.
Not having co e out of it with really some high level super power ninja type of shit, not being a part of an ancient league of assassins, and really just doing what was predictable all along...she will either prove to be a bullshit character whose story arch is forced and pointless, or there is some other underlying thing that she learned and her true reason for being accepted to train was a plan that has not been revealed.
>>70917272
Was it a day? That timeline wasn't really established. For all you know it was two weeks.
>>70917191
did he have faces with him in the black cells?
>>70918212
he was there to kill someone in the night's watch.
>>70909649
Your problem is the shitty pay off to the arc.
>>70909649
Most anti climactic season so far
>>70909649
>Jaqen tells her that if she wants to kill all the people on her list, go to Braavos and join the assassin club
>Arya kills one of the people on her list
>REEEEEEEEEEEE THAT LIFE WAS NOT YOURS TO TAKE
>Arya gains [Blindness]
Wow
>>70909649
the bravoos shit was the worst thing the show has done
turns out this mysterious cult of assassins is just some middle aged hippie and his jailbait gf
>>70919442
Who?
why did Arya need to save him then...?
>>70919888
coz fire
>>70909649
The Faceless Men are the primary bad guys
Jaqen smirks as Arya leaves because he knows going back to Westeros means she'll die and so he doesn't have to bother trying to stop her.
>>70909649
The Waif honestly seemed autistic, just watch her bizzare sonic hedgehog-tier running.
>>70909875
>>She learned how to peel faces and use them to hide her identity even further.
Is that what they actually do? I thought it was all just some magic. Like all those heads in the temple are actual physical masks they wear?
>>70917514
pls graduate high school
>>70909649
How the fuck did he manage to get captured in the first place, he's meant to be a master assassin.
>>70921145
Getting caught was part of his plan.
Letting Arya go is likely part of the plan too.
What did she mean by this?
>>70909837
>I guess they can't kill her off and her contract stipulates a certain amount of screen time.
...that's totally how it works, sure.
because r.r. killed her but arya went all badass over him and said "muh contract is longer than the script so they
too tired, can't do this. you're an idiot.
>>70921062
There's obviously some magic included but they take the victims drink whatever that liquid is and that allows them to take their faces and use them with their magic. And they need the physical faces to use them. I think there was a scene where Arya borrowed one of the faces and got caught.
>>70918212
so getting caught was part of his plan?
>>70917587
I'm not sure if she knows the source of the magic water and I believe they need that to get the faces. Atleast the show leads us to believe it's a painless death but the person is offered to the faceless god.
>>70921250
>>70921250
Why are there so many flies on the crotch?
>>70909711
Yeah but it took two seasons
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>>70909649
>>70921250
I don't get it. Are those her pubes or her knickers?
>>70919442
no he was sent to kill someone in kings landing and then he got thrown in the red keep. hence the knights watch
>>70916723
Pssst, nothing personell, kid
>>70921250
If I were Arya I'd make sure to run like the wind, only to ensnare myself in a small closed alley. There, just when she's about to gift me the sweet release of death, I'd make sure to swing my balls so that her knife would slash them to smithereens, leaving nothing but a maimed ballsack on my crotch and two testicles rolling away on the dim lit street. I'd then ask her to grant me one final wish, and what would it be you may ask? hehe, i'd never pass on the chance to ask her to step on my detached testicles, I'd enjoy the last seconds of my life seeing her running over them with a speed comparable only to Usain Bolt's on crack. I would die a happy man.
>>70918212
Jaqen IS the Many-Faced God, you dumbnub.
>>70923967
I think it's her vag showing, which is red and looks like a rosbife sandwich
>>70913593
i laughed harder that I probably should. thanks man.
>>70921495
Yeah I never really understood how the faces work, I imagine it works better in the book but the obvious editing makes it look off in the show.
Jon's plotline in S5 and 6:
>Deals with the arrival of Stannis at the wall
>Is named Lord Commander
>Executes Slynt
>Makes peace with the wildings
>Takes part in the battle of Hardhome
>Is murdered
>Is ressurected
>Reunites with Sansa
>Leaves the Night's watch and prepares for war with the Boltons
Arya's plotline in S5 and 6
>Goes to house of black and white
>"Who are you?" "No-one" x 1000
>Kills ser Meryn
>Gets beaten up by waif x 1000
>Watches plays, disregards all training
>Battles autistic lady terminator
>Training complete?
>>70924461
I still don't see it. Is that black mass meant to be "it"?
>>70909649
Yep. A complete utter waste of time that added nothing to the story.
>>70909751
No reason why George couldn't have had her stay with the Hound in hiding somewhere and bring them back in a later book. Him showing her how to fight for real and summed up in a chapter is good enough and better than hundreds of wasted pages.
>Arya points Needle at Jaqen
>Needle is the item that symbolizes Arya's identity
>"And now a girl is finally no-one"
Did the actors even question these shitty lines? It doesn't even make sense
>>70925538
Yeah, that's my main objection too.
Arya's arc was a whole lot of nothing.
>>70909649
All of GoT is filler.
