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Giving her more time on the mend would've helped a lot. Since we're doing some fantasy editing on this storyline, I'd go even further and cut everything between Arya blowing out the candle in episode 6 and killing The Waif in episode 8. We skip her stupidly wandering around the city without a care in the world, and there's no display of how invincible her guts are.

Turns out that was just a random background dude with an afro who buys his clothes at the same place Syrio did. And there were no twists to explain why Arya was so careless in the previous episode. She's just a moron.

HBO released a still from the next ep that seems to suggest a character return, and I really hope it isn't just a cruel tease.

I don't blame her for going nuts. If you live in that world, don't ever get your fortune told. Better to not know.

Bummer. http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/04/13/game-of-thrones-maisie-williams-definitively-ends-your-syrio-forel-theories The Hound saying what a shitty swordsman Meryn Trant was gave me hope.

Cersei would rank high among all idiots in that world. Arya occasionally makes mistakes, but I wouldn't put her on that list. To be so stupid in this instance would seem out of character.

It's hard to accept that it was really Arya because it was incredibly dumb for her to be wandering around the city without a care in the world or her sword when she knew full well that there would be a price to pay for fucking up another assignment. I want there to be some twist to it because I don't want her character to be so stupid. I don't think she's capable of slapping her face onto other people. I really doubt its Jaqen taking the fall for her. Can an adult man put on a small girl's face and suddenly have her body type? He's almost a foot taller than her. I imagine that's beyond the limits of Faceless Men face magic. The split personality theory is kind of silly, but it's better than her just being a reckless idiot. I kept hoping Syrio Forel would pop up among the crowd she was stumbling through and save her. Sure, it would be lame fan service, but I don't care. Service me!

I'll bet those twin morons are the worst at sealing letters.

Dany's incredibly shortsighted. Her defining characteristic is her sense of entitlement. She deserves everything and she's going to take it no matter the consequences. Tyrion is compromising in her absence, which makes a whole lot more sense than forcing everyone to give up the long tradition of slavery on the spot and be happy about it. Of course it should end, but it's not as easy as flipping a switch. I'm sure she'll be pissed once she finds out. All she's done in her quest to bring peace and order is create chaos. It'll be just the same if she brings the Dothraki to Westeros. Does she expect to change their lifestyles overnight the way she expected to change it for the slaves and their masters? Wouldn't the Dothraki be better off keeping things as is and not crossing the Narrow Sea to risk their lives for this woman they just met? What the hell are they getting out of this? A higher risk of death and a much lower chance of rape and pillaging? Wow, what a deal! I understand the Unsullied's devotion, but not the Dothraki. I like your idea for how things end up. Stay in Essos, Dany. Stop by Westeros with your pets to melt the White Walkers, but then get the hell out.

I'm looking forward to seeing how well the Dothraki and Unsullied integrate into Westorosi society once Daenerys has conquered King's Landing.

I imagine Arya will end up killing the Waif. Which would then lead to Jaqen coming after her? He should give her a pass. Tell her "Hey, sorry we totally lied about you being able to kill everyone on your list once you became one of the Faceless Men! You're free to go."

I wish I could've seen that. That would've been a hell of an introduction to Euron. Instead he told dick jokes. Boy, do the Ironborn love dick jokes! I think that's what clinched it for him.

This thread has been sullied.

I just watched the scene where Jaqen #1 offers to take her to Braavos so she can become one of the Faceless Men. He runs through her kill list and says she could offer up all of those names to the Red God. Yet she got in big trouble for offing Meryn Trant. It seems she's barred from killing whoever she chooses now. Since she is no one, she should have no desire for revenge. So Jaqen #1 just flat out lied and misrepresented what this path would allow her to do?

Yeah, the first Jaqen was great. I'm thinking this current guy, who's a total drag, is a different faceless man wearing the Jaqen face. Like he specifically wore it because he knew it would be familiar to Arya. Or maybe it's just a popular face around there. He's a good-looking guy. The faceless men fight over who gets to wear it.

Man, I had to read your last point a few times before I understood what you were saying. Not because you didn't explain it well, but because I just find all this shit maddeningly confusing. That really does make the ending to DoFP darker than they probably intended. This article answers a lot of questions about that film and also poses a few that seem unanswerable: http://www.ew.com/article/2014/05/23/x-men-ending-future-past What a mess.

Despite this, these are supposed to be the same people who are older in the future films. They expect us to believe that Fassbender's Magneto will age into McKellen's Magneto. It seems that his aging was on pause at least until 1983. Somewhere between then and 2000 he became a baggy-eyed old man. If Singer's going with the agelessness of the comics, something horrible must've happened to everyone between Apocalypse and the first X-Men movie, like Rogue came by and drained everyone of their immortality. Magneto aged the worst, so maybe she held onto him the longest? And then Masque rearranged Sophie Turner's face so she'd look like Famke Janssen? I don't know. Maybe I'm overthinking this.

Yeah, her fire act is getting tired. I hope her campaign for the crown fizzles out and she's relegated to lighting farts to the delight of the unwashed masses in Flea Bottom.

Still four out of six direwolves left, although Arya's is missing. I'm really hoping to see Ghost rip Thorne's throat out.

A weak season with a shitty finale. I might finally give up on this show, which would be appropriate as this is the exact point I gave up on the comic. At least I didn't have to wait till issue 101 to see who the fucking bat hit.

I think Judith is Negan. It's gonna be a really slow buildup to the big reveal. She'll have to learn how to talk first.

That list was bullshit and seemed ranked in a way to maximize SNL fan outrage and ensure it went viral. Nothing positive should ever be said about Jay Mohr, though. They got that right.

Good idea! Here's one I made.

Can someone who has read the books explain how this was revealed there and how it differed from the show? But, you know, in a spoiler-free way. It would've been too much for Lysa to spell everything out. She was already telling Baelish things he already knew that he'd rather she not talk about. I suppose they could've had a third party there to react in shock to the reveal, but whoever that was would've had to die. I don't know how they could've made it clearer, aside from Baelish proclaiming "Yes! What you just said is proof that I am the catalyst for all the chaos plaguing the realm! Now let's never speak of this again." I like that they didn't hold our hands and walk us through the implications of that reveal. I appreciate that they assumed I can remember things that happened in season one. It wasn't that long ago.

Maybe Baelish should've brought out a flowchart showing how Jon Arryn's death led to every horrible thing that's happened in the series.