Did you notice that Lady Crane (the woman Arya is supposed to kill) is playing Cersei Lannister in the play? Cersei is one of the only people left on Arya's list, I wonder if its a coincidence. |
I assume the spear had dragon glass. Though she seemed surprised by what happened, so maybe there's more to it, especially given the L+R=J+M theory. |
I think it was on purpose. But I also think that that scene was here to force Arya to confront that she is not no one yet. |
Oh wow, totally missed that! Very introspective. I think it might have a symbolic meaning. I need to ruminate on that one. |
It's not deadly in children according to convention, but both the wildlings and Melisandre were suspicious of it. |
And to decide if she will be no one, or die. Either she decides to be herself, or she takes the risk of trying again and failing and just being a face on the wall. So maybe Choose A girl has no name = trade in her list to kill an innocent person playing cersei and become a faceless god Choose Arya = keep her list, kill the real cersei, use super fighting techniques to kick asphalt in the wars to come for the Starks |
Except they say who the Three Eyed Raven is--Brynden Rivers, a bastard half-Targaryan. He was once Lord Commander of the Night's Watch and went out ranging and never returned. I do think there are two possibilities concerning the past, present and future. One is that the Raven went back in time and was whispering things to the Mad King, effectively making him mad and causing all of these events to be set in motion. Or, that Bran goes back and does this, causing all of the events to be set in motion. |
I felt this way too the first season, and almost stopped watching, but I've found that it lessens as the seasons go on. |
I thought it was a set up, too. And I was disappointed that she was so chatty about it, as if she were gossiping with a coworker. |
| In the opening scene of the episode Sansa is sewing a dress? Then her speech to Baelish about still feeling Ramsay in here. Could she be pregnant? |
I don't think she was gossiping. She was hesitating about killing someone who didn't seem obviously "evil". |
Oh wow. Didn't think about that, I guess she could be. But I do think that she was sewing the cloak that she gave Jon. |
But he said "you sewed yourself a new dress" after she handed the cloak to him. |
Please don't let Sansa be pregnant. |
The direwolves are victims of budgeting issues. In the first season, the wolves were puppies and were played by real dogs. (The actress who played Sansa adopted hers.) After the first season, they were CGI. To keep the budget down, HBO has kept the onscreen presence of the direwolves to a minimum. I am sure the writers have instructions to get rid of as many wolves as possible. |