Except for A White F*Cking Horse

Published May 15, 2019 · Updated July 6, 2022

Gents,

I”m sorry I’m after the 5 pm deadline, so if this doesn’t make it that”s fine. But I felt compelled to get something off my chest, maybe a theory or a gripe. So here we go…

So after all the mayhem in King”s Landing, all the fire, all the death. Arya, much like at the battle of Winterfell found herself running for her life. Trying to help those to safety, though that didn’t totally work. In the end, though, we have Arya standing amongst rubble, fire and dead bodies. No signs of life in that area but her… EXCEPT FOR A WHITE FUCKING HORSE.

This was no random horse, it was a white horse, symbolic of death. Not just some random horse, a horse of the golden company leader, the horse that appeared to die when Dany surprised the entire company.

My theory, Arya died during the cleansing of King”s Landing. What we saw was her soul leaving on the white horse. The interaction with the horse. The pace, the embrace. It felt very much like Gladiator, waltzing through the wheat field.

Anyways that”s just my dumb theory. But if she didn’t die, then her plot armor is the most absurd of all time. It”s almost “Glenn hiding under a dumpster” plot armory!

Stephen Gerwel

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