Game Of Thrones – Arya Killing The Night King Was Almost Believable

Published April 30, 2019 · Updated July 6, 2022

Hey Guys,

The issue with Arya killing the Night King goes back to season 6 – episode 8. This is where she “killed” the waif. I am not going to drag again through the details. We all know what happened.

Before that episode, this could be said about Arya:

r character has been about death every since she met Syrio. She follows the many faced God, who’s name is death. She is also pretty fast and nimble. She also fought best blind which makes the dark and very hard to see situation to her advantage. She also was without needle during most of her journey, making most of her training with a staff with the Faceless men. So the weapon Gendry made her is very fitting to that. So I would expect her to be able to contribute a many number of kills, and she did to her credit. Including the NK. Especially the blind training part. I could even believe ( if indeed the aim was for the heart) going for the heart area because of the Hound teaching her where the heart is. Yes as an assassin she was pretty sloppy. But we did at least see blind training.

Except she’s a cartoon now and not enough distance between that and Sundays episode has happened to grow her character beyond that. She shouldn’t be that good fighting Brienne because of staff training and Needle not because being able to be used. She had no experience running a castle and somehow did so for 2 weeks as Walder Frey. She let all the women know it was her in Frey castle and yet no one came for her. She decided to kill her sister because she likes pretty things. A plot that got resolved in a stupid neat bow. She is now associated with over hyped ridiculousness. And it all comes back to that episode and what followed.

As far as prophecy goes, in GRRMs works they are used to convince people to kill each other.

( The Men Of Greywater Station and 7 Times Never Kill Man are prime examples). Or a realization that it doesn’t have to happen and you can’t stop Armageddon. ( The Armageddon Rag) . But that’s about all the homage he got on it. So I’m perfectly fine in not fulfilling it but the one person who cared about it and was pushing it just died. Before giving prophecy about eyes to rest forever. Granted we don’t have the last 3 episodes so I remain somewhat hopeful, but as of right now, how did parentage go into this prophecy ? Bran seemed to care but never mentioned a prophecy. And that prophecy is related to the long night which supposedly just ended. So I fear they just wasted all our time with that. If they didn’t want to follow it, and it sounds like that didn’t since they said they decided to make Arya the person 3 seasons ago , why not focus on other things then?

This is why I don’t blame most of the actors for this. It comes down to bad writing. And D&D are pretty tired of it all that why despite HBO wanting more seasons they cut it down to season 7 and 8. So unfortunately we have fatigued writers who are more anxious to get it done than having good writing.

TL: DR If that episode hadn’t existed I could totally buy Arya killing the Night King.

Angeleah Smith

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