sonsastronk

Sophie has beat the rest of the cast when it comes to nabbing a great role. Jean Grey!! Sophie will shine. She'll probably be the next Jennifer Lawrence. Mark my words.

Just wait until she shows her inner-nymphet next episode.

There's a forcefield around the character, book and show, that prevents her from being seriously harmed or exploited. (And, yes, I've read Mercy.)

I don't think that forcefield will be breached any time soon.

Pretty much all of the recurring/"notable" female characters have suffered immensely by death or sexual violence or mutilation, or have been sexualized, except for Arya. Correct? I can't think of anyone else.

No, it is book canon she does: 'Mercy'. And selling cockles was often a cover for prostitution. Molly Maolone is implied to be either a prostitute or the only fishmonger who isn't.

It would be stupid to kill Trant in the brothel with all his men round him though. Lure him somewhere quiet and then dump him into a canal.

Book canon doesn't matter here though. I severely doubt that Arya will flirt or proposition Trant.

Anyone else think that Arya WON'T pose as a prostitute next episode?

They made it pretty clear in the episode that the woman wanted her away from the brothel, and I don't think she'll magically change her mind.

I get what they are doing with Arya but I thought they could have trimmed the more disgusting aspects of "Mercy" as they did Tyrion's brothel visit. But instead we get two episodes of watching Meryn Trant Duggar it up.

I don't think they'll have Arya go Mercy at all. It would be too obvious of a direction.

Honestly, I think Jaqen will get in the way of Trant being killed. Trant will probably escape alive, having not interacted with Arya whatsoever.

I care less and less about Winterfell.

Only positive thing was the lack of Arya.

Hmm yeah. But even Arya herself thought that she should stop that stupid lip bitting habit of hers :)

In AFfC, the KM was trying to catch her unawares while hitting her with his stick and faking a different voice.

Arya does a lot of stupid things. It comes with the character.

Arya and Jorah and Tyrion were at least 10 minutes of watchable TV.

Washing corpses, sweeping, and stupidly reacting to your mentor = watchable TV?

I'd give the episode a 4.

Hated the Winterfell and Braavos scenes. The material for those two locations was absolutely terrible this episode. Everything else was pretty great though.

So no one else was bothered by how Jaqen kept smacking the shit out of Arya?

People probably only focus on the Sansa plot because it's the only interesting one and it has the show's last good actors in them. Why else would there be dozens of Sansa threads each week.

With all this Sansa talk, no onne seems to care about the wonderful set design in the hall of faces,it was quite similar to what i had imagined reading the books. The whole sequence with that eerie music had me captivated.

Hasn't that been what it's like all season long? Everyone only cares about Sansa and says pretty much nothing about everything else in comparison.

Arya rocks as always. Maisie is hands down one of the best actresses on the show.

Who??? I must have fell asleep.

Sophie and Alfie continue to be some of the best actors in the cast

Sophie? No. Alfie? Yes. Although Sophie is an expert at crying by now.

Arya is slowly inching towards the Bran treatment.

If I could remove several storylines from this season, Dorne would be one of them. (The others being Braavos, Tyrion's, and Tommen and Margaery's useless scenes.)