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Was Arya supposed to survive the Long Night?


Angel Eyes

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I've been having this nagging feeling that Arya was not supposed to survive this episode, maybe the Night King breaks her neck even though she manages to stab him, shatter the Walkers and collapse the wights. She does precious little of consequence in the last three episodes except reject Gendry, decide not to complete her list, nearly get trampled multiple times, and stand around while Daenerys makes her speech.

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Her story was completed in The Long Night. That doesn't mean she was intended to die, just that her final conclusion was reached sooner in the story than other characters. All that comes after it was her explicit dropping of the kill list and choosing life. But that is muddled by sending her off in a boat to nowhere which has previously been considered a suicide mission, never to see the people she loves again. Its a weird one. She was only in King's Landing to provide a point of view for the commonfolk as Daenerys inflicted terror on them.

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1 hour ago, AryaNymeriaVisenya said:

Her story was completed in The Long Night. That doesn't mean she was intended to die, just that her final conclusion was reached sooner in the story than other characters. All that comes after it was her explicit dropping of the kill list and choosing life. But that is muddled by sending her off in a boat to nowhere which has previously been considered a suicide mission, never to see the people she loves again. Its a weird one. She was only in King's Landing to provide a point of view for the commonfolk as Daenerys inflicted terror on them.

Except that everyone else who'd reached their narrative conclusion in that episode died: Edd, Lyanna Mormont, Beric Dondarrion, Theon, and Jorah. And Jon and Davos were already there in King's Landing to experience Daenerys sacking King's Landing at ground zero.

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On 5/19/2020 at 11:47 PM, Angel Eyes said:

Except that everyone else who'd reached their narrative conclusion in that episode died: Edd, Lyanna Mormont, Beric Dondarrion, Theon, and Jorah. And Jon and Davos were already there in King's Landing to experience Daenerys sacking King's Landing at ground zero.

Sure but that doesn't have to be the case for every character, Arya as a character was written to be completely insignificant to Westeros after episode 3. All the other surviving characters either had their death to come, or like Jon their final significant act, or were important in the new setup of Westeros. Arya had none of those things. People who get wound up about her killing the NK don't seem to realise, that is all Arya had, If she hadn't had that moment her character would have been completely pointless to the story's conclusion. Which makes us wonder about what the hell Arya is for in a book series with no Night King.

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18 hours ago, Ghostlydragon said:

There is no Night King in the book.

Sure, though there is Nights King and a Cold Hands.

It's possible that GRRM had no idea what he was going with the Others all along and that's why their show version is such a monumental balls up - there was no plan to go on at all.

Too much gardening and not enough plotting - I've come to think that a more perfect tale requires both. Like a wild beast that must be constantly trained and pulled back into line. Overall, I think everyone lost control of the beast that was GoTs/ASoIaF.

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