Maisie did a good job in the latter scene, but the two storylines aren’t talking to one another. I also found the followup scene with Arya and the Lannister soldiers a bit weird as characterization: it doesn’t exactly scan that the remorseless, emotionless avenger of House Stark is so unaffected by that when she’s breaking bread with the enemy and learning that they’re not so different after all. I don’t think Arya is going to be the one to carry out the killing – my money is on Lady Stoneheart and the BwB – but I can see the streamlining logic of giving LSH’s plot to Arya. In terms of the over-arching question of what from the shows is going to show up in the books, this is strongly suggestive that my Red Wedding 2.0 theory is on the right track. (By contrast, I wasn’t really feeling Maisie Williams’ “the North remembers” and “winter came for House Frey” – it’s a bit repetitious). David Bradley clearly had a grand old time playing Arya-as-Walder giving this big dramatic monologue calling out House Frey. – I have to say that I found this scene a lot of fun from a theatrical perspective. While having some major open questions w/r/t plausibility – where did Arya get enough poison for the whole of House Frey, etc. While we figure out the format going forward, here’s what I thought of the episode: So…the great live-blogging experiment ran into some heavy technical problems, but was otherwise a lot of fun.
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