Honestly, I think that thinking too hard about it will drive a person insane. Because I really think there is no explanation. Or rather the explanation is a rather unsatisfying one.
- Arya was in a hole in Braavos, plotwise.
- They needed her out of that hole to rejoin the main plot, which is clearly coalescing around Winterfell.
- They wrote a weird story that doesnt make a lot of sense but ends with a relative bang big enough that they hope people won’t notice it.
I don’t feel GRRM’s fingerprints on this at all. Maybe he himself didn’t know how Arya gets from Braavos to Westeros in the books when they sat down with him. But his advantage as a novelist is could always just have her show up to Westeros and the reader could understand through a few expository passages that her training was complete, or she went AWOL or whatever. And the show can’t do that. They have to show something specific.
It doesnt make much sense.
So they plastered over it all with A Man’s enigmatic, Mona Lisa smile so people can speculate on the mystery of it all.
Of course there is the possibility that something much deeper is going on but I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for it to be explained.
No comments:
Post a Comment