Game Of Thrones Season 6 Discussion (Spoilers)
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Arya joining the theater group does make sense considering the casting of Richard E. Grant and Essie Davis, both of whom are well-known character and stage actors. I would hate to think the show would waste Grant on a bit role.
I was pleased to see Arya reclaim.. Arya. Though as in the books I wonder what the point of all that faceless men stuff was.
I just rewatched the scene. While it's true they didn't say "she failed," Jaqen does say "Shame. The girl had many gifts." which in itself implies failure.
To learn how to fight and kick ass and be an assassin.
You're misremembering the scene a little. The vial was drank by "Jaqen", who then died, and then Arya began pulling multiple masks off the corpse's face (while the Waif is standing behind her) before finally revealing her own face on the corpse. Upon seeing this, her vision begins to blur and she's struck blind (Magic? Divine retribution? Who knows.) Then we see Jaqen standing behind her, who had been masquerading as the Waif.
Ah, crap, so I am. Thanks for the reminder. 
Arya's body language when she retrieves Needle and lays down in the dark pretty clearly indicates that she knows she just burned all bridges with the Faceless Men and the Many-Faced God and is expecting a reprisal.
Agreed. Retrieving Needle is, at long last, Arya's declaration that she's done running away from the truth of who she is (something that started all the way back at the end of Season 1 of the show, after her father died), and that it's time to stand and fight for herself. Here, literally for her name and her identity, which she has been unable to give up completely to join the Faceless Men.
It very much fits the pattern of the Stark reemergence that we've been seeing this season. Sansa is finally away from the people that have been manipulating and abusing her since way back in the first season. John has fulfilled his vow to the Nights Watch and is on the march for Winterfell. And even Bran has finished his time with the Three-Eyed Raven and begun to journey back south.
Things are coming back full circle. If the first season of the story was about the Starks going their separate ways, of being torn apart as a family, here we've turned the corner. It's kind of an interesting metaphor, actually. The wolves were driven apart, and have been beaten and bloodied by the world ever since. Picked off seemingly one by one in an endless string of catastrophes. Now the pack begins to come back together. May we even get 4 or more Starks in the same scene together for the first time since, what, the second episode? It feels like an ending is just around the corner now, one way or another.
We've already established the show is taking liberties and combining characters. They say nothing about it being something accurate to but not yet revealed in the books.
This is the first time, other than the first season, that I am watching the show prior to reading the books. I can't be the only one who is feeling a greater anticipation for the release of Winds of Winter after seeing what's happening on screen. Of course, the books have a huge amount of backstory and do a better job of showing character motivations--mentioned up thread is how different Jaime's character development has been up until now. One of the other major reasons is precisely as Venardhi is hinting at--it is going to be really interesting seeing where the two stories diverge.
Well, if the show continues to re-steer Jaime's course back on the book path, he'll become important again...
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I think, he will definitely run into Brienne again, the question is...
will it be before or after Brienne's encounter with Lady Stoneheart. We left Brienne and Jamie in the novels just after they ran into each other, but after she had already encountered the Lady.
This is what I predict if the show follows the books (spoiler coded because of one revelation that hasn't happened yet):
Jaime travels to Riverrun and faces off with the Blackfish (as seen in "The Broken Man" promo) and faces a stalemate for couple of episodes (as it does in the book). Meanwhile, Brienne travels south to Riverrun but is intercepted by the Brotherhood Without Banners (who were name checked in "Blood of My Blood," meaning they haven't been forgotten about). Whoever captures her (and Podrick, too?), travel for a couple of days to wherever their stronghold is. Brienne is brought forward to their leader and we see her reaction "It can't be!" but, we the viewer, don't see who. We won't see Brienne's last chapter from A Feast for Crows in order to maintain the surprise for the season finale cliffhanger.
Instead, the viewer has to wait an episode or two (depending how long they drag out Brienne's trip south and/or travel capture time with the Brotherhood Without Banners), until the final sequence of the finale. Brienne appears at Riverrun to fetch Jaime, just as she does in the book. She tells him that she has found Sansa but she needs his aid alone or the Hound (or perhaps someone else) will kill her. Brienne leads Jaime back to the Brotherhood Without Banners stronghold and we finally see Lady Stoneheart, throat sliced open and everything. Roll credits.
Instead, the viewer has to wait an episode or two (depending how long they drag out Brienne's trip south and/or travel capture time with the Brotherhood Without Banners), until the final sequence of the finale. Brienne appears at Riverrun to fetch Jaime, just as she does in the book. She tells him that she has found Sansa but she needs his aid alone or the Hound (or perhaps someone else) will kill her. Brienne leads Jaime back to the Brotherhood Without Banners stronghold and we finally see Lady Stoneheart, throat sliced open and everything. Roll credits.
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I think Emh has it pretty close to how it will go down. I doubt they'll end another season trying to fake us out that a major character has been killed as per Brienne's final chapter in AFFC. And the Lady Stark reveal is the way many of us thought that season four was going to end.
It will be interesting to see what Stoneheart/Stark is "really" like because we've actually seen very little of her in the books and most of what we know is through second or third hand stories and gossip. She obviously can't be as cold-blooded as we hear because she did let Brienne go, yet we don't know if Brienne's mission is to bring back Jamie to die as payment for the Red Wedding.
It will be interesting to see what Stoneheart/Stark is "really" like because we've actually seen very little of her in the books and most of what we know is through second or third hand stories and gossip. She obviously can't be as cold-blooded as we hear because she did let Brienne go, yet we don't know if Brienne's mission is to bring back Jamie to die as payment for the Red Wedding.
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