Holy shit, that's scary! I'm glad she survived. 
I'm surprised this story is only coming out now and on her terms.
I'm surprised this story is only coming out now and on her terms.
Spoilers Game of Thrones: The Final Season
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I just saw this too... The New Yorker has a really great article where she writes about it. I had no idea that prior to Game of Thrones, she had almost no professional experience. Talk about a natural. So thankful she survived this harrowing ordeal.
Fortunately, Daenerys spends a great deal of time trying to put up a queenly front, which no doubt helped ease the burden of seeming "natural.". As near as I can tell, experience makes most actors quite competent. I've seen her a bit since the early days. She wasn't memorable in Terminator Genisys or Solo, but then, neither were the movies. (Not for me at least.) But her performances in Me Before You and Voice from the Stone were good. (For me at least.)
Fuck that asshole. Seriously. What the fuck? 
Disgusting. There are some seriously warped people out there.
That headline is totally bizarre. What is interesting is how young she was when this happened. Also, since this was so early in the show there weren't as many people watching it. If it had happened three, or even two years later, it would have been huge news.
On another topic, I am rewatching the series now with the expectation of being caught up sometime before the final episode airs. I just watched the first episodes in the Eyrie and was struck by how entirely unimpressive it was compared to the novels. This had been a series I had wanted to read earlier but only started when HBO first began airing the series, so the first season sets were impressive when I was watching them at the time. Since then I have never liked the Iron Throne on the series, nor Daenarys's keeping her full head of hair after season one, and a number of other nitpicky details. What I have been impressed with is how the series incorporates a lot of the important details way back in Season 1.
On another topic, I am rewatching the series now with the expectation of being caught up sometime before the final episode airs. I just watched the first episodes in the Eyrie and was struck by how entirely unimpressive it was compared to the novels. This had been a series I had wanted to read earlier but only started when HBO first began airing the series, so the first season sets were impressive when I was watching them at the time. Since then I have never liked the Iron Throne on the series, nor Daenarys's keeping her full head of hair after season one, and a number of other nitpicky details. What I have been impressed with is how the series incorporates a lot of the important details way back in Season 1.
It is indeed idiotic, but possibly not in the sense intended. The guy was pretending it was the show who was publicizing all this, when it was Emilia Clarke. It's a forced, false way to attack the series finale ahead of time. If we want to be cynical, then we could suppose Clarke is wanting a career after GoT, and wants some PR to separate her image. But then, as she matures dealing with her fears from the period would get easier, probably. Transforming such experiences into a settled narrative can be reassuring. It's never safe to rely on the patient's medical expertise, but it must have been terrifying. It seems from the excerpts I've read that most of the behind-the-scenes people didn't know, nor is it clear how many of them understood a brain surgery that didn't involve opening the skull.
(I also doubt the series can possibly end up being good, because I do think bad endings ruin a show, and I can't see a good ending...but then, I think that's one reason Martin is stuck, because his whole conception was fundamentally flawed in ways he can't fix.)
This interview was brought in the X-Men thread because of New Mutants (and its limbo status), but here's the Rolling Stone double interview with Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner. It's a long read but it's well worth it if you're a fan of either actress.
Not much in the way of season 8 spoilers, although we do get this hint about Arya:
Not much in the way of season 8 spoilers, although we do get this hint about Arya:
Williams did go through a recent, inexplicable phase when her own emotions felt inaccessible. She couldn’t cry, onscreen or off. (“I’ve come out of it,” she notes. “I cry every week.”) It coincided with Season Eight, in which Arya apparently reconnects with her humanity. “It was really amazing, perfect timing because Arya’s just starting to feel again for the first time,” she says. “So it was actually kinda beautiful the way it was working. Because usually I’m trying to play Arya with no emotion, whilst feeling everything. And this time I was feeling nothing while I was trying to feel something, and it worked . . . I think.”
Undoing Arya's arc would not just be a dismantling/demotion of the character. It also would mean all that time watching her adventures meant nothing, not even for Arya. The problem with that is, Arya knows the Faceless God is real enough to have given her magic powers. How can she simply forget that, except by being a halfwit?
She has feelings now, and always has. Pretending she didn't is nonsense. Giving up on her list does indeed undo her arc.
If she's just going to be the short version of Brienne, badass but romantically shy, they could have just had her training offscreen for a season or two, like Bran. The character in universe could develop issues about how to move forward with her list or about her relationship to the Many-Faced God. But that's not what Williams is talking about. She's young but she's a professional, so she's certainly not going to express any criticism of the series, lest she be Shonda'd like Heigl.
Wow, talk about an overreaction based on a vague hint without any real context. 
As for Arya's arc, giving up on her list could very well be a closure to her arc. The list is based on vengeance and hatred--giving up on that could mean either realizing that there are more important things than personal vengeance or it could be (unlikely) forgiveness.
Regardless, as Tywin said in the first season--personal vendettas are unimportant. They'll all be dead and rotting soon. All that really matters is if the House name lives on.
Regardless, as Tywin said in the first season--personal vendettas are unimportant. They'll all be dead and rotting soon. All that really matters is if the House name lives on.
Everyone on Arya's list is there for murdering someone. The butcher's boy was not personally dear to Arya. Personal vengeance and personal hatred is not even the issue. The idea that Arya spent all that time as a kind of novice in a convent faking belief seems to me to demean the character. If Arya never had any interest, much less belief, in the Faceless God, why was she there? If it never mattered to her, it doesn't matter to me either, except that I wasted all this time watching this pointless story.
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