One single objectionable storyline does not a fan fiction make. Either that or Arya is running a counter-scheme to Littlefinger’s and playing the part he wants her to before revealing her true plans. If anything, it feels more like wheel-spinning, something for the Starks to do while everyone is off having a much more interesting season elsewhere. And perhaps after Arya’s massacre of the Freys she really would be a sociopath with an itchy trigger finger (or stabbin’ finger…wait, that’s not really a thing, is it?), even if her new target turns out to be her only sister.īut it doesn’t feel that way. Perhaps I so longed for a Stark reunion that I failed to recall the enmity Arya and Sansa shared back in the first season. She’s a black & white rage monster who struggles to see the grey, but surely she’d at least give her sister a chance to explain herself and share the horrifics details of the hell she went through to reclaim Winterfell for their family (she kind of does, but not really). Arya would not turn her homicidal rage on her only sister after just the slightest manipulation from Littlefinger, not with how much family means to her. I don’t care what she’s been through with her faceless man crap. Arya’s now threatening to cut off Sansa’s face and parade around as her? For example, there were moments between those latter two in “Beyond the Wall” which I just didn’t buy at all. They’re two guys who came to this project as superfans, and have now emerged as definitive co-authors.īut the further we get away from the last Martin novel (which roughly corresponds with season 5 of the show) the more false notes we’re starting to hit, particularly this season, which has felt rushed and occasionally frustrating due to its questionable character choices with Bran, Sansa and Arya. When he proved incapable of finishing his novels fast enough they took the baton and ran with it, with Martin’s blessing (and slight consultation). No one could have possibly done a better job of adapting (and often times tweaking) Martin’s work in those first five seasons. This started last season, of course, but it seems all the more apparent this season, especially considering how often the “Inside the Episode” featurettes with Benioff and Weiss include language like “we were thinking…” or “we thought it would be a good idea to…” Everything we just watched in this episode might never make it into the books, whenever Martin finishes them, that is, because most of it seems to be coming from Benioff and Weiss’s imagination. Weiss era of the larger GoT saga, the two showrunners replacing George R.R. I first noticed it last episode, and really couldn’t get away from it in “Beyond the Wall.” I’m suddenly very aware that we are in the David Benioff and D.B. Season 7 has been a lot of fun, and “Beyond the Wall” didn’t really disappoint. I’ll talk about that, but first a tangent: is Game of Thrones turning into glorified fan fiction? Yes, yes…our fellowship did their thing, and more of them returned alive than expected. Polar bears, dragons and zombie dragons, oh my.
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