GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings
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Ukerric
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There's a shitton of weird stuff going on (and don't tell me the entire sequence didn't feel extremely "off"). So there's two hypothesis: either it's lazy showrunners and scriptwriting and Arya gets a free rez somehow, or it's a deliberate setup (by Arya and/or Jaqen) to trap/test the Waif.
I mean, without the symbolic recovery of Needle, you could even argue it's an entrapment from both Jaqen AND Arya to test the Waif's capacity to follow orders and the "pity, the girl had gifts" was referring to the Waif who is unable to let drop of her personal animosity. Why not? But, alas, we know Arya's never really been "no one", the probability she's acting under Jaqen's orders is close to 0, and so it's another different setup.
Or lazy director. Take your pick.
Ukerric
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In the books, the blidness brings out her warging skills (which were limited to her Nymeria link), as she starts using a cat as her eyes. Even Jaqen starts becoming a bit suspicious because she's too good while being blinded. But show Arya isn't a warg.
From the preview chapters, I think it's obvious that book Arya also gets out of the order.
Chukzombi
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why didnt Jon return the Mormont sword back to lyanna Mormont or even mention that he had it?
oh here is some of what Sansa's letter to LF say.
[GoT S06E07] What did Sansa write in that letter? - Album on Imgur
oh here is some of what Sansa's letter to LF say.
[GoT S06E07] What did Sansa write in that letter? - Album on Imgur
Soygen
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"I know this sword has been in your family for hundreds of years but ... ya know ... finders keepers losers weepers."
Gavinmad
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It wasn't finders keepers, the rightful owner of the sword gave it to him.
He didn't, he gave it to his son, Ser Friendzone. Jorah sent it back after he was exiled from Westeros for selling men into slavery.
Didn't he not have any heirs to hand it down to at that point? Then Jon flung a lantern at a walker and the payment was an ancestral sword?
TJT
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Wait, Jorah sent it to The Wall and not just back to Bear Island? I must have missed that part.
Going by the insanity that the other families go on about their Ancestral swords. You'd think he'd just be content to leave it on the mantle for 500 years like the Tarlys or send multiple expeditions into the unknown to find it like the Lannisters.
Going by the insanity that the other families go on about their Ancestral swords. You'd think he'd just be content to leave it on the mantle for 500 years like the Tarlys or send multiple expeditions into the unknown to find it like the Lannisters.
Also whats the deal with these shit tier houses having the cool swords. Fuckin Mormont and Tarley are worthless and they had badder ass swords than Lannister until Ice was melted down.
Plus, ya know, Jon has better use of Longclaw for fighting the White Walkers. Sure, he has the Mormonts on his side, but it's not like Li'l Mormont is going to wield it better than him.
Chukzombi
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Maybe they weren't always shit tier houses or maybe Valyrian steel was more common. You could buy a $200 watch that gets passed down from generation to generation and in 100 years I'm guessing it would be worth a lot more.
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Sterling
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They go into this a little bit in the books, but the Lannisters did used to have a VS sword and lost it. It was something that bothered Tywin a lot.