GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

Lenas_sl said:

He said thewayArya kills Polliver is taken straight from TWOW, and it is, just swap him for Raff. The injuries to Polliver were nearly identical to how she attacked Raff and the dialogue she used in the show were pretty much taken straight from Mercy verbatim, explaining why GRRM released the chapter when he did. He probably didn't want show viewers seeing Arya get revenge before she had gotten it in the books.

On one hand it was extremely gratifying to see the scene so soon after reading it. On the other hand it sucked because we didn't get to see her go nuts and stab the shit out of the Tickler, and now we for sure won't see her be Mercy in the future.

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um what?

in the preview chapter Mercy she's practicing her mummer's stuff/faceless man act and is dressed up in makeup and a wig. she seduces Raff, takes him back to her Apt to have sex with him, and in the middle of undoing his trousers she slits his femoral artery and is like "oh shit, you're bleeding, whats going on, omgerd"

Poliver's death they just mimic'd lommy's for some poetic justice that the tv fans could embrace, though of course they had to remind them of that scene in the "previously on GoT" in the beginning cus most forgot.

edit: yeah the dialogue is similiar, the poetic justic part. ie the whole "can you walk? you'll need to carry me" part. I see what you're saying.

What Lenas said.

Not exactly sure it's a Winds of Winter spoilerper se.

Either GRRM is much more diligently writing winds than he's lead us to believe with his tours and promotions and other things he's been working on, decided to include a throwback bit in to a minor scene he wrote 16 years and 4 novels ago that absolutely nobody would have recognized had it not been for the TV series. D&D have access to this working copy of the manuscript and decided to use elements of the scene in the TV show for a much cleaner and more relevant presentation of said scene than he did in the novel. or

sometime last spring when grrm was reading the scripts (he signs off on them all) an interesting scene caught his attention where arya gets to call back to a scene that happened a year and a half ago in season 2, thought it was interesting and adapted it so he could include it in Winds of Winter, to be able to say "see i'm still writing it i promise" before doing another 11.5 months of anything other than writing winds of winter.

Seriously, there's a spoilers warning right I'm the thread title, if you don't want to see spoilers then gtfo. Pretty simple.