Given that we’ve seen the library of faces, my assumption is that Arya has taken on the identity and face of one of the people who died in the temple. My guess is that they’re just not showing us the face she’s using, or delaying showing it to us for dramatic purposes.
That’s the way they serve them at the sushi bars. A little rice vinegar and a bit of chili paste. Deelish.
How fortunate you are, to be sure of anything about unaired episodes of this show!
It seems like a reach that Arya would go from barely able to lie convincingly to being able to do face changing magic like that.
I agree with this
and this.
There was no face changing magic. Ayra was practicing her cover story or if you prefer her “undercover identity”, making it real internally and convincing to others should she ever be asked questions about herself. As a part of her training, she has been being sent out to the harbor docks to observe and report as Lana. Now as we see, she is becoming ready to carry out instructions under that cover to kill a man.
Clearly as we saw in a past episode that Jaqen determined that Arya was not ready to learn to be like him yet but she was ready to be a tool used for something else…
Yes, that was my point.
I’m wanting a remix of the giant in the snow with “You just put one foot in front of the other” playing.
Bumbles don’t bounce… but wights do, sort of.
With Arya - when she was going over her cover story with Jaquen she missed a detail which earned a small rebuke. It was that that made me wonder if she had taken on a separate identity. If she had built the business herself (in the guise of Lana) then she’d know the details very well, there’d be no need for a cover. But if she’d adopted the story of Lana then she’d need to get the details exactly right, hence the rebuke and the question of identity.
I thought she was still working on her lying and trying to get one past him.
Yes. Not only to improve her own deception skills, but also perhaps to see if he was still as perceptive as he’d earlier seemed to be.
She herself doesn’t necessarily have to be the one doing the magic, does she?
White Walker. Not wight walker. Although White Walkers do walk wights.
And Osha or whatever her name was told a story about stabbing her wight husband with no effect.
So to sum up, fire for the wights, Dragonglass or Valaryn steel for the Walkers.
I suppose you can hack wights to pieces rendering them immobile.
No, her children were safely away on the boats. I think she just freaked at the sight of undead children.
I thought ‘Longclaw’ got knocked out of his hands and fell outside and he just grabbed whatever weapon was handy until he was able to retrieve it.
I suspect there are two “beings”. The White Walkers are tall and sort of petrified looking. The Zombies, Jason & The Argonauts Skeletons and Blue Eyed Wights are all variation of reanimated dead (AKA “wights”). Just with different mileage on them.
I found the battle confusing too, but I think that’s ok. The army of the dead don’t wear uniforms. They’re just reanimated Wildlings, so it should be hard to quickly tell whose who. Which actually made it a lot scarier IMHO.
A few thoughts on that:
A) Jon needs to screw their Nights Watch vows and get that coxswain laid or something. Because I certainly wouldn’t have held that boat for that long.
B) I would NOT be just casually drifting away with the current at that point. Jon can have his staredown on the stern of the ship…as it heads across the Narrow Sea to South Essos at full sail.
How many wights could a white walker walk if a white walker could walk wights?
I wonder if we’ll ever see the ice spiders as big as hounds. My theory now is that they’re just a legend started by someone who saw a skeletal wight and didn’t know what he was seeing.
I really hope there’s a mashup out there where the final scene of the reanimated dead rising morphs into the Thriller dance. Please, interwebs?
After re-watching this episode last night, it looked to me like the boat wasn’t moving away from the shore (the distance from the shore to the boat remained constant), but that the wind along top of the water pushing small waves towards the shore made it appear as the boat was moving.
Well, there’s this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODNc4LX5cac&feature=youtu.be
Pretty sure it was moving (after watching the Thriller overlay), but it may have simply been the inertia of rowing to get away from shore initially. Dude may have just been catching his breath, having done sprinted to get out of reach.
ETA:
Technically, there is nothing in the vow forbidding getting laid. No wife and no children, yeah, but it is a loophole.