For all we know, there may be no female Water Dancers. It might not even be an option for Ayra.
I figured water dancing was just a fighting style suited to someone smaller with less strength.
Could be right. It’s been a while since Season One, so I don’t remember exactly how her training went. Either way, Arya is unlikely to find someone in Braavos who would train her without expecting service in return.
Syrio was a master water dancer and look what happened to him. Being a great swordsman is only useful if you are in a fair fight. There was never a possibility of winning a sword fight with the Mountain or the Hound and probably not Meryn Trant either. She was never going to get in a sword fight with Cersei or Joffrey either. Being a trained assassin who can take on other faces could allow her to get close enough to kill just about anyone.
It sure seemed like one of the pit fighters in episode 9 employed a similar style of fighting as Arya was trained in. I took that to mean it wasn’t based on size but more just a certain style.
Do we know for certain what happened to him? I’ve been thinking that he may yet surprise us. Of course, I’ve been thinking that for a few seasons now.
Once more, with feeling: for the Watch.
I would be very surprised. Theon was mostly broken by Ramsay. He could maybe play Sansa in service of Ramsay, like when he told Ramsay about her wanting to light the candle for help. But if he was working for Ramsay here, he wouldn’t have pushed Myranda to her death. I don’t think he could play both Sansa and Ramsay, and even if he could, I don’t know why he would at that moment, what his endgame would be.
No, if Sansa had just followed Myranda like she’d been told to, Theon wouldn’t have done anything. It’s just after seeing Sansa refuse, and Myranda say all that stuff about how Ramsay would abuse her, and having seen all the abuse before, he finally snapped.
My interpretation was that Miranda referencing abusing her reproductive system after she bore children was the catalyst for Theon since he lost his. No idea if that is what they were going for but they did make a point if talking about Sansa’s reproductive equipment.
Yes, it does matter when a non book-reader make mistaken statements about the books , is told discreetly by a book reader that maybe he’s wrong (“how do you know this was written by GRR Martin?”) and answers insisting he’s right, based on yet more mistaken statements about the book content he doesn’t know, and adding a book spoiler on top of it.
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
It also matters because someone was wrong on the internet, and even worse, wrong on the straightdope. And I find irritating to be called a jerk and threatened with warnings, especially after having defended the rule for years when it was relevant, especially after making sure that my post didn’t include, not only any spoiler but also no specific reference to the content on the books (like mentioning about which characters of his list he was off-base), especially when I wasn’t the one who started discussing the book content and author.
Basically, my post was :
-you’re wrong regarding in-book Shoreen
-you’re also wrong when you’re stating that the story arc of main characters is still similar in both medium
-even if you were right, the show makers still should own their choices of what they show and what they don’t show. Nobody is forcing them to show a 10 yo being burned to death, whether or not Martin wrote the scene.
I fail to see how this is jerkish, and what impact it could possibly have on a non-reader to know that Martin didn’t write this scene as opposed to wrongly believe that he did. On the other hand, it did feel like “non reader can discuss the book they don’t know and deliberatly post book spoilers, but book readers are jerks if they correct them because even though they didn’t post show spoilers, they conceivably could have”.
Not obvious. Her dance master was small, but he was also “the first sword of Braavos”, which presumably has some significance. I guess water dancers are famous for a reason.
However, given Arya’s state of mind, joining the master assassins seems much more suitable. She doesn’t want to become some impressive fighter, she wants to kill people.
And finally, her dance master successfully protected her but failed at killing his ennemies, while Jaqen succeeded in quite impressive ways.
Besides, she’s now a nutcase obssessed by her thirst for revenge with an essentially psychopatic behaviour. Her crazy death cult seems more suitable than joining an elegant water dancer club, assuming she could.
We have been reminded to take this kind of discussion to ATMB.
Yes, please do.
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You have already been told to take any discussion about this to ATMB, please do not post about this again in this topic.
As an old retired man, he had only a wooden training sword, and beat the crap out of 5 random hired goons, before being (presumably) killed by a well trained swordsman with a real sword and full plate armor. I don’t think that really tells us anything about how effective “water dancing” really is as a fighting style.
In any case, it’s pretty much a non-question why Arya chose training by Jaqen over training by water dancers… Jaqen gave her a token to take to Braavos, Syrio didn’t. If she had a little sword token and was told by Syrio to take it to Braavos and she would find aid, she might well have done that instead, but that was not the case.
And how comes that, again, the person who started the exchange (first time with a comment on the books, this time with a dismissivive “just don’t do it, easy peasy”) is left alone while my answer attracts your ire?
Am I going to shut up when people call me a jerk or junior moderate me? Nope, not until you make me shut up forcefully, or until you make them shut up too.
Aw, c’mon y’all, take that shit elsewhere. We’re talking about a TV show over here.
cough … well, I didn’t know there are eight Sand Snakes and they are all the bastard daughters of Oberyn (‘I will be your champion’). Still can’t get that vision of those perfect breasts out of my mind … can you imagine 16 of those.
Yes, but what allegorical meaning would they have? 
Men (mankind) having but one mouth and two hands, it’s obviously about greed.
They were spectacular, though, weren’t they?