# Game of Thrones 7.06 "Beyond The Wall" 8/20/17

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**Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-7-06-beyond-the-wall-8-20-17/794223/301 "2017-08-24T02:45:15Z")

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> [@Acsenray](#):
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> Theory: The waif killed Arya and is wearing her face — [https://youtu.be/a--82ImTbsM](https://youtu.be/a--82ImTbsM)

It’s not a new idea.

> [@Game of Thrones 6.08 "No One" 6/12/16 \[Show Discussion\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-6-08-no-one-6-12-16-show-discussion/757226/252):
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> If GRRM were still writing: the waif killed Arya in the dark, gave both herself and Arya a face-ectomy, and the person talking to Jaqen in the final scene is the waif wearing Arya’s face.
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> This has the GRRM-like quality of killing a beloved character who behaved foolishly and did not have the skills or resources to continue living - Arya _should_ die. And the entire faceless man shifting-identity plotline is no longer a complete waste of time. A girl (looking like Arya) returns to Westeros to murder-genie everyone that Arya hated and restore the cosmic death balance (for some reason).
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> Since the same actress continues to play FM-Arya, everything looks just the same, so the Arya story does not die. We get a reveal much later that FM-Arya is really the waif.

But it’s like so much of the plot post-GRRM. The writing seems so weak that we try to save it by fanwanking the superficial flawed story something deeper and much more clever… but no, it turns out the superficial flawed story is all there is, and the writing is just weak.

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