Ague Proof posted:

They must have stopped at some point to get the coffin.

crazy cloud posted:

I like that Brianne is a Kingslayer like her pal Jamie now and like him everyone is fine with it mostly

Unzip and Attack posted:

Anonymous John posted:

What was the point of Sansa lying to Jon about the intel on the Blackfish in yesterday's episode? So that Jon cannot be like "hey lets just get LF on our side for now to kill Ramsay, then we'll cut off his head later"?

Cephas posted:

Arya definitely has some sort of plan.

1. In episode 6, she takes Needle out from its hiding place, finds a hidden location to stow away in, and sits in complete darkness.
2. In episode 7, she's out in broad daylight. The complete darkness of episode 6 lets us know she's smart enough to realize that she's not safe, so walking around not even disguised must be a conscious decision rather than thoughtless idiocy.
3. She has enough stolen money to buy passage on a ship, with a cabin, and even convince them to leave early. She has an entirely new outfit from her episode 6 peasant girl costume. This implies she's planning her escape with resources at her disposal, rather than out of sheer desperation.
4. She doesn't have Needle with her when she's out in the open. This means she's kept her best weapon a secret.
5. She stands conspicuously out on a bridge, possibly waiting for an attack. The faceless men could attack her from a rooftop, or from underneath the bridge, but she's trained with them enough to know their methods and may have ruled these out. So she might have chosen the bridge because it limits the range of possibilities for an encounter. It also provides an escape route via the water.
6. Arya spent the last few weeks literally fighting blind; she would have been able to anticipate an attack as obvious as this one. Instead, she turns to take the attack in the stomach, without defending herself. But she has enough strength to push the Waif away and headbutt her, then flip over the bridge and dive into the water. This means she may have taken the attack deliberately, and might have had some sort of trick underneath her padded tunic.
7. The Waif would want Arya's body so they could take her face. In other words, she wouldn't settle for presuming that Arya died when she hit the water. The Waif would go on recon and find the body. So Arya's plan couldn't be to fake her own death, because she'd know the Waif would want her corpse.
8. In the episode preview, we see the Waif running through the streets, undisguised, holding a bloody knife. This doesn't seem like Faceless Man behavior, as they prefer discretion. Probably, she's pissed that Arya pulled a fast one on her and lost her cool.
9. In the preview, we see Arya parkour jumping off a building in a new outfit. So she probably wasn't actually as hurt as she seemed to be.

I think what may be the case is that Arya knows she can't run or hide from a Faceless Man out to kill her, so instead she's baiting the Waif into a confrontation on her own terms. We know from her exchange with the actress that Arya is pretty good at reading people's interior motivations. She's pulling this stunt to draw the Waif out of her comfort zone, and what she'll probably do is lead the Waif to a place where she's hidden Needle, her secret weapon, and use a decisive surprise attack to kill her.

kcroy posted:

Good thing the trained assassin didn't just slit her throat?

Illinois Smith posted:

Did she though? I mean, they didn't actually show much of her training, apart from a shitload of stickfighting and some light poisoning. It felt like she mostly survived through plot armor, not by aplying poo poo she learned through the last two seasons.

Of course, the one thing she learned that she did use (how to fight the Waif while blind) wasn't actually shown.

chilihead posted:

Remember a well written show lets the viewers figure some things out for themselves. It was my understanding that at least half of those Calvary were the mercs that deserted Stannis. They left the but remember they were in a foreign land. Ramsey probably offered them food,shelter and gold to fight for him before they went home. Seems obvious to me.

Kawalimus posted:

The spoilers were weird. They were always like 85% right and would have odd little details that were wrong. Like earlier in the season it said that Davos and Melisandre at the wall something something, and then Davos was supposed to throw a chair. Then it happened almost exactly like it was supposed to but no chair was thrown. Maybe deleted scene? Strange how these things are. The Ramsay alive thing is easy to figure out how it came out that way though.