It’s a far better note to remember than Tyrion’s joke about a donkey in a brothel.
At the same time, maybe the best thing of all is for us to forever remember this as Arya’s last moment, looking forward to the infinite potential ahead of her. Maybe it feels weird to see Arya abandon her family, and permanently at that. More dragons? Different kinds of magic? More advanced technology? Now she’s sailing a ship to a foreign land where anything is possible. Throughout her time on Game of Thrones especially as she matured from a 12-year-old girl to a woman in her early 20s Williams said Arya's tomboyish demeanor often felt stifling. She’s a skilled fighter with a compelling pseudo-magical toolkit that allows her to shapeshift into dead people. Instead of politics and backstabbing, it would just be Arya exploring a new world and … well, there’d still be lots of stabbing.Īrya’s already most people’s favorite character. By contrast, Arya’s scene is fully consensual she initiates the encounter and makes it clear to Gendry that she wants to experience sex before she dies, in the classic vein of countless teens.
GAME OF THRONES AIYA SERIES
What’s truly exciting about an Arya Stark sequel series is that it would be completely different from the core Game of Thrones story about a dragon queen’s rise to power and the greatest houses of Westeros all vying for political control of a divided land. Who cares about the Night King!? Arya already killed him. “How about a petition? An online petition to HBO that they do a sequel with Arya Stark.”Īlmost instantly, one such petition was created.Ĭoster-Waldau is referring to the Game of Thrones prequel show currently in production, but now that we’ve all seen the series finale, following up with more stories focused on fan-favorite Arya Stark sounds far more interesting than a story set thousands of years ago that explores the origins of the Night King. “I know they’re doing all these prequels, but what about a sequel with Arya?” Coster-Waldau said in a video posted to his Instagram account Monday. He even took the chance to lightly mock these fan petitions requesting the last few seasons get remade. Truly, Jaime’s fraught redemption arc is finally complete. If there was ever a GoT sequel we needed to see, it’s definitely Arya Goes West, and even Jaime Lannister actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau agrees it would make a better spinoff than any kind of prequel. With the wars over and her remaining family members safe, she'll have the chance.When Game of Thrones ended, Arya Stark sailed off to the uncharted lands somewhere west of Westeros. "I'd like to see that," Arya says with a glint in her eye. It's at Winterfell that two incredibly important moments happen that won't bear fruit until later on: Arya's reunion with Bran, now a greenseer who knows of her kill list and deadly escapades.
The edge of the world, as Lady Crane puts it. Along the way, Lady Crane asks Arya to join the troupe and travel with them to Pentos.Īrya declines, however, and when Lady Crane asks her where she'll go with The Waif (The Waif, ugh!) hunting her down, she replies, "What's west of Westeros?" Lady Crane tells her she doesn't know, to which Arya responds, "Nobody does. Lady Crane finds her and helps nurse her with soup and milk of the poppy. This obviously runs her afoul of The Waif ("No One" is incidentally the episode when the show disposes of The Waif for good), who stabs her in the gut. When Arya finds herself sympathetic to the actress, who's playful and envied by a less-talented member of the troupe, she fails to go through with the murder. Back in Season 6, Episode 8 ("No One"), Arya is tasked with assassinating Lady Crane, an actress who plays Cersei Lannister in a play called The Bloody Hand. As was the case with Daenerys' Season 2 vision in the House of the Undying, a previous Arya scene hinted at what the show had in store for her.