Game of Thrones has lost track of Arya’s arc here and there, particularly when she headed across the sea to Braavos, but it mostly does a skillful job of guiding the character toward her final moment with the Night King, providing an explanation for the perpetual resurrection of Beric Dondarrion (a role that I bet will be filled by Lady Stoneheart in the books) and taking her off the board just long enough that when she sails out of the night and onto the Night King’s back, you’re both thrilled and surprised.Īnyway, if Game of Thrones had an MVP, it would be Arya. For instance, I’m not immediately clear on why she left the front lines of the fight to hide out in the library, nor am I clear on just how she made it out to the godswood so she could kill the Night King with her cool little dagger thing (a weapon I was pretty sure she had lost entirely until I saw she had it again when she killed the Night King).īut boy, oh boy, do I not care. I do think the episode’s struggles with incomprehensibility rear their head with Arya’s storyline.
She fights off wight after wight after wight, then flees for her life narrowly ahead of the forces of the dead. She has a few bonding moments with the Hound. There’s a lengthy sequence where she recreates the “velociraptors in the kitchen” sequence from Jurassic Park in what appears to be the Winterfell library, with some wights.
Helen Sloan/HBOĪt times, “The Long Night” plays like an Arya Stark highlight reel. Winner: Arya Stark Arya is the true hero of the night. But other winners and losers? That I can do. I was enraptured by long swaths of it, frustrated by other long swaths of it, and deeply confused by certain parts. And since all these people live inside an epic story, well, having the narrative advantage is almost more beneficial than anything else at this point.Īnyway, I hesitate to call “The Long Night” a winner or a loser. Yes, she has the numerical advantage as far as armies are concerned, but the folks who survived the Battle of Winterfell have the narrative advantage, what with having survived this massive showdown between the living and the dead. Game of Thrones, Season 8, episode 3: Who died and who lived
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