I can honestly not fathom how the writers wrote down the ending for Arya's storyline in Braavos, read it through a few times, perhaps asked a few other people for their opinion and put it into action without thinking "this is ridiculous, contrived, Hollywood nonsense".
The rest of the episode is mostly fine. King's Landing was enjoyable, for once something actually happens in Mereen and the Riverrun siege...well, I suppose I don't understand how the Blackfish can get all teary-eyed over Sansa being just like Cat but refuses to go with Brienne because he wants to hold his home, yet when his home is lost he STILL refuses to go with her just to die off-screen for no reason. Never mind that, though. This is way worse.
So at the end of last episode, Arya acts entirely out of character by wearing fancy clothes, tossing around money, strolling around like a fancy lady, all while being unarmed while being hunted by the faceless men, which she must've been aware of given her, you know, spending two and a half seasons with them and acting all prepared for an attack at the end of S06E06. Predictably, she gets stabbed by the waif but manages to survive and get away.
Since Arya acted so tremendously out of character, we were led to believe that either she had prepared some sort of trap or perhaps this wasn't even Arya at all. Or at least that she had some sort of basic plan. NOPE! As if she had not at all considered the possibility that she may be attacked by the assassins who she betrayed a few days ago, she goes off to Lady Crane who magically heals her wound. "Never mind getting stabbed in the gut, I'll just sleep it off!"
The waif tracks her down, kills Lady Crane and after some Terminator-esque monologue from the waif, she chases Arya, who has regained all her strength after being stabbed all of a sudden, even though she could barely walk after she got out of bed, through half the city. Stuff happens, Arya leads her to her hideout and kills her in the dark and off-screen. She returns to Jaqen, confronts him and then leaves.
The thing is, had Arya knowingly lead her to her hideout in order to fight her in the dark, that would make some sense. She knew she would be attacked, so she baited the waif (with the fairly risky tactic of getting herself stabbed) and lured her to her safehouse. But no. Arya has no idea what's going on. It's absolutely absurd and completely out of character. There's no way Arya would not know she was being hunted. There's no way she would be unarmed and strutting around like she owns the place, unless there was some plan behind it all. There wasn't. It was just awful writing.
In my opinion, this is the lowest point of the series. To see such a long, drawn out storyline of a major character end like some awful cliché Hollywood action movie is just baffling.
The rest of the episode is mostly fine. King's Landing was enjoyable, for once something actually happens in Mereen and the Riverrun siege...well, I suppose I don't understand how the Blackfish can get all teary-eyed over Sansa being just like Cat but refuses to go with Brienne because he wants to hold his home, yet when his home is lost he STILL refuses to go with her just to die off-screen for no reason. Never mind that, though. This is way worse.
So at the end of last episode, Arya acts entirely out of character by wearing fancy clothes, tossing around money, strolling around like a fancy lady, all while being unarmed while being hunted by the faceless men, which she must've been aware of given her, you know, spending two and a half seasons with them and acting all prepared for an attack at the end of S06E06. Predictably, she gets stabbed by the waif but manages to survive and get away.
Since Arya acted so tremendously out of character, we were led to believe that either she had prepared some sort of trap or perhaps this wasn't even Arya at all. Or at least that she had some sort of basic plan. NOPE! As if she had not at all considered the possibility that she may be attacked by the assassins who she betrayed a few days ago, she goes off to Lady Crane who magically heals her wound. "Never mind getting stabbed in the gut, I'll just sleep it off!"
The waif tracks her down, kills Lady Crane and after some Terminator-esque monologue from the waif, she chases Arya, who has regained all her strength after being stabbed all of a sudden, even though she could barely walk after she got out of bed, through half the city. Stuff happens, Arya leads her to her hideout and kills her in the dark and off-screen. She returns to Jaqen, confronts him and then leaves.
The thing is, had Arya knowingly lead her to her hideout in order to fight her in the dark, that would make some sense. She knew she would be attacked, so she baited the waif (with the fairly risky tactic of getting herself stabbed) and lured her to her safehouse. But no. Arya has no idea what's going on. It's absolutely absurd and completely out of character. There's no way Arya would not know she was being hunted. There's no way she would be unarmed and strutting around like she owns the place, unless there was some plan behind it all. There wasn't. It was just awful writing.
In my opinion, this is the lowest point of the series. To see such a long, drawn out storyline of a major character end like some awful cliché Hollywood action movie is just baffling.