That's the best title for this episode....what could have been. I can live with the Blackfish scene, he was not a main character, needed to cut certain parts out for time... I get it. However Arya and the many faced god, seriously what....the....f. The whole premise of this cult was hard to swallow to begin with and has been getting serious air time that last two years.
Let's start with Jacqen. They made one of the coolest characters of the early seasons into an old miser who walks around in robes all day. Occasionally, for excitement, he gets to cut a face off. Has he left the building once? What is even in this building besides a fountain and a stone table for the plastic surgery.
Now to Arya and Waif. This girl has been beating on Arya every episode for the last two years, and it seemed like we were going to get an epic resolve. A chance for Arya to finally show off her training and kill the baddie. Instead we get a ridiculous choreographed Terminator 2 style chase. Waif flings grown men out of her way with the strength of Gregor Clegane. She stops pompously a couple times to breathe the summer air of Braavos, rather defeating the purpose of her T2 like sprint.
The chase would be stomach-able if the fight scene made up for it. Nope. A real cop out for the writers and directors to end this story line like this. My guess is they tried to choreograph something and they didn't like it so scrapped it. Perhaps there is a reason, maybe Arya is really Waif now. At the moment though, I really dislike how it ended.
Let's start with Jacqen. They made one of the coolest characters of the early seasons into an old miser who walks around in robes all day. Occasionally, for excitement, he gets to cut a face off. Has he left the building once? What is even in this building besides a fountain and a stone table for the plastic surgery.
Now to Arya and Waif. This girl has been beating on Arya every episode for the last two years, and it seemed like we were going to get an epic resolve. A chance for Arya to finally show off her training and kill the baddie. Instead we get a ridiculous choreographed Terminator 2 style chase. Waif flings grown men out of her way with the strength of Gregor Clegane. She stops pompously a couple times to breathe the summer air of Braavos, rather defeating the purpose of her T2 like sprint.
The chase would be stomach-able if the fight scene made up for it. Nope. A real cop out for the writers and directors to end this story line like this. My guess is they tried to choreograph something and they didn't like it so scrapped it. Perhaps there is a reason, maybe Arya is really Waif now. At the moment though, I really dislike how it ended.