Everyone always got up in arms about Arya declaring herself at the Bloody Gate and then going nowhere.
I think it's rather obvious that the knights would assume that Arya laughing like that therefore obviously had to be a fake, so they'd think Sandor Clegane was just looking for coin and got a girl he was going to claim as Arya but who wasn't her and therefore not admit him or Arya.
Idk, those knights aren't laughing. I think they took them quite seriously.
Just a plot hole.
Of course the knights wouldn't laugh, they'd consider Clegane a waste of time, an insult to the memory of their lady, and then chase him off in the scenario I gave. Arya's laughing is what they would assume is gives her away as a fake in their minds.
Idk, those knights aren't laughing. I think they took them quite seriously.
Just a plot hole.
Of course the knights wouldn't laugh, they'd consider Clegane a waste of time, an insult to the memory of their lady, and then chase him off in the scenario I gave. Arya's laughing is what they would assume is gives her away as a fake in their minds.
Arya looks and sounds like a Stark. The Mountain is far from inconspicuous, and is not to be made light of following rumors of him abandoning KL. Combine that with talk of runaway Stark daughters (Sansa and Arya...Lyanna before them), and I call plot hole on this one.
Don't get me wrong. Love that scene. But it doesn't make a lot of sense.
"I can see it. You have more of the north in you than your brothers."
Of course the knights wouldn't laugh, they'd consider Clegane a waste of time, an insult to the memory of their lady, and then chase him off in the scenario I gave. Arya's laughing is what they would assume is gives her away as a fake in their minds.
Arya looks and sounds like a Stark. The Mountain is far from inconspicuous, and is not to be made light of following rumors of him abandoning KL. Combine that with talk of runaway Stark daughters (Sansa and Arya...Lyanna before them), and I call plot hole on this one.
Don't get me wrong. Love that scene. But it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Except everyone assumed Arya was dead, and had for a long time--especially in the isolationist Vale.
You're standing guard there, someone comes up and claims to be related to who you're guarding. You express sympathies and expect for them to be affected. Instead the person who is supposed to be related laughs in your face about the death you expected her to be affected by.
If I were that guard, I'd assume that the girl is an imposter, as that's not a reaction I'd expect from the actual Arya Stark (elsewise why did I extend those sympathies). You dismiss imposters and chase them off.
I've seen that scenario play out a good number of times in real life but especially in film and TV. I think it stands up to itself based solely on Arya's ironic laughter planting enough doubt. As that Vale guard clearly thought the real Arya Stark would be affected by news of her aunt's death. The fact that she instead bursts into laughter about it, that alone is cause enough to doubt that she's who she says she is.
Arya looks and sounds like a Stark. The Mountain is far from inconspicuous, and is not to be made light of following rumors of him abandoning KL. Combine that with talk of runaway Stark daughters (Sansa and Arya...Lyanna before them), and I call plot hole on this one.
Don't get me wrong. Love that scene. But it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Except everyone assumed Arya was dead, and had for a long time--especially in the isolationist Vale.
You're standing guard there, someone comes up and claims to be related to who you're guarding. You express sympathies and expect for them to be affected. Instead the person who is supposed to be related laughs in your face about the death you expected her to be affected by.
If I were that guard, I'd assume that the girl is an imposter, as that's not a reaction I'd expect from the actual Arya Stark (elsewise why did I extend those sympathies). You dismiss imposters and chase them off.
I've seen that scenario play out a good number of times in real life but especially in film and TV. I think it stands up to itself based solely on Arya's ironic laughter planting enough doubt. As that Vale guard clearly thought the real Arya Stark would be affected by news of her aunt's death. The fact that she instead bursts into laughter about it, that alone is cause enough to doubt that she's who she says she is.
The Vale doesn't seem to trust much they hear from KL.
I see understand reasoning, and it makes sense, but I don't see how the show conveyed that scenario...
"I can see it. You have more of the north in you than your brothers."
Except everyone assumed Arya was dead, and had for a long time--especially in the isolationist Vale.
You're standing guard there, someone comes up and claims to be related to who you're guarding. You express sympathies and expect for them to be affected. Instead the person who is supposed to be related laughs in your face about the death you expected her to be affected by.
If I were that guard, I'd assume that the girl is an imposter, as that's not a reaction I'd expect from the actual Arya Stark (elsewise why did I extend those sympathies). You dismiss imposters and chase them off.
I've seen that scenario play out a good number of times in real life but especially in film and TV. I think it stands up to itself based solely on Arya's ironic laughter planting enough doubt. As that Vale guard clearly thought the real Arya Stark would be affected by news of her aunt's death. The fact that she instead bursts into laughter about it, that alone is cause enough to doubt that she's who she says she is.
The Vale doesn't seem to trust much they hear from KL.
I see understand reasoning, and it makes sense, but I don't see how the show conveyed that scenario...
I won't argue with that! That's the problem IMO, they assumed it was obvious enough that it didn't need to be shown. What they needed was to extend the scene with the guards actually dismissing them from the bloody gate, but they cut it off before that happened.