Post by whitewolfstark on Apr 10, 2016 23:01:28 GMT
When I was watching Season 4 with AH.Com folks, they had all been excited by the prospect in their alternate timelines of the possibility of Brienne and the Hound. When this episode with its fight came out... the disappointment was very palpable.
But that's one thing I like about ASOIAF & GOT. People who might otherwise work together, don't for stupid reasons that make sense to them.
Post by whitewolfstark on Apr 10, 2016 23:07:50 GMT
And now, on the X number of times I've viewed the Hound's death scene, I think I realized what they were trying to go for. The reason Arya doesn't kill him, is because she pities him too much and sees through his outer veneer, not in spite of it.
She listens as he lies and tries to paint himself once again as this merciless killer, but all she can see is how damaged a man he is, and as such he doesn't deserve a quick death, but at the same time he doesn't deserve her loyalty anymore either.
Post by whitewolfstark on Apr 10, 2016 23:29:17 GMT
I knew when Maisie Williams said that the last shot of Season 4 was going to be a "hero shot" or something along those lines in a pre-Season 4 interview, I knew it would end with her on the ship.
Why? Because of the ending sequence from The Truman Show (1998) played in my head immediately thereafter, which begins with Christoph (a TV and Film producer/show runner) saying when finally finding the fleeing Truman on a boat with him sailing majestically towards the horizon, saying: "there, there's our hero shot".