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"A GIRL IS ARYA STARK OF WINTERFELL, AND I'M GOING HOME."

An okay episode overall but the storyline of Arya Stark highly DISAPPOINTING & full of plot holes. The makers could have added so many dimensions it but it just remained one- dimensional. They failed to take advantage of the potential that her story arc had. And regarding Daenerys, we are confused whether she is a hero, anti-hero or villain. Her motives are not clear at all. Rest of the story moved with decent pace with nothing much interesting to add.

Just waiting for the final two episodes of the season which the makers are claiming to be very high paced.

#FingersCrossed

Not a bad episode, but I have to wonder why the Arya vs. The Waif conflict had to culminate in a silly and over the top chase scene, in broad daylight, in a crowded market place, with dozens and dozens of witnesses. Not to do spoilers, but how would the waif have explained all this to her boss?

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"A man wants to know what has happened." Walking slowly down the stairs within his shadowy temple, the gorgeous robed priest confronted the prim blonde with the haughty, sadistic-teen allure.

"I got her," mumbled the waif. "I got the spoiled little girl just the way you told me to. I stabbed her right in the street!"

"A man tells a girl to kill another girl. A man assumes that a girl is not an idiot. A man assumes that after years of training in sneaking up on people and wearing other people's faces, that a girl will do her business quickly and quietly, where no-one can see. A man does not expect a girl to run through the marketplace in broad daylight, waving her arms and knocking things over and acting like a crazy person."

"But I had to catch her," the waif whined. "She ran away instead of just falling over and dying after being stabbed twenty times."

"What does a girl expect? A girl is supposedly a trained assassin, yet she runs all around town like a track star, jumping over wagons and leaping across fruit baskets, scattering produce and generating potential lawsuits for our shadowy temple. A melon merchant wants payment. And a man is fed up with a girl's stupid mistakes."

"What does a man wish to do with a girl?" asked the waif.

"A girl has failed. Now a man wants to put on his favorite mask."

The waif was suddenly breathless. "You mean you're going to be the lustful Mad King? Or cruel teen degenerate King Geoffrey?"

"No. A man will be Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore."

The life of Arya in the womb of huge challenge. The life of a castle or the life of a father. The life of relations and new life of a comunity under the words of Red Priests. But, more important, the life of relation between a too young king and his mother. An episode who deserves many definitions, to cruel to ambiguous or dramatic. But who propose many questions. And this small virtue remains the most significant.

It's a shame about the whole Arya thing. We have never seen her as supernatural, but in a Wile E Coyote kind of way, she keeps bouncing back, even though she has been brutally stabbed. Her wounds should have been utterly debilitating but she swims, runs, goes on the offensive. Even in the most dramatic fantasy, there have to be rules. Aside from her story, the rest is pretty good development of times and plot lines, more exposition. There is some nice revenge stuff. Cersei is becoming more and more interesting, even though she is ultimately ruthless. The forces are up for alliances or forced compliance, and so going into the ninth of the season, I have great interest. Tyrion at times gets a little tiresome with his indulgences. He seems so focused on being drunk all the time. But he still manages to function well. Dani is out there and things are going to get hot, literally. Not the best of episodes but a necessary one.

The episode is not boring, this episode has a story, the action is a little less but there is a story. Here is the story of a man who never made friends in his life but suddenly agreed to kill a man and die for a friend he found. This episode speaks of a king who can do anything for the love of his sister. Here is a guardian who has defended his homeland with his own life. Here is a story about a girl whose life has no end to conflict. The story of how they found the real entity is in the episode. The episode is by no means boring, you just have to watch the episode with a little patience. This episode has meant something that is really very important to understand.