- There's more to Arya's Game of Thrones
prophecy than you think.
Another week, another episode of Game of Thrones gone.
We've reached the halfway point of Thrones final season
with episode 70 called, The Long Night.
Now, this installment had long been set up
as the dreaded battle of Winterfell.
There was fire, ice, death and so much more
but before we get into everything that went down,
we're giving you a spoiler warning so
if you haven't watched the episode yet,
this might be a good time to make like Bran
and ward your way out of here before you get stabbed
by any of these icy, icy spoilers.
(Foreboding note)
Like we said, this episode
was all about the Battle of Winterfell,
the final confrontation of the Night King
and his frostbitten forces versus Jon Snow, Dany,
and their Winterfell all-stars
and as expected, we did get our fair share of deaths.
Pour one out for Theon, Jorah, Lyanna, Beric,
Melisandre, Dolorous Edd and Viserion,
but the episode wasn't all about the endings.
The show also dangles some intriguing threads
for how three remaining episodes might play out.
Previously the Night King had been set up
as the series Big Bad
but in the long night, he got snoked hard
and the finishing blow came courtesy
of the girl with no name.
That's right.
It's Arya Stark, coming in from half court
with a Valyrian steel skyhook.
She drops the rock
but she picks it back up on the rebound
and the shot is good!
(sirens blare)
Winterfell wins the big game!
(ding)
Of course, the Red Priestess had just teased
this out in the scene prior with
a remix of her season three prophecy,
where she originally told Arya,
"I see a darkness in you,
and in that darkness, eyes staring back at me."
- [Melisandre] Brown eyes, blue eyes, green eyes.
Eyes you'll shut forever.
- Emphasis on the blue eyes sported
by our pal the Night King.
But what if there was more
to that prophecy than we thought?
What if it didn't just end
at Old Selsun Blue?
Whose other eyes could Melisandre be referring to?
We have theory and we're gonna break it down now.
Brown eyes could refer to any number
of people Arya has killed since brown eyes
are pretty freaking common.
But in all likelihood,
it was meant to reference one
of the big early names on her hit list,
like Meryn Trant, the dude who killed her sword instructor,
or Walder Frey, the old man
who Red Weddinged half the Stark clan.
Blue eyes, Night King. Move on.
The green eyes.
Now who could those green eyes belong to?
Well you probably don't need
the Lord of Light to tell you that there's currently
a green-eyed monster sitting on the Iron Throne.
And now it looks like she's the real Big Bad
this whole thing has been building up to.
You guessed it.
Cersei has emerald eyes, and those are most likely
the green peepers Melisandre is talking about.
Sounds like Arya still has
a little more stabby-stabby to do
to fulfill that prophecy,
and that's going to take her all
the way to the Throne Room at King's Landing
to finish off Cersei.
And when you think about it,
that kinda makes sense.
Arya has been killing her way across Essos
and Westeros for the past few seasons,
making good headway on her list
of people she wants to murk,
either by killing them like Meryn Trant,
and Walder Frey or by making peace with them,
like her weird friendship with the Hound.
But there's one person who's been on her list
since the very beginning who is very, very much alive
and just so happens to be
the biggest threat to the combined Stark
and Targaryen forces, Cersei Lannister.
But, of course, we know what you're saying right now.
Hey, Nerdist News.
What about that other famous Game of Thrones prophecy,
the one that says Cersei will be killed
by little brother, AKA, the Valonqar.
Well, we might counter that by pointing out
that prophecy only appears in the books
and not the shows so it might not be applicable here.
But if that prophecy is still in play,
it doesn't necessarily negate the possibility
that Arya will kill Cersei.
For one thing, Arya still has those face-stealing skills
that she picked up from the Faceless Man.
She could easily get close to Cersei
in the guise of Tyrion or Jaime,
who both technically qualify as her little brother,
and then shank her.
Maybe Maggie the Frog,
the fortune teller who delivered
the Little Brother prophecy,
did really foresee Cersei's death,
but didn't realize the killer was actually Arya in a mask.
But maybe there's another way to still interpret
the whole little brother thing.
Think way, way back to season two,
when Arya was pretending to be a boy
in order to make it safely through Westeros
after her father was executed for supposed treason.
During that storyline,
Arya acquires a very unexpected ally,
Tywin Lannister, Cersei's Dad.
Tywin takes Arya under his wing for a few episodes,
not realizing that she's a Stark
but he did figure out that she's not a boy
and imparts upon her a lot of the wisdom
that starts her down her path to becoming
the cold, calculating person that she is today.
It's not exactly the most healthy family dynamic
but in a weird way,
Arya does become a surrogate son to Tywin
for that short period of time,
meaning you could kind of look at Cersei
as her surrogate sister.
Not exactly blood related
but both shaped by Tywin's stern,
affectionless parenting style.
This is thing but still possible.
It is worth noting that while this theory could be true,
it's not necessarily the only possible outcome for this.
Arya scored a huge win this week
and we're betting the show might want
to save some glory and renown for somebody else.
Plus while it would be narratively satisfying
for Arya to kill Cersei, it would be even more poignant
to have her brother lover Jaime or Tyrion
to finally pull the trigger,
especially now that Cersei has sent Bronn out
to kill the both of them.
No matter what happens,
Cersei is definitely in danger from any number
of enemies and Arya's just proven herself
to be a legitimately deadly threat.
We'll have to wait and see how everything unfolds
in the final three episodes.
But what do you folks think?
Could Arya be the little brother that kills Cersei?
Are there any other green-eyed meanies
in Westeros that we might've forgotten about,
and do you think Cersei has managed to get
those elephants that she wanted yet?
- I wanted those elephants.
- I mean, she just wants the Iron Throne and elephants.
Why is that so hard?
Let's discuss.
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