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masterpug53 posted...

I remember quite well the week between eps of Arya getting knifed and Arya confronting the Waif / leaving the Faceless Men. Fan theories and conspiracies were running a mile a minute: "There's no way that was Arya, it had to be a patsy somehow wearing Arya's face to lure the Waif out!" Because there was just no way - no...fucking...way - that the show / writers would be so profoundly stupid as to have things play out at face-value.

I personally think it was because arya suddenly became a talented mega ninja on par with jaqen hgaar at the same time as bran suddenly becoming an all knowing wise seer after just a couple episodes, not even a training montage to at least show development of each's respective super powers. So it was really jarring. Then for the rest of the series both are rolling around with laughably cringe stoic faces and given the direction that "no emote means very cool beans" by the showrunners I'm assuming.