Arya being a Mary Sue has nothing to do with training or gender It has to do with her defeating a whole army with one blow in a war the entire show had been building up to and throwing out years of Beyond the Wall plot If Gendry had done that it would have been just as dumb
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Arya's narrative arc has been a quest for ultimate revenge on the people who ruined her life - the Lannisters, and in particular, Cersei Lannister. Arya going after Queen Cersei, who killed her father, is what her story has worked to since the very beginning
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Instead, HBO decided to insert her character into the overall narrative arc of the Night's King, the "Big Bad" of the series, who has spent years facing off against Jon Snow, and recently Daenerys. Jon's narrative has been building to take on the Night's King and restore the Pact
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Dany and Jon joining forces to defeat the Night's King would have fulfilled this narrative arc, whether at Winterfell or in King's Landing. However, D&D decided to reduce their writing to tumblr-fanfic levels and have Arya jump out of a tree to save the day Deux ex Mary Sue
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I'm so old I remember when entertainment was an escape from endless political arguments.
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What better way to show her determination for revenge than to destroy an army of the dead who would rob her of every future chance to exact said revenge?
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Because the night king didnt kill anyone she cared about????
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Reported for hate speech.
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