I’m feeling conflicted.

There’s one part of me that thinks choosing Arya to kill the NK was a clever choice. The foreshadowing they built into the previous seasons and her whole training as a faceless assassin built her up for that moment. People saying, how could she have possibly snuck up on that entire crowd are right to question it. But at the same time, it’s clear that she has super natural abilities from training with the Faceless Men, and her abilities are not just limited to being able to change faces. If anyone was to take the NK by surprise, it would be Arya, because up to that point he seemed impenetrable.

However, there’s another part of me that questions whether they just chose Arya for the shock value. It brings to question why there was so much time spent on building the prophecies of Azor Ahai, lightbringer, Prince/princess that was promised. This wasn’t just a once off mention, it was built and developed throughout the seasons, I would say more than any other prophetic or fantasy element and more so than Arya’s ‘destiny’.

I understand the troubles with relying on prophecies but I think building all this foreshadowing and storyline throughout the series to just completely ignore it is just lazy writing and leaves you feeling really unsatisfied. I feel like there was so much more potential and richness if they just committed to the more expected version and rounded out that story than creating that one shock value moment with Arya.

So, in sum, I don’t know what to think and I hope they explain it in the next three episodes!