...only an assassin.
I don´t understand those that are unhappy with Arya being the one to bring down the night king. The scene was set up perfectly set up for her by Bran, Melisandre, Berric, Jaqen and herself.
We see a great battle and good ideas and great fighting from the living. Everything seems to come to a climax, when Jon faces the Night King. But the Night King is not interested in one on one battle. He sees no reason to risk his "life" in a direct fight with a very skilled swordsman, when he has so many other powers he can use instead. He just raises those that have defeated his army from the dead and makes them his as well. In the following scenes we see how all these heroic efforts were futile when your enemy can just reproduce his army in the middle of the battle. The night king is absolutely undefeatable by any army in a battle. The only way to defeat him is to kill him directly. And the only way to do this, is to use the silent, deadly, cunning, surprising way of an assassin.
And who is the best assassin in Westeros, who trained most of their life to take lives silently, to move around unnoticed, to never look like the obvious warrior? Arya is the one person who is small, silent and quick enough to get near to the Night King without being noticed by his White Walkers. Who get´s close enough and has a Plan B in her (other) hand when being noticed in the last second.
She is a perfect fit to defeat the Night King and while the Hound and Berric defend her, the Red Woman sends her on her path, Bran sets up the perfect trap for the Night King by luring him into a closed surrounding unbeknown by anyone present other than Bran and Arya who know every inch of it. He gave her the dagger for a purpose as he had planned it to play out exactly like that.
The end (?) of the Night King has been done by a heroine that was built up to become this destined assassin from season one. For me it is a great pay off of one of the greatest character developments in television.
I don´t understand those that are unhappy with Arya being the one to bring down the night king. The scene was set up perfectly set up for her by Bran, Melisandre, Berric, Jaqen and herself.
We see a great battle and good ideas and great fighting from the living. Everything seems to come to a climax, when Jon faces the Night King. But the Night King is not interested in one on one battle. He sees no reason to risk his "life" in a direct fight with a very skilled swordsman, when he has so many other powers he can use instead. He just raises those that have defeated his army from the dead and makes them his as well. In the following scenes we see how all these heroic efforts were futile when your enemy can just reproduce his army in the middle of the battle. The night king is absolutely undefeatable by any army in a battle. The only way to defeat him is to kill him directly. And the only way to do this, is to use the silent, deadly, cunning, surprising way of an assassin.
And who is the best assassin in Westeros, who trained most of their life to take lives silently, to move around unnoticed, to never look like the obvious warrior? Arya is the one person who is small, silent and quick enough to get near to the Night King without being noticed by his White Walkers. Who get´s close enough and has a Plan B in her (other) hand when being noticed in the last second.
She is a perfect fit to defeat the Night King and while the Hound and Berric defend her, the Red Woman sends her on her path, Bran sets up the perfect trap for the Night King by luring him into a closed surrounding unbeknown by anyone present other than Bran and Arya who know every inch of it. He gave her the dagger for a purpose as he had planned it to play out exactly like that.
The end (?) of the Night King has been done by a heroine that was built up to become this destined assassin from season one. For me it is a great pay off of one of the greatest character developments in television.