Timeline for Why did Arya just walk away instead of killing this character?
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| Jul 2, 2014 at 19:51 | vote | accept | prawn | ||
| Jun 21, 2014 at 21:37 | comment | added | TLP | In the books, it is clear that she it conflicted. One time she leaves his name off her list, thinks about it for a while, then adds it back in. I believe she says something like "You should have saved my mother" and then leaves, which I interpreted as her not wanting to admit to the weakness of not being able to kill him. The TV-show is showing Arya as very cool and callous, borrowing from the Mercy excerpt from The Winds of Winter, so its possible they went for that version instead. | |
| Jun 21, 2014 at 18:24 | comment | added | Andres F. | @TLP That's definitely not the vibe I got from the TV series, and not the vibe I remember from the books either. She doesn't say "sorry, I cannot do it". She doesn't look troubled at the prospect of killing her friend. Arya looks at Sandor with cold disgust. To me, it's clear she's thinking he doesn't deserve mercy. | |
| Jun 21, 2014 at 7:43 | comment | added | TLP | Or she just could not bring herself to do it, because they had become friends. | |
| Jun 20, 2014 at 23:25 | history | answered | Andres F. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |