I'm glad he wasn't the horse, especially since it lead to nothing in the finale, and I think him just hinting at trying to find it is better than whatever visual they'd pull out of their ass, haha
With him not being the horse though, it made that 5 minute scene of her and the horse super pointless and random. The point about the Dragon is fair though.
Wanting the horse to have plot significance is a misreading of how visual storytelling works. It was maybe the best part of that episode.
I couldn't figure out how to say this, but yeah. That was a great part of that episode but that was always just a horse that randomly survived the chaos of battle.
I saw an INCREDIBLY detailed post about how symbolic the horse was and how it was the soul of the little girl reincarnated into the “celestial being” of the horse and how that tale was one of the most beautiful and meaningful side plots in the whole show and I just could not believe my eyes. Truly one of the funniest and most grasping at straws theories I’ve ever read about the show.
this is reductive and pretentious lol no one is dumb for expecting to see Arya ride in on the horse ffs
It looked beautiful and was shot well....but it was sitting there glowing and she walked up all slow and spent so much time rubbing it down.... For it to just be random was a super weird choice in the last few hours of the entire show when they could show literally anything else. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
i dont think the horse needed to do anything and never even had the thought of "where is the horse" but saying anyone who did expect that has a misunderstanding of anything is a stretch
Usually in movies, something is only shown that will have relevance to the story down the road unless your movie just has random stuff pop in and out like Napoleon Dynamite.
It was very weird that they gave her such a long sendoff with the horse and leaving all the destruction behind but the next episode she’s just back in the city wandering around on foot. It had such a finality to it but then it wasn’t an ending at all.
My personal favorite interpretation is the one that said the horse was Nymeria but D&D forgot that she was supposed to be a wolf.
I love Arya as a character but I thought a lot of what she has done since her big moment has been completely random.
Semiotics are as vital to visual storytelling as plot. The way the horse and Arya were shot there's a clear emphasis on what it means to her in the moment, and while I'd never call this a subtle show, in this instance it doesn't quite hold your hand and, since it's not tied to plot, asks more of the viewer internally. It's one of the few times the show has landed that, usually it skips over slowed down, semiotic moments for pure "the plot needs to get from point a to point b" storytelling.
i mean you said that in response to the guy who has posted by far the most well thought out and informed criticism of the show so yeah thats definitely what i got out of it lol
i really enjoyed the episode but the sansa stuff was weird to me. like the whole “the north promised to never bend to a ruler in the south” thing. like, well yeah. when the ruler is cersei or dany, that makes sense. i’m pretty sure the north would have no problem bending the knee to a stark king haha. the whole “the north MUST be independent!!!” thing didn’t make sense to me. or, like, if sansa was the one named queen of the seven kingdoms, would the north still have been independent? i’m guessing not lol
critical and condescending are two different things "I didn't like this because it lacked _______" is critical "if you thought ________ you have a misunderstanding/misreading of ________" is condescending
I think the horse could be taken literally or metaphorically, to be honest. I don't think it's 100% either way and it's just up to the viewer. I'm not always on board with stuff like that but in this case, I think it worked well.