Just average height? I’m sorry but 6’1” is not average height! Average is 5’9”! A foot difference in height is a huge advantage. But you guys are going off the course here attempting to explain this and that when the reality of it is that this is just another example of them trying to shove down our throats that women are as or more capable than men! Most of the episode regarding Arya was just making her seem more powerful than the Night King (a man), the Hound (a man), Gentry (a man), Ser Davos (a man), and many others. A clear example is when we see the Hound all scared and Beric Dondarrion shames him by pointing out to him what Arya is doing by not giving up and using her to inspire him to get back out there. We all know this is fantasy but IF it were real there is no way in hell that Arya could’ve defeated all the dead that she fought off which by the way you could only see them coming at her one at a time allowing her to display excellent form using a spear where as others had a fuckin’ tsunami coming at them. Then, the library scene where we see her avoid detection by the dead which I still don’t know what the dead use or how they are able to find people. They must be able to smell them at least. Then we have her running trying to escape the dead freely at every turn in the dark hallways while injured without encountering the dead that had already entered Winterfell. We then come to the scene where she’s fighting off like 20 dead that cause the door to come down and still they’re on top of her and she survives that because of the Hound and Beric. Poor Beric gives up his life for her and all three end up in a room where the Red Witch chick is in who also seems to have managed to live through what went down in the room assuming she was in there when it went down. Anyways, she manages to give her a pep talk while everyone else is dying in WinterHell (by now it’s Hell because it Fell).
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chrisjdel (2714)
5 years ago
Arya acquired supernatural abilities by training with the Faceless Men. Before she was simply a good fighter, for a girl her age. Afterward she had a strength and speed that was more than human. I think the wights find people by sight and sound - the same as the living. In a building with walls and floors of stone, small noises do tend to carry.
As far as her attack on the Night King, like I said earlier in this thread Maisie Williams would only have to jump a foot or two in the air to get as high on Vladimir Furdik as we see her in that shot. They used harnesses and wires to film the scene for two reasons. First, Mr. Furdik isn't strong enough to lift Maisie one handed. Second, even if he was that strong holding someone off the ground (much less snatching them out of the air mid-jump) by the throat can break their neck! Her weight had to be supported mostly by the wires, for the sake of safety. That jump was made to look more impressive than it is by shooting from a low angle.
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