‘Arya Doesn’t Deserve It’: Maisie Williams’ Thoughts On GoT’s Most Controversial Moment

Many fans would support this sentiment.

Unfortunately, not even the best TV shows are safe from being ruined by terrible finales. While some Game of Thrones fans are grateful for a truly wild ride with the show, others are still bitter about the way things ended.

With so many options available to the writers, viewers feel that they did not do justice to the original story by George R. R. Martin. However, since the author himself seems to be in no hurry to finish his own franchise, fans have to make do with what they got from the show’s writers.

It’s comforting to know that the actors themselves weren’t too happy with what season 8 of Game of Thrones had in store for them. Not only could you read the disappointment on their faces at the table reads, but many have been vocal in various interviews about their concerns and brutally honest reviews of how things ended.

For example, Maisie Williams, who portrayed the youngest Stark daughter, shared her thoughts on one of her character’s pivotal moments in an interview with Entertainment Weekly:

“I immediately thought that everybody would hate it; that Arya doesn’t deserve it. The hardest thing is in any series is when you build up a villain that’s so impossible to defeat and then you defeat them. It has to be intelligently done because otherwise people are like, ‘Well, [the villain] couldn’t have been that bad when some 100-pound girl comes in and stabs him.’”

The actress was right in her sentiments, because the fans did not take it lightly.

To this day, the majority believe that Jon was meant to be born instead of Arya, and even the prequel to the series, House of the Dragon, hinted at it in the Targaryen prophecy. It turns out that William’s boyfriend at the time thought the same thing.

Unfortunately, there is no way to reshoot the finale, but fans of the franchise still have hope that the book finale will set the record straight. Keep an eye out for the official release of George R. R. Martin’s The Winds of Winter.