The divide between Arya and Sansa this season took one of the show’s most poignant and plausible human conflicts - two sisters, diametrically opposed since childhood, struggling to reconnect after years of separate trauma - and ramped it up to an absurd extreme.
That’s right: Last night, the Stark sisters were finally doin’ it for themselves.Īnd really, what a relief.
Nope: The sisters were actually teaming up to take down Littlefinger, the architect of many of the show’s mostly dastardly deeds, and to finally make good on that ‘Lone Wolf Dies But the Pack Survives’ family motto that Ned used to screen print on their T-shirts. Sansa wasn’t planning to have Arya strung up by her ankles for infringing on her Lady of the North Status. Arya wasn’t actually planning to slice off her big sister’s face and use it as a prop in some demented “Mask Off” lip-sync contest. Spoilers for the Game of Thrones season finale below.Īfter teasing us with four episodes of bitter sisterly feuding, on last night’s Game of Thrones finale, we finally learned what Sansa and Arya’s long game was.
