According to a recent interview with Deadline, Game of Thrones will return to HBO with a shortened Season 7 in 2017. Now that Arya’s list of people to kill has gotten significantly smaller, fans can’t help but wonder if Arya will be the one to kill Cersei. But we shall talk about only one here.
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In George R.R. Martin’s books, Catelyn Stark (Michelle Fairley) returned from the dead as Lady Stoneheart.
Think about it: Catelyn’s two daughters have been on separate journeys across Westeros – and beyond – taking wildly divergent paths, but both growing into personalities along the way that reflect the two sides of their mother. But the season six finale did offer one scene of interest for book fans (SPOILERS FOLLOW): the pies made from Lothar and Black Walder Frey. Earlier this season, Jon Snow name-dropped Manderly as a potential house that could join their anti-Bolton army. They better watch out. Other queens won’t stand a chance against Dany’s great power; she has dragons, the Dothraki and the Unsullied. The icing on the cake was Walder Frey’s throat getting slit by Arya Stark.
While the death of Walder Frey puts Arya back into her revenge game, Maisie Williams reveals that her character will not stop until she reaches till the end of the list.
Another name on Arya’s list is that of Melisandre (Carice Van Houten), who traded her bag of gold for Gendry (Joe Dempsie), Arya’s friend, from the Brotherhood Without Banners.
It would be hard to say that Arya is Lady Stoneheart. It serves her House no goal as Jon and Sansa seek to unite the North against the threat of the White Walkers. But, as she continues to seek vengeance against those on her list, the distance between Arya and her sister grows wider, making it nearly impossible to envision a happy family reunion, even as she heads North. The newly-trained assassin is to make a comeback, and for a vengeance.
Whether or not having the ghost of Lady Stoneheart living through Arya is satisfactory probably depends on how much you wanted Lady Stoneheart in the show to begin with.
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It looked like the plate for Lady Stoneheart’s appearance was set when Walder Frey (David Bradley) spoke to Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and even the Kingslayer felt disgusted with him. Still, it certainly seems like the Lady Stoneheart storyline is being merged.
