![]() Yet Arya is eerily calm and controlled about sex with Gendry. I wonder where all those feelings have gone, now that Arya’s back at Winterfell certainly, if she’s trying to get close to someone she cares about on the last night of her life, you’d think that some of them would come spilling out. Nearly every other female character on Game of Thrones has been defined by such an experience two of the show’s youngest female characters, Sansa and Dany, were both forced into marriage at a precocious age precisely because they were deemed to be post-pubescent. In the non-fantasy realm, it corresponds to plummeting self-confidence the mechanics of menstruation can force some girls out of physical activities they once enjoyed, one week out of every four. Puberty is, of course, a crucially transformative time for girls-and it comes with a host of negative side effects. Many viewers don’t see the character as an adult woman because the show hasn’t given us the arc of a preteen or pubescent girl, though it has given us similar story lines via Sansa-who, to her dismay, got her period for the first time in Season 2-and Ygritte, who in Season 3 proved her mettle to Jon Snow by pointing out that “girls see more blood than boys.” ![]() She’s never spoken about menstruation, or her changing body, or her new, weird feelings. What’s most perplexing here is that while Arya has murdered, spied, escaped, and infiltrated-with the unnerving, cold heart of an assassin-we’ve never actually seen her go through the oft-wrenching process of female-bodied puberty. ![]() “Obviously, Tommen grew up really fast.” (The eventual boy king was first played by child actor Callum Wharry from Season 4 until the character’s death, he was played by the older Dean-Charles Chapman.)īut there’s a huge difference between announcing, via tweet, that a character has reached the age of maturity and writing a character arc over eight seasons that makes this maturity obvious. “Obviously, the passage of time is murky on the show for lots of reasons,” veteran Thrones producer (and this episode’s writer) Bryan Cogman conceded in a conversation with V.F.’s Still Watching podcast on Monday. Take, for instance, Gilly’s baby, living proof of the show’s confusing timeline: Little Sam was born in Season 3, but still appears to be a babe in arms as of Season 8-maybe a toddler, at most. Initially, the show was painstakingly careful to create a realistic sense of time for the viewer-remember how long it took the Starks to get to King’s Landing? As it’s outpaced the books and been forced to plot its own journey, those fine details have given way. (It’s much easier to make time move slowly when child actors aren’t growing like weeds in front of your eyes.) On the show, Arya was aged up to 11 for the first season thanks to Williams’s gamine face, she’s plausibly seemed to be a young teenager ever since.Įspecially in recent seasons, the way this show has measured the passage of years has been. Martin books, the story begins when the character is just nine years old, and she’s barely aged over the course of five novels. Game of Thrones has played fast and loose with time and space, and Arya’s age specifically. But still, for a large subset of the population, there’s something that sticks out about this scene. It’s great to see Arya getting hers, if this is what she wants, and certainly she deserves some happiness where she can find it. ![]() Change the setting a bit, and it’s an episode of Grey’s Anatomy. Two people who have been staring at each other for a few seasons finally getting it on when their fear of losing each other overrides everything else-that’s TV Drama 101. In every other way, this story is kind of classic. “Hang on-how old is Arya Stark?” Is a question you might have asked yourself Sunday night, when the teenage assassin played by Maisie Williams jumped the bones of noted Westeros hottie Gendry ( Joe Dempsie) on what might be the last night of their lives. ![]()
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