[Honolulu_Blue]

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

I dunno if "dislike" is the right word. I think there's a prevailing feeling out there in the land of readers that are sort of...i dunno...for lack of a better word, sick of her maybe? People feel like the stuff that is happening to her is just way unrealistic or something. Might also be because her POV starts to more significantly diverge from the main storyline and maybe it interrupts people's "flow".

I dunno - I don't have a problem with the Arya POV as much as I do with some of the others. I hope that doesn't really give anything for you. I toyed with putting a spoiler tag on it, but it doesn't really tell you much.

I've never heard of this dislike for Arya. I always thought that she was one of the POV's people liked the most. I know there's a ton of hate out there for Sansa, Catelyn, and Cersei... But Arya? Huh.

I've always enjoyed Arya's chapters, even in Feast where she starts to veer off a bit from what's going on in Westeros...

Spoiler

But Martin has been setting up the whole Arya as "Faceless Man" thing for a while, even before she met Jaqen Hagar. Her constant adoption of different identities (Arry, Weasle, Arya, Salty, etc.) and fascination with killing people have constant themes for the character. Her time with the Hound was classic.

I think the biggest problem facing Martin (and I don't think this is unique to Arya really) is how to make her relevant. Sure, making her a "Faceless Man" is a super cool idea, but to make it at all realistic it would take years and years.

I think he's in a similar boat with Tyrion.

Spoiler

Tyrion is super clever, but, really, the only thing that made him what he was was beinng a Lannister, which, for all intents and purposes, he's not anymore.

Martin's written himself into quite a few corners it seems.