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Originally Posted by chopstick
If you think Arya is going to kill any of those soldiers, you completely missed the point of that scene.
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I thought the scene was intentionally creating tension over whether she would kill them or not. She is clearly a bit conflicted about it. It sounds like some people watched the scene and asked whether the soldiers were going to hurt her, but I don't think that was ever the question. It's clear that she is much more dangerous to them than they are to her. She is aware of guest rights and of the fact they aren't trying to hurt her, but she still understands them as enemies.
Maybe her saying she's going to kill the queen was her way of trying to start something, or testing to see their response. And maybe the fact they laughed it off means they get to live, and that was the decision point. Is that your reading?
I do think she will end up killing at least one of them. And I think it's morally ambiguous - they showed no aggression to her and are clearly relative innocents. But they are also part of an occupying army of her family's sworn enemy. That's fair game.
It also wouldn't surprise me if they leave it ambiguous and then the soldiers factor in to the plot later - either by showing up alive at an important moment, or showing up as a face that she wears to cross someone off her list.
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