Analysis: Why was it so uncomfortable to watch Arya’s sex scene in 'Game of Thrones'?
“Arya Stark age” and “Maisie Williams age.” While it seems the sex was all perfectly legal — Arya is 11 years old in the first season, making her 18 when things heat up in the forge — viewers have watched Arya grow up on screen. Many compared the scene toWill ‘Game of Thrones’ right its wrongs by the finale?But our inclination to look away from potentially underage sex is only part of what made for such awkward viewing.
With Arya, the awkwardness stems partly from a lack of information about her gender identity and sexual orientation. Throughout the show, the audience is left to wonder: Does Arya identify as a woman? Is she queer? Does she like guys, or girls, or both? Perhaps viewers are still not completely comfortable not having answers to those questions. And they did not expect answers to come via an abrupt and completely unexpected sex scene.
From the very first episode — when Arya runs out of her needlework class to shoot arrows with her brothers — we know she’s a proud tomboy. After her father, Ned Stark, dies, she disguises herself as she travels north from King’s Landing, pretending to be a boy. When she breaks off on her own, traversing the countryside with the Hound and crossing the narrow sea to Bravos, she continues to avoid any overtly feminine clothing, except when dressing up to serve the many-faced God .
As viewers, we don’t know how to picture Arya in a romantic relationship or a sexual situation, because — before the last episode, when her gazeon Gendry just long enough to make it clear she might be interested — she’s never really dropped any hints about the kind of partner she would seek out. For most of the series, she is traveling alone, relentlessly and single-mindedly pursuing people on her hit list.
As with any conceivable romantic connection in a series as popular as “Game of Thrones,” there is a corner of the Internet that has believed deeply in “” for years. But before this final season, so far as I can tell from watching an array of Gendry-Arya tribute videos on YouTube, Gendrya hinged entirely on a brief friendship when Arya was 12, and something Robert Baratheon, former ruler of the Seven Kingdoms, said to Ned Stark in the series’s first episode: “I have a son, you have a daughter.
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