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It's been a while since Arya Stark wasn't one of the most lethal characters on Game of Thrones. From her time in Winterfell, to her time traveling with the hound, and her time becoming No One and training with Jaqen H'ghar, we've seen her go from an eager child to a very dangerous adult. Yet, it was still a complete stunner when Arya flew out of nowhere at the end of "The Long Night" to dramatically stab The Night King in the chest, taking his entire dead army out with him.
With what was surely a busy night, morning, and afternoon since the episode has aired, actress Maisie Williams (who plays Arya on Thrones) has finally reacted to the episode with a post on her Instagram.
"how am feeling after that episode. not today bby ," Williams said, posting a slideshow that includes a short video of her costar Sophie Turner rapping along to Soulja Boy's seminal 2007 classic "Crank That" while punching a snowball off the roof of a castle, next to a photo of the Night King himself with an E.T. looking finger.
View this post on Instagram how am feeling after that episode. not today bby A post shared by Maisie Williams (@maisie_williams) on Apr 29, 2019 at 12:44pm PDT
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At first, Williams herself even expressed her doubts about Arya being the one to take out The Night King. "I immediately thought that everybody would hate it; that Arya doesnt deserve it," she told Entertainment Weekly . "The hardest thing is in any series is when you build up a villain thats so impossible to defeat and then you defeat them. It has to be intelligently done because otherwise people are like, Well, [the villain] couldnt have been that bad when some 100-pound girl comes in and stabs him. You gotta make it cool. And then I told my boyfriend and he was like, Mmm, should be Jon though really, shouldnt it?
Eventually, she came around to the idea, though, thanks in part to a call back to, and reunion with Melisandre. "When we did the whole bit with Melisandre, I realized the whole scene with [the Red Woman] brings it back to everything Ive been working for over these past 6 seasons-4 if you think about it since [Arya] got to the House of Black and White," she said. "It all comes down to this one very moment. Its also unexpected and thats what this show does. So then I was like, F*ck you Jon, I get it.
Williams is also launching her own podcast, Thinking Big with Maisie Williams, today-good timing, I would assume. In the first episode, she interviews Loyle Carner, a British hip-hop artist. You can listen to the that right here .