It's OK. It's TV. Someone had to make the pie, and it might as well be Arya.

Wait. WTF? Where did Arya get the skills to assume another face, particularly away from Braavos?

Yep. I don't see how it could have been made more clear.

Yeah, when I saw the Dorne crew in the "Previously" segment, I yelled at the TV: Dammit! I can't believe they're going back to Dorne. I had hoped Dorne was gone for good.

Hey, how the hell did Arya make it to the Crossing so fast to do in Walder Frey?

Actually, Tommen went out like Denethor in "The Return of the King" (movie version, of course).

Hey, Tyrion didn't do too badly as Hand of the King. He actually did a pretty damned good job as Hand of the King in bad circumstances. He got a scar and screwed over by his father for his efforts.

Eventually, probably yes.

Totally!

I have to admit, so did I.

Again (as I've had to say this before), in fantasy, for fantasy reader or viewer willingly suspends disbelief for certain things, such as the aforementioned dragons and wights and wargs and witches and white walkers because they are magical things or mythical beasts. However, for everything else, we generally expect…

Although unlikely, given how tough The Hound is, his survival was definitely more plausible than Arya's survival. I've taken care of people who have survived falls like that.

Sure it makes sense. In fantasy, you accept some magical and impossible elements (that's what fantasy is, after all), but you still expect everything else that isn't magical or fantastical to function as you would normally expect. Arya so easily surviving multiple knife wounds to the abdomen without surgery to repair…

As a surgeon, I just couldn't buy Arya's recovering from multiple stab wounds to the abdomen, one of which involved twisting the blade. Unless you have enough blubber that the blade doesn't make it into the abdominal cavity, which Arya doesn't, such a stabbing would have a 99% likelihood of putting at least one…

I know. Magic or SOME explanation is needed.

As a surgeon, I just couldn't buy Arya's recovering from multiple stab wounds to the abdomen, one of which involved twisting the blade. Unless you have enough blubber that the blade doesn't make it into the abdominal cavity, which Arya doesn't, such a stabbing would have a 99% likelihood of putting at least one…

Why not both? :-)

I repeat: If Bear dies, we riot.

If Bear dies, we riot.

I'd say his fear goes back even to season one.