Game Of Thrones Season 8: 8 Huge Questions 'The Bells' Leaves Behind
5. What’s Up With The Horse
The answer to the question of what happens with Arya might lie with, of all things, a horse.
As the episode draws to a close, Arya beholds a pale white horse, and rides it out of the city. It’s the kind of moment that’s begging to be overanalysed. Is this the showrunners going for something of Biblical proportions, a la the following:
"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him."
Does that reckon with her turning away from vengeance? Maybe. There is a difference between personal revenge and killing those whose time is up. A girl understands this. If not Arya as Death, then could the white horse instead be a symbol of innocence or purity? Of Arya, for so long a killer, now being turned from a path of hatred?
Or is it just a horse?