That's really cool how they created this whole side character and back story to give Arya this amazing skill that she only got to use a couple of times to check some names off her list and then never mention it again.
Dumb noobs. The show went ahead of the books and had no material to base the series on so they had to make shit up New book still hasn't released to this date, and frankly never will at this point
If we GOT fans don't stop this, we are all going to be speaking like that. "A man has to go work, a man must do work that he does not like, a man needs a woman to please him"
A man is just watching all GOT clips to reminisce his old college days. Back then, the man binge watched the first 3 season of the shows in 2 nights without any worries. The man has got office in the morning. So the man might go to sleep after this.
He was sooo creepy yet captivating at the same time. A really giant shame they wasted his character so badly. After season 5, he basically just disappeared.
Zahara, of course the books are better. We never get to see in the show how many faceless men there are and how outstanding is Jaqen when compared to the rest of them. All of the lessons Arya gets in the House of Black and White have a point.
Hgar has to potentially be the most dangerous character in all of GOT. And its befitting considering his enigmatic nature which makes most overlook these facts.
Who is this Jaqen you refer to? The one she met in season 2? The guy who morphed from the black dude when she was at the door? The guy who died in this last scene by poisoning himself? The guy who morphed from the waif back into the face of "Jaqen"? He can't be the most dangerous character if you are referring to multiple people and thinking they are the same guy. All faceless men can use the face you think of Jaqen, so who knows how many faceless men we have met already. One? Two? Three?
I think Jagen is himself, changing faces like Arya learned to do. When she saw him dead and pulled off faces then found her own face that was magic. She learned it too.
The many faced man was training Arya not just to fight but to lie! He knew she would always be Arya Stark. He told her before she even went there that she could finish her list if she came with him. He knew that was her intent the entire time. It's why the Waif kept saying you'll never be one of us. Because it was true! They both knew Arya would always stay Arya. The man knew the entire time she would end up going back to Westoros. The whole losing eyesight was a plan by the man also. He knew it would give her an edge she needed for the future. And that Arya would lie to get her eyesight back. Her lie was convincing enough (to the point she even believed it or else she wouldn't have drank the death water) so she got her sight back. The whole game of faces is about being a convincing liar.
The Cult of the Many Faced God, behave much like the Cult of the Lord of Light. Especially the Faceless Men. Except, the Faceless Men serve quietly, unlike the Red Priests/Priestesses of Ashai who shout their sermons and prophecies. The Faceless Men also clearly follow prophecies, and understand their role in bringing about the fate of an individual. Apparently they can refuse hit contracts without giving a reason. Considering their ability to literally murder ANYONE no matter how high profile, the only possible explanation is that they will refuse kill a person whose time they believe has not yet come. They are reallt adamant in following their cult rules as we saw when Arya first met Jaquen, where he demanded Arya give 3 names for him to kill because she saved 3 souls from their sealed fates and therefore had owed a debt of life to their Many Faced God. With that in mind, i think it's why they were willing to train Arya. Could be that they are in the know with the Azor Ahai Prophecy and understood that it was her, like Melissandre had understood when she saw Arya and said she was going to shut Blue Eyes forever. Otherwise there was no need to train Arya when they knew she wouldn't become one of them anyway. It was obvious they knew from the beginning. They even taught Arya that she shouldn't prevent or dole out their "gift" haphazardly otherwise reprecussions will occur, like when she was supposed to kill the corrupt guy in the Port but didn't and killed Meryn Trant instead (a soul that was supposed to die, was replaced by another who wasn't supposed to die yet) so Jaquen drank the poison right up on her face. Or when she was to kill the woman in the play but didn't.
Well is possible because Sirio is kill like a common man and Jaquen Hgar is ARRESTED by guards like he is a common criminal 😂 Perhaps the man wants to Arya kill all the other gods . . . like the Sea god
As soon as me & my siblings first saw Jaqen, we said almost simultaneously, “that guys German” ….. and sure enough, actor Thomas Wlaschiha is. Amazing how he speaks so many languages, Russian, English , Italian, German , French , and idk what all. Amazing ….
Jaqen's theme in the soundtrack has always been my favourite one. It's just Lord of the Rings level of perfection and fantasy and mystery and everything. Just pure perfection.
@@itsapurvajha well I mean, there's a theory littlefinger might still be alive and that he is actually a faceless man because his father was from Bravos and he mentions the facelessmen, also he made a deal with a strange woman in winterfell right before he died and gave her a 'coin'....so did Arya kill Littlefinger or the woman....🤷♂️
So glad they finally explained the significance of the Faceless Men and their role in the whole GOT saga. We were waiting seven seasons and finally it all makes sense.
Such a great character, and so very well cast and played. I love that so much of what he teaches her is to observe. To see the world, not look at it but see it. At a glance. And to blend in.
@@Supersquigi It's cast. Cassed is the past participle of cass, v: to render null and void. Cast is both a noun and a verb. The cast is great. We cast the film.
"there is only one god, a girl knows his name" I'm quite certain he is refering to the god of death since "all men must serve" him. When he said "a girl knows his name" I became about 97% sure Syrio Forrel is also a faceless man because he taught Aria about the god of death in season 1.
Funny how Jaqen gives arya the poison and calls it a "gift". He must have loled, thinking about the fact that "gift" means "poison" in german and Jaqen H'gahr was played by a german actor, hahaha. Coincidence surely, but a funny one nontherless
@@apikdesigns878 No it isn't. "Gift" translated to German is "Geschenk" which is also the same in my native Dutch. "Gif" is pronounced a bit like give in English just with a hard "g". Which Google translate has correct so you probably translated English into English.
He did know, didn't he? In the books I assume George RR Martin was setting up the Many Faced God and the Fire God into conflict with the Great Other, which was the god of the ice demons and the antithesis to the Lord of Light. In the TV show they kinda conflated the Great Other and the Night King, but in the book the White Walkers were these ethereal ice creatures who reanimated dead things to serve them, and the Great Other's avatar was the head of the White Walkers, called the Night King. Reanimation would be a grave insult to the God of Death of the Faceless Men, whose gift is a peaceful, permanent death, not a tortured existence as a slave to the Great Other and his White Walkers. Melisandre was quoted as thinking "Death is his domain, and the dead his soldiers" but it was a perverted form of death. So Jaqen and the Faceless Men created in Arya the ultimate weapon to destroy the Great Other's servants.
At some point I thought the whole training was not to become "no one" so to forget who you are but quite the opposite. You can only adapt to a total different persona if you exactly know who you are, so you are able to find your way back to yourself ... otherwise you would sooner or later loose yourself.
The thing is: "No One" is still a distinct person, that's the key - in this case, "No One" is a proper noun. A girl becomes No One, and No One because many people, but a girl never becomes those people because, well, it's No One. Not her. If she became all those people, she could very well lose herself in all the lies. But she's protected, shielded, behind the fact that she (Arya Stark) is still - and always will be - herself. It's an identity that takes on identities; personas, all the way down. That's why Arya wasn't ready when she was becoming the oyster seller, that's why when she took off face after face, it was HER face at the bottom. A stark reminder that the person wearing a mask must always remain behind the mask, and that "Arya" must never be the one lying.
@@cgavin1 A man got this video in his recommendation again. A man wants to let you know that he completed his hatrick But the man still managed to get passing marks in his semester exam 😎
Sadly, all the skills she learned here, where sadly criminally under utilized in season 7 and 8... She is one of the most interesting character arks in the series..
A Man once Ja’qen H’Ghar should have his own HBO show, that would be something to see, tens and tens and tens of millions would pay to watch such a show.
In the books Jaqen and the Kindly Old Man that Arya meets at the House of Black and White are two completely separate characters. In the fourth book the prologue opens with a bunch of maesters in training at Oldtown, and one of them named Pate meets a man who only calls himself "The Alchemist" and he promises Pate a gold dragon if he brings him a key that unlocks every door in the citadel. The Alchemist ends up killing Pate and steals his face and assumes his identity by the end of the book, revealing himself to be a Faceless Man, and it's heavily implied that this Faceless Man is Jaqen H'ghar. While his intentions for being at the Citadel are still unknown, many theorize that he's after the book "The Death of Dragons" which is held in the Citadel. The reasoning for this is because in the lore it is hinted that The Faceless Men were originally slaves who worked in the Mines of Valyria and that they were at least partially responsible for bringing about the Doom that ended the Valyrian Freehold. Seems the Faceless Men don't like the idea of a Valyrian descendant bringing Dragons back into the world. Much more interesting than what they had Jaqen do in the show.
Y'know, I'm sure someone's gonna come along and rail on you because "that's the point of the scene you just repeated it blah blah", but thanks, because I honestly didn't realise that until you said it. I assumed he was just intentionally inverting "truth" and "lie", trying to impart that "the truth" was now as meaningless as deception.
It was not explained in the books jet but I think that was all a plan from the faceless men. I hope we will find that out IF GRRM ever finishes the books .😔
The door is black and white because of the advanced psychology of '' Because a man i no one, a man is everyone'' Yin(No one) and Yang(Everyone), Jaqen did not die because a jaqen does not exist but a man can be everyone therefore even if he dies he can transplant his consciousness back into his body.
I know it there is something about Arya being so important to Faceless Men and Jon getting help from Mellisandre. The three of Starks Jon, Arya and Bran must be very important for gods.
