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On EFAP 36, MauLer, Rags, Fringy, Al, and RobotHead took a look at Insider as part of their look at videos defending the final season of *Game of Thrones*. Insider's video "**16 Clues Foreshadowing Arya’s Big Moment In ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 8 Episode 3**" had been sent to MauLer to prove he was an idiot for not liking the Night King's death. The video, hosted by a woman who sounded like a female version of Cynical CJ, laid out sixteen things it claimed were foreshadowing for Arya killing the Night King.

1. Insider describes Arya hitting a target with an arrow when she was supposed to be sewing while Bran is practicing archery as a "sneak attack," just like the sneak attack she pulls on the Night King.
2. Arya is given a dagger and is told to stick people with the pointy end, which foreshadows her stabbing the Night King specifically, as that is indeed how knives work.
3. Arya is told, ”What do we say to god of death? Not today,” which is then repeated in the battle. She didn’t catch the fake sword that was thrown to her originally, but then catches her own dagger that she dropped to herself.
4. Arya's dagger travels around the country to multiple owners and then ends up back in her hands. That's it, that's the whole point. (she accidentally says he and not she )
5. A picture of the dagger was in one of the books Sam reads to find out how to kill the Night King. This is probably the strongest connection they make, but it's only the actual metal that's important, and it being the specific dagger is just a coincidence.
6. Arya is told early on that she will all sorts of eyes - brown eyes, blue eyes, green eyes, which is intended to mean that she will kill a wide variety of people. The writers then changed this to mean that the brown eyes stood for the Freys, the blue eyes stood for the Night King, and the green eyes stood for some other third thing. They had to change the line when it was said again to be brown eyes, green eyes, *blue eyes* to make the blue part seem more significant, but Insider didn't show this change.
7. When teaching Arya how to fight, The Hound teaches her to stab people in the heart (he doesn't), and tells her to go for the weak points in someone's armor (she is actually told that armor is used to deflect blades, but she stabs Night King right through his armor)
8. The Night King was created under a specific tree and is killed under a similar looking tree, which MauLer gives credit as a more interesting parallel at least.
9. Arya snuck up on Jon Snow in the same location as she sneaks up on the Night King. Jon asked her "how did you sneak up on me?" to which the answer was that he wasn't surrounded by an entire army of his own followers.
10. Bran gives her her dagger and has knowing look in his face, meaning he knows she'll kill the Night King apparently. Insider split up the dagger's journey into two halves to make two points out of it.
11. The dagger is very visible on her belt. This means she will kill the Night King.
12. Arya uses same knife-drop move on Brienne, which means she will do the same to the Night King. This isn't foreshadowing, just her reusing a skill that she learned.
13. People die protecting her throughout the show's run, almost as if her life is important, which means she has to kill the Night King.
14. The Hound says “we are fighting death, you can't beat death” and Beric points to her and says, “tell her that.”
15. Arya again uses same moves as in the past, parrying a random soldier's staff with a staff, which means she will then kill the Night King.
16. Up until now, we never found out why Arya (who wanted to be a knight and then became an assassin) went on training to kill people, other than of course killing people on her list of people to kill as an assassin, but now we finally know it was all to kill the Night King.

Rags compared this list to someone trying to fill up a word count on an essay, and MauLer predicted that Game of Thrones will ruin "foreshadowing" as a term the same way The Last Jedi did to "subverting expectations," with people describing any minor connection that could be made between an earlier scene and a later scene as foreshadowing and claiming it justifies the payoff that wasn't set up. These weak connections were also being held up as foreshadowing over actual foreshadowing that was building up Jon Snow being the one who kills the Night King. A comment on the video pointed out that Insider missded the seventeenth point, that Arya killing the Night King was foreshadowed by Arya being in the show.