Sansa vs. Arya, Ep. 7.6

Fair points. Although sisters they were so unlike it seemed that Sansa was all Tully where Arya was all Stark. The fact that Sansa ended up as the Queen in the North because she bagsied it was laughable but completely in line with her character as portrayed.

And yet of the two Sansa was the more realistic character by far. Arya, this tiny little girl/woman, we were supposed to believe became a super ninja assassin after what was it a year (?) of getting her arse kicked from one end of Braavos to the other by the Waif. And in the end she is the hero of the piece in a ridiculous scene where she comes unseen, somehow from above and out of nowhere to kill the Night King.

That was a very good scene.

It's hard to pick which one I liked more because I saw good things in both characters. But Arya's story is a bit more far-fetched. All that "girl has no name" training was kind of ridiculous and the most redundant part of the entire show. I liked it more when she was with The Hound and Tywin.

Sansa learned how to play the game really well. She was smart but not a "warrior" type like Arya. So, the fact that Sansa didn't kill the NK is not all that surprising. It would have made for a great twist if Sansa did end up killing him though.

At the end of the day, I see them as pretty much the opposite, Sansa's weaknesses are Arya strengths and vice versa. Great characters either way but I probably favor Sansa by just a hair.

Sansa was a bit of an arrogant 'unt, but she was wise in politics. She worked Littlefinger, which is a feat in itself.

Arya was totally unrealistic, but what a great tale of her transformation to a pint-sized badass. I loved her.

It's possible that Sansa was correct, that Arya wouldn't have survived being held prisoner, raped, and tortured, because she'd have found a way to kill Bolton early on and then died in a blaze of glory fighting his thugs.

But Sansa, being the delicate flower she was, had to run away and come back with a couple of armies, and make herself queen!