(SPOILERS!) Game of Thrones : LAST AIRED EPISODE Discussion

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Originally Posted by chip75

I think The Hound taught Brienne a lesson, that fighting like a Knight doesn't always work on people fighting for their lives, so she learnt to fight dirty fast.

Reading the books, I always thought Arya couldn't kill The Hound as she cared for him after they'd been through so much together. Even though putting him out of his misery was the right thing to do, she just couldn't bear to do it. In the show she was pretty much emotionless walking off.

I get what you're saying, but in another way her caution not to display emotion is in part based on how The Hound has taught her to act. By stealing his money and leaving, you could see it as her display to him of showing what she's learnt from him, whereas killing him would have been a weakness that he wouldn't have respected (even though he begged for her to do it). She didn't need to cross him off her list because, after all they'd been through, he wasn't on it anymore. That's how I felt about it, anyway.