For anyone who needs a refresher course course on all thingsGame of Thronesbefore the upcomingfinal chapterkicks off , all you require to do is rewatch time of year 1 , harmonize to Maisie Williams . In an interview withEntertainment Weekly , the Arya Stark actress expose that after she have sex the end to season 8 , she had to go back and rewatch the first time of year .

" After read the book I fail back and catch time of year 1 again , because so much of it refers back to that season , " Williams shared . " There are so many scene that will look similar . And also I watched just to remind myself of the arc I ’ve take in already . I wanted Arya to go full circle and try for some kind of normality like when she was young . "

Of all the Starks , Arya has had the most striking transformation over the retiring seven seasons , both physically and emotionally . But now the footling assassin is back with her family in Westeros , a reunification fans spent several old age waiting to witness .

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" There are so many emotion and retention that come inundate back when you ’re with your family and the thing that you fight for become very different , yet she ’s also stay on this track to hear and wipe out Cersei and remember her listing and obtain tight to that , " Williams uphold . " So there ’s this split with Arya between attempt to be who she wants to be — getting back to the naïveté and naturalness with her crime syndicate — and bare line . "

We can only think the multitude of analogue to that first time of year , which premiered back in 2011 , specially since the Starks have rectify their home at Winterfell . Game of Thronesreturns on April 14th , which gives you more than enough fourth dimension to listen Williams ’s advice binge - watch the first season as a refresher course .

[ h / tEntertainment Weekly ]