Really?! I'm not saying we should have all expected it or something, but there were decently strong hints in retrospect she wasn't what we all wanted her to be,

Really?! I'm not saying we should have all expected it or something, but there were decently strong hints in retrospect she wasn't what we all wanted her to be, whereas Jon was what we wanted but lacked the ambition or whatever -- which almost perfectly mirrors Ned and everyone else in the story. The only thing I can't believe is that the prophecies were pointing toward Arya as Azor Ahai, or the (apparently now) more likely theory that the "darkness" mentioned in the prophecy didn't have anything to do with the army of the undead (http://time.com/5589654/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-azor-ahai-prophecy/ http://time.com/5589654/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-azor-ahai-p...)