RESPONSE TO SPOILERS SO INDIRECTLY SPOILERISH: Yeah totally agree.  If anything, her story shows that you do more harm than good when you try to change an entrenched system in a foreign land, but lack the resources or dedication to see the change through.

Not sure what your position is as far as being experienced with the books so I'll try to mark spoilers here.  Up to this point in the story, people are generally put off by the Boltons, including Roose.  Not much is known about Ramsay until the events at Winterfell when it's taken from Theon.  But back to Roose, other…

Yeah I agree there.  I thought of it as an invented exchange for that scene.  Dany is being built up as a queen and conqueror, it was a nice line to both allow Tywin to dismiss Joffrey's concern as juvenile, while also demonstrating that the powers in Westeros are either unaware of or underestimating Dany.

As has been said over and over again on these comments, it just doesn't look like the Purple Wedding shows up this season.  I agree with those folks and their reasons.

The way I see it is that even though Sansa is always hanging out with Dontos and thinking about it, the actual events on the day of the Purple Wedding feel surprising and breathless to Sansa.  It goes without saying you can't TV-adapt all her inner romanticizing of Dontos, but it's also hard to introduce all of these…

Along the lines of what you're saying, I noticed something interesting while watching some old episodes last week.  When they prepare for that party in Qarth in the "hot blue dress."  Doreah recommends she wears that dress since it's a gift from Xaro (who she was later discovered to be sleeping with, even though it's…