Having to take Superman-level powers into account must create weird choices in the writers' room. I get that her strength might have limits and so she can be held in by the bars made out of alien material, but she's as fast as the Flash. So when the villain is leaning on her cage, actually touching it, and revealing…

Well, if you're going to get all drama geek on it, then sure, but I was referring to Destructive Recovery's advice that seems to equate improvisation with thinking on one's feet: "As far as improvisation goes, you may not have to do much improvising. Do research to try to learn about common interview questions and lay…

I think Destructive Recovery's advice is pretty good. Do your research. Reduce "improv" to a series of rehearsed narratives relevant to the job. Do your homework about the position. Leave as little to chance as you can. Practice as you are able.

The first one is worth a read, but it will seem very dated now. It's very different from the film. The rest of the books aren't that great, and thankfully the movies deviate from them significantly. Of Ludlum's thrillers, The Matarese Circle was my favorite.

Ah, right. I remember that now. Ruthless medieval bastards all.

Is there any doubt that the "lowborn" Master needed a serious change of underwear after that?

Too true. It's totally fucked up on every level, but it's hard to see any way around it. You don't fire volley after volley into the the crowd and not expect your own people to be killed at the same rate as the enemy.

Yet they did, over and over again.

Ugh. That would be even worse.

Yep. He's always been one of the most dangerous people in the game. I wonder if it was even his idea to let Jon's forces get whittled down a bit more before intervening.

I think it kind of shows, sadly, that Ramsay was right, and he is indeed now a part of her. They basically did the same thing: they allowed a good chunk of their own army to be slaughtered for the sake of victory. That's cold as hell, and I'm sure something that would never have crossed Jon's mind as son cut from the…

Lovely.

He had crazy eyes at the end while fondling the toy stag, so I'm going to say yes.

And the sacrifice move with her brother's army. Ugh. That's some cold shit right there.

To me, his "mistake" lay in his unwillingness to sacrifice his brother for the cause, not necessarily in any strategy or command given. Someone else (Davos?) makes the same mistake because they aren't willing to sacrifice Jon as he's facing down Ramsay's cavalry. I think the difference in strategies highlights the…

Brilliant but almost unthinkable, or at least, it's the tactic of a total sociopath. You have to be an absolutely unholy asshole to kill so many of your own men. Not just send them out with a slight chance of victory, but to make their death at the hands of your own men part of your strategy. Makes you wonder what the…

Yep. I'm not sure how people keep missing this. Given Jon's humanity, I'm not sure it would even remotely cross his mind to sacrifice his entire cavalry as Ramsay did. It was an extremely brutal tactic but it paid off. But Ramsay was right: Sansa has changed, perhaps for the worse. She waited until all of Ramsay's…

"Wouldn't it be just awesome if every rape victim had the chance to see their rapist getting torn apart by hounds "

I don't mind, either. I think we're both on the same page in feeling that the outcome is basically a narrative necessity at this point. As you say, it's all in how you tell it, and this was so very good and epic, I've got no complaints!

Don't speak ill of the dead! Poor Wun Wun. R.I.P.