Whoops. My bad. You're absolutely right I meant Jeyne Westerling. Jeyne Poole is different… and not in for a very good time.

The popular fan theory is that Talisa, who in the books is actually named Jeyne Poole and has a completely different back-story, is actually a spy for the Lannisters. The point being that Tywin sent her to woo him and is using her to find out what he's planning. Hence the letters she is writing in Old Valyrian that he…

They do have an elevator contraption in Castle black. They even built ramparts at the top, but the wall is almost entirely ice. Also, the wildlings have arrived at a very different and deserted section of the wall and are now marching around the Castle Black where Jon originally was stationed.

The wall isn't a glacier cliff. It's an actual wall built thousands of years ago by Bran The Builder. The wall is made of ice and stands over 700 ft tall and 300 miles in length. http://awoiaf.westeros.org/…

I didn't really see anything that made me think the RW was next week. The title of episode 9 "The Rains of Castamere" pretty much guarantees that episode 9 will be the RW. Also, the series tends to put the big events of the series in episode 9 so they can wrap everything else up in ep. 10.

Gotta agree with you. That's how I see stuff playing out.

The leeches will be in the next episode. You can see them being used in the trailer. And placing their use closer to the "shitstorm" will make more sense anyway. Though, I do have to wonder if we'll get to see Balon Greyjoy's death or we will just hear about it.