Sansa writing to Ramsay would be shocking and might make better television but I'm not sure it would be particularly believable. I strongly suspect she was writing to Littlefinger, and taking the predictable course. Maybe I'm as naive as her, but it seems that Littlefinger is their best hope for the time being. Even…

Yes, but not sure Jaqen will be at all responsible for that. I think Arya will find a way to kill The Waif in spite of her injuries.

They're talking about him being dead because it's important to the plot. Sometimes an ambiguous death is maybe not a death, but there doesn't seem to be any reason for Brienne to have spared him, nor any reason to lie about it afterwards, nor any reason for the Boltons who said they'd found him dead to make that up,…

Well she definitely wasn't trying to fake her death in that episode. She was attacked, did all she could to escape, and now she's just hoping not to die. I guess faking her death might be a potential path for her, but that's assuming she manages not to actually die.

Yeah - exactly - it's the other way round. The story is well plotted enough that there has been the groundwork laid for all of the "big twists". Obviously if you scatter the crumbs, and your show gets phenomenally popular, people will start to solve the riddles. Even the more complicated ones.

POTENTIAL SPOILER from trailer for next week:

I think the ending of Arya's plot this episode more or less seals it for me that Jaqen isn't done with her yet. I don't see how she could survive next week if this isn't some kind of test. I also don't really see why they'd introduce a school for training shapeshifting assassins to then NOT give Arya that power…

Lannisters are currently not best placed to be ordering assassinations of foreign leaders, but I would imagine a season down the line the Dorne plot will flare back up again, and Myrcella will be a factor.

Except here - even though a lot of the audience seem to be expecting it, it would feel pretty unearned. He was left as dead, and with zero desire to return to Kings Landing. It'd feel cheap. Any show that relies on resurrections too much for shock value has some serious problems.

The film definitely had some problems. Mark Ruffalo's natural charm carried me through the first 20 minutes, then there's a gently surreal set piece that was honestly pretty uplifting. After that it got bland and repetitive. But I never really pinned any of that blame on Knightley. It's just that after the imaginary…

Copyright laws do have a provision for TV/film critics to use clips when they're assessing them. And I don't know about America but in the UK Game of Thrones is legally available via Sky Go - so there are methods to get it on a laptop legally.

But why does it feel like it's entirely based on being politically correct? The original cast was entirely male. Yes - at some stage in the reboot planning, somebody clearly looked at it and thought, what if we gender swap every role, but I highly doubt they did it for political correctness.

Mary Jane in the original Spiderman trilogy didn't take that role. There's no reason a male love interest in a film needs to follow the path that a female love interest took in the comic. Also - if he's outright gay, then yes it'd be acceptable to kill his male love interest for drama if you were going to use another…

Because you're a massive Bucky/Steve shipper? Or the other way?

Well every origin story Marvel have told so far has had a very, very obvious female love interest appear nearly as soon as the male main character does.

Exactly

I know you're kidding, but I honestly don't want to see any of the established characters hooking up. There's already too much character development against it, particularly on any of the characters who have had their own movies. I guess Iron Man seems modern & open-minded enough, but he's also been in a monogamous…

I realise it's kind of daft of me to post my hopes for a franchise on an article criticising the desire for wish-fulfilment from fans.

Incidentally, the corollary of #GiveElsaAGirlfriend is the sudden appearance of #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend…

People who went postal over the very idea of the new Ghostbusters even before the trailer aired probably have some issues. Yes - it felt a little gimmicky, but I'm not sure it should have done. How many all male casts are there in Sci-Fi which get no real acknowledgement?