"Where are you getting that from?"

The whole contraption would weight a ton, how would the chain not knock people off just as efficiently?

He's off fighting unicorns with Shaggydog. I'm sure instead of of writing The Winds of Winter GRRM is hard at work creating a children's cartoon about a little boy and his talking wolf.

They weren't prepared because of incompetent leadership as a result of their Lord Commander and all competent rangers getting killed. The guys in charge didn't believe giants were real things.

I agree on almost all of this, but still think they will hold the Lord Commander stuff till next season, because as you said there isn't much happening at the Wall for a while.

There is not any more Sansa/Littlefinger stuff, unless they are going to go off book and have some sort of interaction with the Hound/Arya who are right outside the Eyrie.

Jon is elected Lord Commander in I believe his last chapter in SoS. That is at least a few chapters after Stannis is at the Wall. Stannis is actually mad it's taking them so long to elect a leader, because until they have one he doesn't really have anyone officially to talk to.

"But I'm a tiny little girl who would probably lose a fight with my cat,
(if he really put his mind to it), and I think I could put up a better
defense than these pitiful Sers…"

"At castle black why not have more than two or three archers on the
walls, ( in the book I'm not even sure there were walls) or more people
throwing rocks? Why would they not have a catapult at the Castle—they
have them up top. Why not have a row of archers right behind the gate,
with a shield wall in front."

"Wouldn't something that dropped straight down on climbers make more sense, instead of that big swinging thing?"

"Why climb the wall directly under their enemies? Why not a whole ton of
climbers all along the wall, after all once they reach the top they will
be in a much better position to disrupt the siege."

The episode is 66 minutes. I think they will fit in everything you mentioned with the exception of Jon being elected Lord Commander, and I don't think they will have any Littlefinger/Sansa stuff. I also think they will have something with Bran, most likely him meeting the three eyed crow.

I posted this on another forum but think it applies here as well.

No, I'm not slow. I had the decency to answer your question, please answer mine. Do you think that scene depicted rape?

So you didn't think that scene depicted rape then?