Loras may die… I suspect Margerie has a plan.

I think you are correct… Margery gave no indication that she wanted to confess… I think Cersie is playing them.

mmmmmkay… now we're getting somewhere.

I think Tyrion is looking at the immediate need to cut funding to the sons. If that stops then the threat inside the city is gone and Dany can "re-negotiate" terms of the other cities when she returns.

Ok…

They also teased us with Osha being a lot like his kennel master's daughter… They made a point of Ramsay expressing what he saw in her and then made a point of showing that Osha was similar. If she was playing a long game she may have gotten somewhere… But this was done for expediency… I believe it will prove to be…

Brothers and sisters that are not the same as they were when last they met… Book of the "strangers".

Benjin and Gendry are plotting to overthrow Dorne in spectacular coup… Then business will pick up in Dorne

Well, I'd argue that Dany's "smugness" as you put it is what separates her from the rest of the women in the temple. See, when the boss lady was giving the speech about how they all were married to great Kahl's and they all thought said Kahl would conquer the world… she was not correct. Danny was the one intent on…

Ahhhh… But she lied under oath and before the gods. What part of the Sparrow's ways seems "reasonable"/ Big.. big.. Jerk.

So now The Knights of the vale are heading for winterfell… as are the wildlings and probably some Northern houses. We will also see the riverlands at some point joining Sansa. So Bolton stew is unavoidable here… but then what? I can't wait to see Sansa and Baelish meet up again

Benjin being missing North of the wall HAS to be relevant right? Gendry… I'm not sure if we'll see him again… I think his story line was more about Davos' character progression. Freeing him meant the eventual sacrifice of Shireen.

The Hound is coming back 100%

Martell/Tyrell?

Gotcha… It is interesting how that succession has gone. I would note that all 4 Characters you mention were far more important and substantial (even Jon nwho we didn't meet) than Kevan… Maybe he does live. ;-P

It seems silly to say "The head was too small" as a viewer… One would imagine the characters in the show have as good an idea of a direwolf's dimensions as we do.

so from a story telling perspective we haven't moved at all. Stannis is, was and will remain the rightful heir 6 season's in? Nah… Stannis wasn't taking the Black he'd rather die IMO… and Brienne wasn't letting him. Tommen's death will be significant because he is the last one left in the succession.

It used to be important… and Tywin was hand of the king when he got shot on the toilet with a crossbow, init? He is fairly useless and openly defiant… hand to a king with no power with whom I suspect he barely speaks…

he is from an area called the fingers… and was small as a child… the "little one" from "the fingers" became known as Littlefinger I believe.

I think Bolton goes earlier than that… No way this season (moving this fast) climaxes on this clown. He does have to actively ensnare himself in something dastardly between now and go time.. I'd say ep 6 he bites it