Killing the whole ruling class would have meant killing the innocent and guilty, that's probably what her father would have done. Again she is trying to be tough and unforgiving yet just and fair, and it's not working, but it's also pretty much pure Stannis. Maybe she needs to punish Jorah by chopping his hand off…

None of those people you listed needed her forgiveness. She's good at winning neutrals she's unable to forgive which makes it difficult to turn enemies into friends (part of her governing problem in Mereen). This is also pointed out (in the books atleast) as Stannis' greatest flaw (From memory the context was Robert…

It's also pointed out (books?) that Stannis' greatest failure is the inability to forgive so he can never win over his enemies/rivals. Dany's utter inability to forgive Jorah while everyone can see he has a puppy like devotion to her shows the same flaw. The Dany we've seen this series is too busy dishing out…

Maybe Cersei can loan her some

My understanding is while filming (2nd half the of the year) the producers and other key people talk through the plan for next season. Then at the end of filming they sit down and map out each episode in detail then those plans are approved by Martin then the individual writers work through their own episodes in the…

The problem is Lady Stoneheart really hasn't done very much at all, there is pretty much no storyline to give her. A lot has to hang on what Martin uses her for in WoW.

I suspect we will only get a very short Dany in the wilderness scene in Ep 10.

Brienne kills Stannis? We've been reminded this season that she has vowed to kill him (the whole Stannis ghost Renly thing) and they're getting close.

The show doesn't mind bringing back characters we haven't seen for years - I think it's just trying not to have 'too much' going at once.

The odd seasons do produce an ambiguity of how much time has passed. It does 'feel' like we've only covered about a year or so but it's never really made clear. I note that Sam said in this episode said he had known Jon for "years" so that in the show atleast something comparable to the five years the actors have…

My Guess is WoW LF turns up after Stannis captures Winterfell offering Sansa (there's no sense from the sample chapters that he gets moving particularly early in WoW which would be needed for him to be there for the battle), TV LF seems to have an extraordinary ability to move vast distances in a short amount of…

Ooops ;-)

If Manderly wasn't at the Wedding then I doubt he will show up. While Books 4&5 had plenty of fat to trim, chopping them down to 1 season left a lot of good stuff out.

It may but Olleana is a master player of the Game, and I think that's what she's been brought back to do (plus being absolutely brilliantly played by Diana Rigg so you've just got find an excuse to bring her back, book or no book!). Cersei has let herself get so close to the cliff that, yeap, it would only take the…

Such as a having a bunch of Black guys enslave two privileged White guys?

In the books Cersei's downfall was very much her own stupidity, 'people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones'. I have a strong suspicion they are setting up the 'Queen of Thorns' to bring up the accusations against Cersei. Diana Rigg is brilliant and it will be a pleasure to watch her Olleana plot and take down…

BUT we're approaching the end of the book material so we don't know how much longer he will be alive and well.

Strikes me as odd that the Boltons of all people would skip the bedding ceremony, I think we're supposed to have forgotten about that.

There's talk of a 'controversial Sansa scene' in WoW, at the back of my head I'm wondering if this was a variant on that scene being brought forward.

I feel the Drogo wedding-rape was designed to set up her 'slave liberator' storyline and that works better in the TV version than in the happier 'moon and stars' marriage of the book. And yeah the Sept one, was a film making stuff up, they took the consensual scene of the book and tried to add in a sense of the…