They definitely had Arya eyeing a female face - guessing she will be wearing that one soon?

It's Sansa's consent to the Wedding and thus the Wedding night that makes zero sense. That consent would be more believable if she believed it was just agreeing to a betrothal, and no wedding+consumation. After last year's fuss self aware writers could easily have replaced the wedding ceremony with a betrothal…

The problem is the show runners have been given the the blue print of what comes in the next to books, and according to one of the writers the writing team create a storyline breakdown of each episode and these are approved by Martin before the scripts are actually written.

We got a classic piece of LIttlefinger,setting up another 'piece' to do what he wants them to do, here using Cerise's hatred of Sansa to let him move the Vale's army to the North. I think the best bet is what he told Sansa is true, that he's siding with Stannis, and it becomes a neat nip and tuck that in WoW he does…

The question of course is why would Sansa agree to put herself in that situation in the first place with the obvious wedding night consequences. If she'd been promised that it was just a betrothal and the cavalry would arrive before the Wedding night actually happened, maybe, and that could have easily and…

His narrative function seems to have been to tell Dany some Targayen family back story. They had a couple of little chats this season, after that he was disposable. I'm guessing Martin plans to kill him at the start of WoW leading the attack on the besieging armies, but it seems the show is going to cut the siege…

I think GRRM likes variations of a theme, you might say Bk1 is a tale of 3 arranged marriages ending in 3 widowhoods, kind of repetitive. BUT we see how Cait and Ned's marriage worked, while Cersei and Robert's didn't, and Dany and Drogo's could have gone either way but ended up because he treated her better than…

As long as he takes them all from one hand you're fine to write

In that HBO model HBO the battle of Winterfell is the obvious episode 9 climax - which is of course a WoW spoiler. but I think it's their 'way' to leave the Boltons/Sansa/Stannis arc resolved at the end of the season, clearing the decks for WoW story arcs none of use know anything about. Not sure there's enough for a…

"kill the boy" or "killed by the boy"

I don't remember the speech from the book, but the "We've got to help them before they die" one they gave him was ridiculously unlikely to persuade a bunch of people of have spent their lives fighting the Wildlings, particularly as he already has a reputation as a 'wildling lover'. Desperately needed a "We're…

Especially as there are less, sorry fewer, other Kings/Queens around now and one is spineless and the other is feeding her enemies to her pets.

She sees the freed Slaves as her Children and feels responsible for them and thus the worse Meereen politics gets the harder it is for her to leave.

I wonder if we're going to get Myranda defecting from #teambolton to #teamstark and she and her friends playing the role of the spearwoman in the books? Perhaps part of her 'secret mission' from Littlefinger is to recruit allies within Winterfell to help Stannis take it?

I kind of like how book Nymeria reflects Arya, wild, disconnected, dangerous, TV hasn't even attempted that, though it wouldn't be easy. Perhaps Arya meeting up Nymeria her reconnection with her old self.

I was expecting the whole, keep the direwolf close warning and was surprised it didn't happen and it's an odd bit to cut, so perhaps she will be back.

I wonder if we're going to get the capture of Dragonstone (particularly with Loras' current situation…) by the Lannister-Tyells? In the books it's not particularly important and all happens off stage, but I wonder if its goal is for the Lannisters to hold the source of Dragonglass but not be helpful about providing…

I'm sure Littlefinger has a plan, but we're being deliberately not told about that until it plays out, and until that happens dumping Sansa in Winterfell makes no sense whatsoever.
As for OldTown, and several other plot points, I think Martin has set up a whole lot of minor characters who haven't done anything relevant…

I'm still waiting for "And the night is dark and full of turnips"

Divorce