I don't see much of a difference between this episode and many other recent ones. There were a couple of chuckles but nothing really funny, and the events were really just randomness masquerading as obscure profundity; no genuinely clever, moving or imaginative story like the show used to deliver every week. I've…

Murder is the only possible way I see this going. Sansa isn't an experienced manipulator, and the idea that she could "change" an insane sadist like Ramsay seems impossible to me; and he didn't change for Arya either. But even murder I'm very sceptical about, because in the books, which is where the show is heading…

Saudi Arabia is not in US territory so that's a very inapt analogy. The Lannisters rule over the Seven Kingdoms, and the Warden of the North has been their ally so far, and is doomed without their support. And Sansa was implicated at Tyrion's trial, which seems to have been popularly accepted.

Littlefinger arranged the murder of Jon Arryn at the very start of the series.

But you can say that she will assert authority..?

That's just wrong yo, she spent most of last season and plenty of this one trying to get revenge on Tyrion for the Purple Wedding (dwarf heads), and we know she considers Sansa just as complicit.

Ramsay's bedchamber is not a place that Sansa can "assert autonomy". Her situation is now even worse than King's Landing.

No.

Surprised not to see any mention of the music as Arya contemplated abandoning Needle and Needle seemed to "sing" in return. The melody was actually an intertwining of the show's "Stark" and "Castamere" themes. I thought it was a very clever way of evoking the tragedy of the Starks and Arya's lust for revenge upon the…

No antagonistic army. Boltons are (or should be) allied with the Lannisters.

Cersei. Or at least she thinks she does. There's no way Cersei would let it go if she knew where Sansa was. And you're underestimating her power. She is still nominal ruler and the one calling the shots at the Small Council. Kevan is her ally. He isn't fled, he explicitly wants to help rule — this is his and his…

Are the Lannisters wiped out..? Their armies aren't wiped out. Kevan is still managing things competently from Casterly Rock. The remaining Lannister with any authoritative control, Cersei, is the one person who would hunt down Sansa at any cost. Sending a Lannister force to take her from her presumed ally Roose is…

Hard to imagine Sansa having any kind of impact on the battle of Winterfell, especially as her book counterpart (fake Arya) doesn't, she just runs away with Theon.

I think it was Theon saying he was involved in a horrible scene involving a main character. So yeah, hard to see who else it could be. Sansa being placed in Winterfell is so illogical and contrived, I honestly think they made a conscious decision to film an offensive scene to whip up a storm of controversy, in case…

The Boltons don't have a claim on Winterfell, they've just rolled up there because it's abandoned and they have military control of the North… remember Tywin married off Tyrion to Sansa so that the Lannisters would inherit it. Sansa's still the official heir, she doesn't need to marry the Boltons. Plus technical…

In the books Val says that the disease can return in the North, which makes me suggests that's the way things will go. In the show it's not really established that she's cured for good, so it could simply start to spread again and it'd be consistent with what viewers know.

Myeah you said it would make the show version misogynistic though.

If he knows about Ramsay, he knows that he has a good chance of never seeing Sansa alive again, which makes no sense for Littlefinger and contradicts what we know about him.

Cersei's thoroughly evil, and the source of her evil is her incredible narcissism. Her punishment was therefore fantastically apt and effective. I loved it.

Hah, oh dear. Okay yeah, Cersei's downfall was the only good part then.