Ah, you’re right, as I remember Benjen’s horse coming back sans rider.

Honestly, this was such a stupid plan to begin with that we can’t be surprised it was stupidly executed. 

On the show, the Small Council gets a raven scroll from Commander Mormont warning them of the wight that attacked him at Castle Black. Pycelle and Cersei dismissively talk of grumpkins and snarks, but Tyrion believes the account based on Mormont’s character.

Or maybe only those who are killed by wight attack are automatically raised? I don’t even know what the rules are anymore. 

Yes, this is true. But as was pointed out in another thread, this can happen from a distance, such as it did with the wight that reanimated inside Castle Black during season 1.

Like the blue flame on a Bunson burner!

Night King 2020

But unlike this scouting party, Mance could’ve accomplished the task simply by caging corpses and refraining from burning the dead.

So help me Great Stallion if this moment isn’t one of the sexiest things I’ve ever seen.

There’s still no guarantee that he would be turned. In which case, they would’ve waited two days with no shelter in freezing temperatures for nothing and would’ve likely still been spotted by the wight army during that time.

-This isn’t Walking Dead rules where the dead just turn. Wights have to be turned by White Walkers. 

I’m still not buying it. Probably because I’m the type of person who’s attracted to a person immediately or not at all. All the prowess in the world means nothing without attraction. And Podrick’s loyalty to Tyrion would likely preclude him from doing anything with Sansa, even if he’s aware the marriage was in name…

People keep saying this, but she’s known Podrick for four or five seasons already. He was her ex husband’s squire in Kings Landing and has spent the last couple seasons at Winterfell. If there were any chemistry there, it would’ve been explored by now.

Er, I said arrested development, not Arrested Development. No one is talking about the TV show and/or 90s hip hop group here. 

Henry VII and Elizabeth of York.

Yeah, but I’m not talking about Melissa Joan Hart so much as I’m referring to Clarissa Darling’s styling. But if you do want to talk personas, TsovLoj makes an apt comparison above.

I can’t help but agree. There’s an arrested development here that I find unsettling. You can be a bright and colorful Nickelodeon-esque teenager and appeal to elementary school fanbase without seeming like you’re trying to be one of them (see: Clarissa Darling.)

Knowing Murphy’s knack for taking a plot off the rails, he’ll probably find a way to work that in too.

So, Heathers.