I have a love-hate relationship with the scene where Arya spars with Brienne. My wife enjoyed it a ton – there was fierce exultation in the sheer amount of Gurl Power badassery on display. My own reactions were way more conflicted. In some order:

I mean, I guess if we're keeping him around then he has to pull some shit. I guess this season.
And *THEN* they'll kill him.

Maybe "oddly" for normal people, but I disagree with you applying that word to Jamie. It's not "odd" for him to be brave.

A one-handed knight should be in even worse trouble than most, falling into water. That stuff is difficult enough to remove as it is.

what do we think about Arya killing Littlefinger with his dagger?

Dany can't have babies. She lost the ability after casting that spell to make zombie Drogo.

Meh, his redemption is way too pat in the books.

Same. I completely missed the "rape" aspect of that scene until the internet comments started rolling in after the episode, because I was looking at it thru the book lens. In the book, it's not presented as a rape, so I assumed I was watching the same scene. Didn't catch the lack of consent until it was pointed out…

Wasn't it revenge for something the slavemasters had done? Crucifying 300 slave children with one arm outstretched to point the way to the next city?

I wouldn't call Jaime's move "oddly" brave. He's always been insanely confident in his warrior/athletic ability. (Less so since losing his hand.) Of course in that moment he would choose action.

Oh, I like that MUCH more than a simple regurgitation of the events in an episode. I always find that kind of review redundant and useless. I already WATCHED the episode.

There's only whiplash if you want it bud. The episode started with a scene to explain the timing. The gold was expedited to Kings Landing while the main force had to stay behind and gather food from neighboring farms.

Jon's back-from-the-dead special rejuvenation seed will fix it.

Re: did Arya think for a brief second that her mother was alive here? Or was she just expressing her inability to perceive of Sansa as Lady of Winterfell?

Damn.

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She did not marry against her will. Littlefinger convinced Sansa to ally with the Boltons through marriage.

Yeah, that's sort of been Martin's signature trick in this series. I was amazed when he did it with Jamie.

Jon should be in shirtsleeves and a T-shirt, in Dragonstone. The Dothraki should be in furs.

Not "everyone"! Just 3 characters!