I was also surprised we didn’t see Ghost.

Yeah, I agree. He’s going to still be with her the way he will always be with Theon—and it’s not because of a pregnancy. In Westeros, a pregnancy can be fixed any number of ways. If you’re pro-life, she gives the baby away. The country has been at war for like five years, plenty of folks need or want a kid. She never…

Yes, she wrote a letter, probably to Littlefinger. But we never saw a sign that she’d gotten a response back. Remember, the last time she’d talked to LF, she’d almost set Brienne to kill him—not a good indication the man would want to help her. We never saw her get any communication back from that message. It’s not…

And also Sansa’s estimate of 5000 was from when the Boltons (when Roose was still alive) went after . . . Moat Caelin? a season or so back. The estimate probably didn’t include the Umber, Karstark, and other forces that had joined up after Ramsey became Warden of the North.

They couldn’t wait—for the same reason Stannis got bogged down there—it is WINTER in the North, and they couldn’t count on the weather to hold out. One snow storm (that could potentially produce up to 10 feet of snow) would have have destroyed their chance at a battle at all, and a siege was not going to work for…