parthenogenesis?

without female dragons?

That scene was so obvious to begin with, I was just waiting for it to be over.

he'll be riding Nymeria!

Part of me suspects that the stabbed girl is the girl from the troupe, and that Arya put an Arya mask on her (although I guess that isn't possible unless Arya has died).

And it didn't feel personal that Jaqen H'ghar instructed her to not make Arya suffer too much?

If it's a vendetta to protect the honor of the many faced god, why not?

"I think it's too little too late for anyone to care about the CoTF."

Not everything has to be integral to the plot. You're allowed to have some fat (as an aside, I think the show generally does a very good job of trimming many fat parts in the book). By giving us the backstory of the Children, their death becomes more meaningful, and the audience is more invested. The scene about the…

Children of the forrest created the WWs and they were ultimately undone by them. This is an important theme in this series, monsters turning against their creators.

It's all GRRM's fault. Why can't Wylis be Willis?

There was a moment I think when present Hodor was being controlled. I think this did not last. Bran heard Meera's cries to hold the door and instructed Wylis to do so.

I think he was himself. His eyes were not doing the being warged thing.

She was seemingly the last of her species. Her species also created the whitewalkers to stop the humans. She ended up being killed by the whitewalkers to save humans. That moment certainly deserved some gravitas.

Bran warged into the wrong Hodor. Present Hodor was acting out of his own free will. Of course he would not be Hodor if Bran did not screw up his wiring in the past.

Drogon can burn the hut.

putting the fanfic in fanatic…

Yeah, if that was his plan then it is pretty far fetched. I'd like to imagine that Littlefinger is playing everyone. Also, he made a deal with Roose. Maybe now he regrets it because Ramsay is a loose cannon.

they were setting it up gradually from the first episode.

The writers knew what they were doing. Since last week, people have been dreaming of some great Umber conspiracy (that for some reason involves delivering a potential King of the North right into the hands of a madman). For a second there, I am sure those people entertained the possibility of Osha getting the upper…