I do think that Littlefinger and Sansa could have been assimilated into Winter fell, though. A lot of this season feels so much smaller, with so fewer people, and I don't mean named characters. You don't ha e to whole hog with the Northern lords, but something more than am Old Lady and Brienne off in the distance,…

Actually, I thought the intent was that he wasn't at all.

Exactly how? I mean, it is something intended to shock people as it's dehumanizing to a certain part of the viewership. If it makes narrative sense, shouldn't be a-ok?

As I said, if I really wanted to be nitpicky, but I don't.

Problem with having the books to reference.

The Faceless Men are assassins for hire, but the price depends on what the people hiring them can pay. They don't always pay with cash.

A captain died, and he refused to give the money to the dead captain's family - it would have been more profitable if a Captain died on the voyage, and doing so means a payout to his family. The Thin Man apparently kept the payout in this instance, and the wife and child of the dead captain turned to the House of…

The two boys mattered when it was Jeyne Poole. Sansa, not so much.

The shortcuts, the cutting corners with things like this - really diminish the show. However awesome Hardhome was.

Oh, but didn't we get her relishing and enjoying what happened to Theon?

But they're Bolton men. They've been given nothing except to be Bolton men.

And I'm told the Dreammilk/Sweetmilk can be fatal in large doses, or if not monitored carefully.

I disagree that Harry the Heir is convoluted. Robin is weak and sickly with seizures. Littlefinger is dosing him up on some shit that will definitely hasten that. Harry the Heir is next in line, the right age and type for Sansa.

Yet we've seen Theon's junk cut off, we've seen him flayed. We've seen Ramsay flay people on two separate occasions - three, technically. We've seen him hunt down a girl for luls.

But she realizes, when Cersei advises her about being feared, that she would rather be loved. That that is the sort of Queen, the sort of person she wants to be, and will continue to be, even if she learns the Game.

TLDR: NO.

I was going to say of course Cersei's plot was illogically construct. Her plotting sucked.

Nope. Example? Dorne. Disproves everything in the article. How the clumsy handling of THAT is in any way superior to the book, blows my mind.

Given that the episode titled "The Gift" never actually made mention of "The Gift" of the Faceless Men, or the "The Gift" of land that Jon was negotiating with the Wildlings about, I just can't let my self hope.

Oh, he'll nod and everything. SO affecting.