They came out clean as a whistle, tanned and rested

He wasn't that brilliant. Just crazy and clever. Without a more noble Stark to play into his hands he would've been undone sooner, and he was beginning to lose his grip on the heavy mantle of the North before this. Sooner or later someone would've taken it from him.

I've been ranking hers over Arya's since Season 4 tbh

I hope it goes better for him than Alan Taylor, who depending on who you ask was either screwed over on Thor 2 or seriously personally bungled both that and Terminator: Genisys - or maybe a little from both choices.

Time for Jon and Sansa to come down to the kitchen and share a late-night cheesecake. If you get this one you're my friend for life

That was the moment that really got me, when Wun Wun busted down the doors and Jon and co. ran inside. It's been a long, long time and that's when you knew everything had changed.

I'm not convinced both Davos and Melisandre won't go out together next week.

Incidentally, the Northern houses need to take some lumps for falling in line with the Boltons so utterly. Specifically, Jon and Sansa should probably execute most of the leaders of House Umber for what they did to Rickon.

Not the last.

That's what they had left with most of their army decimated, no time to prep for a siege and a very hasty retreat back to the castle. Had it gone the usual way Wun Wun and co. would never have gotten that close.

Ramsay was afraid of a stand-up fight with Jon, he made that clear at their meeting. If he couldn't goad him out alone he would've gone back behind the walls of Winterfell and not chanced it.

Not for long. If they knew the Vale was coming and Jon's people reacted accordingly Ramsay would be back behind the walls of Winterfell and it would become the siege of Riverrun or worse, the old story of Stannis' holding Storm's End amidst death, illness and starvation for months.

He's good with some tactics and battles, stand-up fights against reasonably rational people. He didn't know Ramsay, and he was emotionally unprepared for watching his little brother get killed in front of him, as most of us would be. That being said, yes, Sansa won the day.

What were her alternatives? Sansa knows what Littlefinger is just as we do, or she at the very least has a close idea. That does not change the situation. Littlefinger was already planning to ride to the North to take part in the fight. He has designs of his own and his designs currently dovetail with what the Starks…

I figured he had to die, and I like the way the show sort of subverted it by having Sansa - the pragmatic voice of reason, who was clearly having trouble saying it out loud - openly admit there was no chance he'd live. Good for Art Parkinson though, he's in a ton of movies lately.

I'm sure I'm the 999th person here to say this, but I have to do it: Anyone coming down on Sansa needs to think it through. If Jon knew the Vale was coming he would've held back or waited for them. The moment he does Ramsay goes behind the walls of Winterfell and you end up in a Riverrun situation for months where Jon…

One grace note here - in addition to the rest of his remarkably prolific and sparkling career in a host of other great films and performances - is the fact that no matter what people think of the NuTrek flicks overall he was generally well-liked for stealing the show as Chekov. Trekkers never, ever forget. They'll…

I am watching GR tonight. I've put it off long enough but this will be difficult.

He's a kid in fucking Along Came a Spider which has been on Showtime all month.

2016 is Annabel Chong at this point