I was really impressed with the amount of dramatic weight given to the villains from the get-go, even the minion Ebony Maw (who has a lot of presence, the point where it was almost a shame he was killed), which is frequently an issue in MCU films.  Loki’s death has such finality that I was actually thinking they might…

Thor does mourn throughout the film. And it’s treated with far more gravity than anything in Ragnarok.

Endgame is probably heading for a reset button, though I don’t know if that will include resetting the character’s appearance. Though considering Ragnarok pretty much ignores the previous Thor films, I suppose it would be fitting if it got the same treatment.

I’ve seen those theories, and I don’t find them especially plausible.  Granted, there’s lots of implausible occurrences on this show, but if the good guys get completely routed, it shouldn’t be possible to escape the Army of the Dead even with tunnels (especially since we’ve been told the Night King can always find…

I mean, explicitly it is, GRRM’s original pitch letter states she makes it through to the end of the books.  Many things have changed from that outline (such as the original Jon/Arya/Tyrion love triangle, heh), but at its core, GRRM was telling a story about the evolutions of a small group of characters.  We aren’t at…

She’s one of GRRM’s original five main characters.  She’s not going to die before the end.

Arya is too important to die before the final episode, if she dies at all.

I mean, yeah? Since they ran out of book material the show hews very much to predictable setup-and-payoff format.

It’s been fairly strongly implied that the Night King is a show-only thing.  For starters, he has nothing to do with the book Night’s King, who isn’t the original White Walker, he was a mortal human seduced by the Others and ultimately defeated by an alliance of the King-Beyond-The-Wall and the King of Winter.

Among the Avengers films, I think Infinity War is the obvious standout, and at this point it’s probably the most underrated MCU film. Tremendous scope, the emotional stakes are among the heaviest; even if all the deaths are reversed (as can be expected), they land the first time around, which is what matters. And it’s…

Jaime still has to kill Cersei, so he’ll live.

This show follows very predictable narrative beats.

There’s no reason Dany would take anything he said more seriously than what Bran said.

No, Sansa’s only sexual experience is being raped by Ramsay for an unknown number of weeks/months.

The shot of Theon and Sansa doesn’t mean anything along those lines, since their whole relationship is show-only and thus cannot factor into her endgame.

I’m surprised we didn’t get a Sansa and Hound reunion given just about every other reunion happened.

I agree that there’s a good chance that they die, but with, say, Beric, he didn’t get any real focus this episode, so I didn’t list him as getting an “impending death edit”.

Episodes like this really highlight how the claim that this show is a comedy is the funniest thing about it.

Jorah would surely count as major, as would Theon.  Brienne could die too, though.

Sadly for Theon, this entire connection with Sansa is show-only, so it’s not going to help his survival odds at all.