To each his own. I'm not saying it was a bad scene (although the "only child" line was a little too cheesy for my tastes), but in a show like this I think the real estate would have been better spent elsewhere.

I get that. I think it's a common theme in this series though of the younger generation taking over for the older one and failing to understand what they've inherited. In Ramsay's case, he clearly gets the cruelty of the house with the flayed man sigil, but not the calculation.

For most people it wasn't that they were offended by the scene, it's that it was redundant, since we all knew exactly what he was going to do. Also, it kind of retroactively took away some of the power of the scene beforehand by dragging on for as long as it did. Personally, I thought Iwan Rheon acted the hell out of…

Tbf he probably does actually do that in real life. Doesn't mean I can't resent him for it though!

"He's sleeping with a nurse (Rebecca Metz) who feeds his drug habit."

He sure did like skinning people and orchestrating massacres that killed his coworkers' family members.

To each his or her own.

Personally, there's always so many weapons on all of these characters all the time that stuff like that doesn't stand out anymore.

I don't disagree that Ramsay's one of the more one note characters in the story, or that that scene with Walda (aside from a couple subtleties of Rheon's performance) would have been better served as a deleted scene. I think you still need to analyze what's happening in his scenes and why, though. Too often, I see…

Like I said, we'll see how it pans out. Early days.

As long as the trains run on time, I don't think anyone cares. I mean, Roose Bolton was a nut in his own way, and Tywin had no friends, but people still backed them. Besides, we're only two episodes in, let's check back after the finale to see whether the entire North is still OK with Ramsay in power.

That's the way I'll interpret it.

Sorry, but I don't agree. I think the show did the groundwork in showing that Roose didn't understand just how deep seated Ramsay's psychosis is, and that a potential flaw of his would be being too cautious and slow to act when faced with someone who is almost suicidally impulsive. It also hammered home the point that…

Hm. Well I'm slightly disappointed because I like my interpretation better, obviously (although the premeditated version is also very compelling). Either way, still a great scene and a nice cap to the relationship between those characters.

We'll just have to agree to disagree. I think it makes more sense for all the characters involved for it to be a crime of spontaneous passion. Roose would see anything else coming, and Ramsay is more interesting (and vulnerable) if he's more or less completely ruled by his impulses.

People HATE Ramsay so they think every second of him on screen is just monotonous, boring evil and seem to not want to critically analyze it. But Iwan Rheon has found a lot of nuance in his portrayal.

Oh I know, just joking about the similarities between the characters and how their sons took them out.

RIP Roose, you died as you lived: exactly like Tywin Lannister.

Especially for book readers. That was the high point of the episode for me, not Jon Snow's rez.

The Wire had way more characters, and everyone acts like they totally got that show. If you can follow a storyline involving Odell Watkins, you can follow this show.