It makes at LEAST as much sense as marrying into your family's #1 enemy's family "for revenge."

In the books, the Greatjon is a captive at The Twins post-RW. Smalljon is the one who gets killed.

What's the over/under on the Little Birds Pycelling Qyburn?

Maybe all the remaining Starklings can form their own armies and straighten out the North.

Srsly, no more dead wolfies, plz.

Serious answer: because the nobles looked down on archers as like, commoner trash.

I hope in the books Targ loyalist Alliser Thorne lives long enough to learn about R+L=J.

Well I guess we know now which option he settled on.

Yeah, when Yara said the thing about pinecones (to Balon?), I was like, "There goes her "gold of Winterfell" speech."

This seems right to me, too. Also, since they don't need Yara for anything she was doing in ADWD/the TWOW preview chapter in which we saw her, and I guess that was probably her playing kissy face with a tear-tattooed slave prostitute in the trailer we probably won't be seeing Victarion. (Or Qarl the Maid, miss you…

You'd think that Jaime might have an idea, given that he suspects Ellaria and Co of Myrcella's murder, per his note to Poor Dead Doran last week.

Or maybe the FrankenMountain just happened to be grabbin' a refreshing beer at the biergarten and heard it himself.

I think we saw Late Lord Frey in one of the trailers, so I think we'll be seeing them soon.

It probably mattered to her.

Book Roose has a vague deathwish, but it seems like he thinks Ramsey will kill his kids, but never him.

I'm just going to fill in those blanks with "Davos thinks he needs to get the wildlings to Stannis to supplement his army, thinks Jon is best route to that," seeing as how he doesn't know Stannis is dead. If I put more thought into it than that, it's all going to fall apart.

Even the oblique reference (Tommen somehow knowing that Trystane had been killed and mentioning looking for the killers) made me have a bit of an eyeroll.

I enjoyed Balon's shoutout to his outliving the other Kings in the War of the Five Kings. Faretheewell.

Assuming The Truth of Jon Snow's Parentage is… what people think it is, and given why Alliser Thorne is in the Night's Watch to begin with, I hope Thorne lives long enough for it to be revealed.

At least he's got more work lined up.