I beg to disagree. It was telegraphed from the start and the easiest and least interesting way to resolve the battle. 99% of viewers could have told you going into the episode that it would be resolved by Magical Transporting Littlefinger beaming in his army in the 12th hour.

Remember how no army can make it up the Neck and through Moat Caitlin without taking massive losses? Well, it turns out that the Moat was just about as useful as the Maginot Line in WW2.

He did better than Stannis, the greatest military mind of the Seven Kingdoms undone by Ramsey Snow and a "dozen good men"

Except that the way the scene between Jon and Sansa is written, you are left thinking that Jon's starting strategy was the wrong one since Sansa (inexplicably to me) criticizes him for it.

That's why I miss the book version of Ellaria, who was strong insofar as she was one of the few people to recognize that the cycle of violence and revenge was destroying her family and all her loved ones. Then of course the show turned her into a crazy bloodthirsty psycho because the only way that a woman can be…

I really hope that the Battle for Winterfell doesn't resolve in any way like this in the books because all the set-up of Book 5 with the imminent Manderly betrayal of the Boltons, the tensions between the Northmen and the Freys, 'The north remembers,' Stannis learning of the Karstark betrayal, the ice lake where the…

It would totally make starting the bloodiest war in Westerosi history worth it.

But what was her advice? "Don't do what Ramsey expects?" Couldn't she have mentioned something like "You might have thousands of the most elite, well rested, and well led army in the Seven Kingdoms arrive to help you, maybe put off starting the battle tomorrow"?

And Davos didn't die! Because, let's face it, the odds of Ser Davos making it out of this battle were even worse than the odds of having any surviving Starks by the series finale.

The Romans were actually able to compensate for the physical short-comings of their soldiers by constantly filtering out and alternating who was at the front line of the legion. But most medieval armies lacked the discipline and training of the Romans, so it wouldn't be odd to find battles with rather long lulls in…

Juliet Barker's "Agincourt, Henry V and the Battle that Made England" is excellent and it shows really well the limited range of maneuver and numbers even in late medieval battles. So is Michael Jones' "Bosworth 1485" and Dolbruck's (by now, very very old) classic "The Art of war in the middle ages."

Medieval battles were surprisingly bloodless, at least at the moment of contact. Most casualties would be sustained when one of the armies broke and its troops fled in chaos. Armies of peasants generally weren't the most efficient killers, and with some exceptions - the Mongols, the Ottomans, and a few battles of the…

Mass charge by armored cavalry that magically arrived unseen to the battlefield aka the only way that climactic battles are allowed to end in ASOIAF and Game of Thrones. You would think that Martin or the show writers would at least look up a few famous battles on wiki and come up with a different resolution to at…

If Jamie's grandfather is Lord Lovat, does that mean that the Lord Lovat of WWII fame that landed on Sword Beach on D-Day accompanied by his bag-pipist is Jaime or Jenny's great-great-great-grandson? If so, we know from where he got both his famous sense of humor and immense personal bravery and tenaciousness.

The worst part was that you basically HAD to finish that quest-line to unlock your special Specter abilities.. Luckily there was a glitch where re-loading a save healed the MAKO up to full on the 360 which I had to use because I just couldn't handle blowing up yet another Geth compound.

it certainly was… the last 5 or so hours of ME1 are absolutely fantastic, both action and plot-wise

It's not as bad as the Deep Roads though; once you've played the Fade once, you'll know all the tricks to make it go quickly. But in the Deep Roads, there's no shortcut through the literally hundreds of mobs you have to cut down. Luckily if you load up on mages with AoE, you can kill all the mass of Hurlocks…

You have to be nice to Djikstra to get it, completing his side-quests and of course, not breaking his leg. And I think you have to finish Roche and Ves's short side quests too in order for it to trigger.

That level was the first time I had to use a cheat to beat a game. It didn't help that Rainbow 6 didn't have any 'save' or 'checkpoint' system so I would end up failing it even when I had done 95% of it correctly.

Luckily there's been mods to skip it available for at least a decade.