I'm pretty sure she's writing to Littlefinger, who's already on the march with the forces of the Vale. The list of people with gigantic armies who might potentially contribute them to Sansa's cause isn't a long one.

I think the Waif disregarded Jaqen's instructions "not to let her suffer." Arya is suffering plenty. I think Jaqen till kill the Waif for that, and perhaps he can somehow heal Arya.

Many did. NASA was flooded with would-be volunteers.

I see what you mean, and how that system could work. I like the Gift of the Magi framing of their system, but I think (in true Gift of the Magi) fashion that a non-monetary price for someone's life would need to be poetic and shocking. . .and specifically linked to the nature of the quarrel.

To an extent, I agree. . . but they can't be the Walmart of Death. There's no way that Braavos could survive if everyone has the ability to anonymously slaughter anyone they want, at any time, for any reason.

True. . . . and if we're entertaining cool but totally speculative theories, what if "Lady Crane" is a Faceless Man herself? Maybe her role was to impartially observe Arya in action, from the point of view of a target, as a kind of final exam. The purpose would be to make sure that Arya was a smooth enough killer to…

It hadn't occurred to me that the Lannisters might be pretending that Myrcella died of natural causes, but now that you've pointed it out, I can see why they might choose to do that. They can't conceal the fact that Trystane was murdered, though. . . although it's possible that the (Dornish) captain of that (Dornish)…

I think Melisandre has her doubts about whether Stannis was in fact the Lord of Light. As Jon aptly pointed out, for all her other gifts and mysterious powers, reading prophecies in the flames was never her strong suit. Sometimes it works, but far more often it doesn't.

True, Tywin had to eradicate the Reynes and the Tarbecks because Tytos was such a wuss; and Tywin is dead; but Jamie is probably considered by the Lannister bannermen to be almost as terrifyingly ruthless as Lord Tywin was himself. (His reputation as the "Kingslayer" is actually a plus, in that regard).

I'd been picturing that as well. . . but magic in GoT is almost always disturbing, so in a way the notion of a time-jumping Bran subtly messing with peoples' heads and urging them to mayhem is a better fit than a dragon-riding Bran with an army of Direwolves.

The mission profile might not make a lot of sense, but something very similar was (briefly) under consideration as a mission plan for a Moon landing. Out of desperation to beat the Soviets to the Moon (NASA mistakenly believed they were neck-and-neck with their Russian counterparts), it was proposed that a volunteer…

Lannister did take it harder than Tyrell, and they've suffered plenty of other high-profile setbacks in recent months as well. . . but the greatest House sworn to House Lannister ( the one that probably would be defying them at this point) was House Reyne of Castamir. . .which made the mistake of defying the…

Exactly. The French word for "now" has three syllables. The Dothraki word for "now" should be one syllable at most. Really, it should be even faster than that. A glottal click, maybe.

Well, in a modern culture, sure. . . but in a medieval culture, honor is a resource, not a virtue. If you're made to appear weak, you are weak. House Tyrell doesn't just have Lannisters and Martells and Arryns and the Faith Militant (and possibly Greyjoys) to contend with- it's not a monolith. Their power is built on…

You're right- I rewatched the scene and it's the younger actress who Arya's accusing. I'm not sure why I thought it was the director. But that just makes it even less plausible that she could afford to hire the Faceless Men. They're not the Walmart of Death.

Fair point; but it wouldn't be cheesy if he turned out to be responsible for just a few of them. In fact, I think it's almost necessary. He's in the story to do something, after all. . . and based on the exorbitant amount of screen time that it's taken to establish him as the "Three-Eyed Crow", it had best be…

On the bright side, that rule only applies for as long as the Lannisters keep winning. . .

I think this is less about control than about the impossibility, now that Tommen and Margery have embraced him on the steps of the High Sept, of Houses Lannister and Tyrell avenging themselves on him for their humiliation.

One last minor quibble. I've rewatched that speech, and I don't care who they hired to develop Dothraki language and grammar. I flat-out refuse to believe that there are three syllables in the Dothraki word for "Now!"

Well, I think it was actually the director who supposedly hired the Faceless Men to kill the actress over creative differences, but yes. There's no way the Faceless Men would go around Braavos poisoning innocent nobodies for pocket change, at the behest of every pissant who raps on their door with some petty…