Didn't Jamie just threaten to launch Edmure Tully's baby into Riverrun with a catapult if he failed to betray his House? If Jamie's discovering his goodness and nobility, he's taking his sweet time about it.

Well. . . I think the de jure status of just about everyone in the North depends on who you ask. Outside the North, there's no such thing as a "King in the North" in the first place.

Also: where did Arya find the time to bake like that? Did she kill the whole kitchen staff?

I know. Tommen finally gathered the courage to take decisive action . . and that's what he chose to do with it?

Actually, she can't. Only a King (or a Queen) can do that, and the King in the North is now "Jon Snow".

It's a long shot, but at this point, I wouldn't absolutely write off Sansa. Dany's not cut out to rule, and by this point she knows it. The best way to form alliances is by marriage. It wouldn't be completely unthinkable for Dany to leave the Seven Kingdoms in the hands of a (re-married) Queen Sansa and King Tyrion,…

Also, she has an issue with the whole custom of burial. She doesn't want to picture yet another of her children's corpses slowly rotting away.

Good call. I think at this point, Cersei is in the same place as Macbeth at the end of Act V. She knows she's stuck in a prophecy that will spell her doom, so her anger now is at the universe itself. Her goal is no longer to "win" by defeating the prophecy, but to subvert the prophecy by taking everyone else down with…

We still don't know for certain that her immediate replacement is going to be Dany. It might be Sansa. In fact, after this episode, I wouldn't be utterly shocked if she's briefly replaced by Arya disguised as Cersei.

So many style points to Arya, and to the writers, for referencing Titus Andronicus.

I think Arya's going to get her. The tragedy will be that she could easily kill Tyrion as well, since as far as she knows he's just another Lannister sociopath.

I would have rather seen Rickon do what everyone thinks he should have done and run as if he expected Ramsay Bolton to shoot him in the back (zig! zag! stop! jump left!), causing Ramsay to miss his shot again and again and again.

Really, the most poignant shot in this episode was the flashback of Shireen clutching that stag as she was led to the stake that they used to set the shot with Davos up.

I don't think Ramsay's army was at anything close to its original numbers when Littlefinger arrived. . . and the survivors would have been exhausted from a long morning of medieval warfare, which I think we can all agree looks rather strenuous.

P.S.: I should have cited some examples. Queen Victoria's consort was Prince Philip. The current Queen of England, Elizabeth II, has a seldom-mentioned husband as well, who is also (coincidentally) named Prince Philip.

Sansa *can't* continue the Stark line, since she'd have to marry into another family to produce an heir, and the heir would carry that family's name.

Also, Littlefinger being Littlefinger, he wanted the slaughter on both sides to reach its maximum possible extent, so that the Arryn forces would be the dominant power in the North. It's ruthless as hell (and if Sansa was aware of that and complicit, so is she), but it's the smart way to play it.

No; but it would involve doing something selfless and brave.

Traditional Northerners might take issue with Sansa for not being a male heir to House Stark; but she can continue the Stark line, which means a great deal.

I'm guessing the only Wildlings with a real plan in that regard were the Thenns, who probably figured (wrongly) that at worst they could at least live through winter by eating the bodies of the dead. (Alas, the Others have pretty much flipped that script).