Bran?

No way it would've survived.

Still an unanswered question and it makes no sense other than for forced dramatic tension between the characters.

Not sure if I feel trepidatious about Sansa's revenge-sadism or if I'm pleased with her bad-assness. On the one hand, yes, amazing, awesome, Ramsay got what he deserved and brilliant that SHE did it to him, but does it push her over an edge into a different category of person to 1) stay and watch the carnage and, 2)…

Point.

I think they were just impoverished and backwards fishermen?

Yes, it still doesn't make any sense to me why Sansa held that info back, other than to artificially create tension in the show or between the characters, and until they talk about it more it's gonna feel fake and inauthentic.

How prominent are kicks in western style fighting or even just brawling?

It's weird how predictable the Vale knights charged in was and yet how satisfying it managed to be. The tension of the preceding 15 minutes delivered the payoff cinematically.

Though I still loved it all the same.

Felt, and even looked a lot like, Gandalf and the Rohirrim charging down that hill to Helm's Deep.

Why name one of them after Viserys, btw? Odd.

Yes!!! And that's the first time he's set foot in his home courtyard in how long???… Where he and his bros so often practiced archery.

Looks like Dany isn't quite tipping over into villainy. Finally someone's gonna reform the Ironborn's We Do Not Sow bullshit. Which means I guess she won't let the Dothraki rape and pillage throughout Westeros?

Other homages: to Braveheart, when we see Ramsay is totally fine with letting his archers fire on his own men (when Davos holds back from doing same); to 300, with the "hooo" when the shield/spear formation was going on; some of camera work with the Vale Knights riding in felt very reminiscent of Helms Deep from Two…

I expected/hoped that Ghost and not Ramsay's dogs was going to emerge from the darkness to devour him.

We'll find him in the series epilogue, pacifistic and content in his old age, running a leech farm.

Davos freed him and he took off in a little dinghy. And he's been rowing himself around the Narrow Sea ever since.

Watched it again and it seemed more on the mark. Shame she had to die.

Extract of Starman. If you look closely as she's running and leaping thru the streets and alleys at the end, she's flashing gold.