Man, what an episode!
As various empires and generals in the course of history seemed to have a hard time to figure out the basic concept of "Don't invade Russia when it's winter", Dany's enemies as well have a baffling difficulty in grasping the concept that she has three muthafackin dragons, which after all it's all she ever talk about. Maybe this time around they will learn.
Anyway, think of the various discussions about the plans... the time it must have took them to decide which maester to kill
seriously, how they all talked it down? "Ok, you go out with the dragon, then we will let the other ones free, meanwhile we'll send a raven or something to the Khalasar so that they will come in once the fleet is ablaze, now about the maesters dying... who are we gonna kill? the asshole one? mh, if someone asks to die willingly, kill him, and if someone offers another kill him instead... what if they gang up on another one? ok, kill the other two then". And so on
For the battle in the north... amazing coreography, indeed. Cruel soundtrack game here, they have music building up tension in what appears to be the fatal shot for Rickon, and then he escapes, and then just out of nowhere he gets shut down. Bummer. All the entire scene I was figuratively screaming at him "RUN ZIG-ZAG YOU MORON!!!!"... why did he have to make Ramsay's job easy?
Ramsay was obviously gonna bite the bullet, and obviously there would have been side casualties for our heroes. Rickon and Wun Wun were the most likely ones, and I was starting to fear for Tormund, likely he survived. It's really cliched to have the knights of the Vale arriving especially when the battle was about to be lost, I only wonder why Sansa never told Jon directly "Listen, don't be pissed off at me, but I've already asked Littlefinger for help, can't you just wait a day or two more?"
I took a savage pleasure in watching Jon beating Ramsay down with his bare hands. When he stopped I thought he would have let Sansa kill him there and then, but it's equally satisfying to have him ripped to pieces by his own dog. Never felt so good since Joffrey's death and Cersei's walk of shame.
Now, on to a hopefully wonderful final episode! I espect a glorious mess happening in King's Landing....