I actually do think we'll see the wildling horde approaching the Wall next week, that's probably going to be our omg ending as far as the Jon Snow storyline goes.   And it might even be the final image of the episode -- as closers go, that's a pretty good one.

Either way, I think Lady Stoneheart is gonna be in there, too - chronologically that happens immediately after the RW, so it makes sense to get to it now rather than next season.

Well if that's the case, then what will be the big OMG that closes the episode and the season and gets people speculating about next season?   

Season One closed with OMG dragons!
Season Two closed with OMG Walkers!
Season Three... ?

Well, if I was assigned to write it....

Early on, maybe right at the start of the episode: The morning after the RW, the Freys are celebrating and mopping up.  We see Robb's body with his wolf's head sewn on, Catelyn dumped in the river.  Flawless victory for the Lannisters. Sad, sad, sad.

Follow somebody else for a while... then back to...

Arya's vision where she wargs into Nymeria and pulls her mother's body from the river, then flees when the Brotherhood arrives.   

Alternate, just show it straight rather than through a vision - but the vision is a nice way to tie it to Arya, whom we also need to see in this episode.  So let's make the vision the beginning of her segment, then she wakes up from it - what did THAT mean?    And then we resolve her adventure with the Hound and she's done for the season.

Follow others again for a bit...

End of episode, The Brotherhood around the fire, doing a ritual.  We're not sure what it's about at first... mumbo jumbo mumbo jumbo... holy shit.  Zombie Catelyn WTF

End credits.

That's why you can always spot House Swarthmore on the battlefield - they have the largest banners.

Coldhands never shows his face, not even to Bran and the others.  The only visible part of him are his frozen hands.

Which would make sense if he's trying to avoid being recognized by his nephew... or could be a red herring so we'll assume it's Benjen and be wrong later.

Well, that one is by far the best title, too...

Now you're talking.

If you only need five songs then you could just stick to the celebrity tales and call the album Brushes With Greatness or summat.

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Was there somebody somewhere who thought there would be?

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That is quite awesome.

Yeah, you gotta give Sansa a lot of slack.  This all started when she was fourteen goddam years old, and look at what she's been through since then.   Most of it completely on her own.   

What's interesting is that Cersei has basically been coaching Sansa on how to play this game, and she's already starting to catch on.  The question is, how good at it will she get?  smile

Now that you mention it, that's very likely the way they'll do it.  They don't have the time for a lot of extra business on the show-pretty much everything is there for a reason.  And they took the time to do the Dontos setup.

Which paves the way to bring Dontos back early next season, hey remember me?  You saved my life etc etc.  Then let them build their plot for a few episodes, then flip that all on its head with the Joffrey Surprise mid-season.

Back half of the season is the fallout from that - Tyrion accused, Cersei goes batshit, Sansa and Littlefinger run for the Aerie.  And then the season-ender (or episode 9 smile) Tyrion pays a call on Dad.

EDIT:  New thought - it would make a certain kind of sense to bring Dontos back in the last episode of THIS season and introduce the idea of a plot right now.  That could plant the seed for next season's arc: Sansa Makes Her Move

In the books, yeah - same here.  I'm hoping for a serious revenge spree once Arya graduates Assassin School.

On the show, I gotta go with the easy answer - Dinklage has made Tyrion much more sympathetic and adorable than the one I imagined from the books.

We also see Jon get burned in the series when he fights off the wights on the Wall - which is about the only argument I know of against him being Targaryaen.   But I justify it because he's only half-dragon whereas Danaerys is pure (if incestuous) Targaryaen.