i still doubt they get to all of this tho.

(you meant 'shae', btw)

>The essentials:
>
>- Jon and Mance meet, but Stannis shows up to save the day.
>- Jon gets elected to head the Watch. I figure they need to
>show this, including the part where Stannis offers him a
>chance to leave the Watch and become the heir to Winterfell.
>They gotta show Jon choosing duty to Watch over the chance to
>become a Lord.
>- Tyrion breaking out and killing Tysha and Tywin.
>- Arya leaving the Hound to die, and then getting on the boat
>to Braavos
>- Something with Mereen. Possibly the return of Xaro Xhoan
>Daxos to attack the city.
>- Lady Stoneheart. Hopefully killing some Freys in the
>process.
>
>Just once I'd like them to do an hour and half or hour and 15
>minute episode or something. I think HBO would let them get
>away with it. Shoot, they've given extra run time to Treme, I
>think they can do it for their most watch show ever.
>
>As for this episode, it worked well enough. I think I would
>have liked it better if they'd spread out the battle over many
>episodes, like in the book, but budget and time constraints
>probably prevented that. This episode definitely had some
>great moment though.
>
>And it looks like Tormund is taking the place Rattleshirt, in
>that he'll probably be the one who gets glamoured to look like
>Mance and then burned alive. A shame, since I liked Tormund,
>but they're not going to let him off after he killed so many
>members of the Night's Watch.