>- if everyone knows that Ramsay is batshit crazy, why does
>Sansa have to burn a candle in the tower saying she's is
>danger? It should be a given.

Because they're giving her space to do things her way rather than charging in and getting told to fuck off like Brienne's earlier in the season.


>
>- why can't melisandre just have one of those smoke babies to
>kill Ramsay in the manner she that killed stannis' brother?


She's trying - that's what the conversation about Shireen was about this week. She needs to sacrifice royal blood for her magic to work.