Ramsay wins, he has to, otherwise it's a happy ending. He recaptures Sansa and does despicable things to her, he kills Rickon, the season ends with Littlefinger trying to free her. All the Wildings die and Jon is left to retreat with Davos and Melisandre who again has to admit that she was wrong about the Prince who was promised. Meanwhile in King's Landing Cersei's trial begins. The season there will end with her conviction and Tommen suddenly being deposed by the Faith since he has no right to the Iron Throne and finally everyone there (Tommen, Maergery, Cersei, and company) find that they have all been out maneuvered by the High Sparrow.
Has anyone else found the "After the Thrones", or whatever it's called, incredibly lame?
They're not even trying to be interesting.
And the two dudes get everything WRONG, so they bring in the chick to correct them.
Not a fan. And neither seemingly are they, they're so dispassionate about the whole thing. And they seem to know so little.
Price to pay? Sansa must marry Sweetrobin. Eeeewwww…. Since I suspect thay Robyn of the Vale is Littlefinger's son… But no DNA back then.
I hadn't thought of this. Maybe this is why Lysa and Littlefinger poisoned Jon Arryn. Maybe his last words "the blood is strong" didn't refer so much to King Robert as to himself. LF's hold on the Vale derives from "SweetRobin's" claim, if "SweetRobyn" has no claim then Petyr has no base of power left. Unless of course he has some sort of side deal with the Tyrells.
So Littlefinger's possible plot to rise to power may look like this;
1)Eliminate Jon Arryn
2)Eliminate King Robert
These first two let him free up the Vale and the Iron Throne and allow it to pass into the less capable hands of Cersei.
3)Eliminate Ned Stark
Who wants honorable men around when there's a Throne to steal. Plus it frees up Sansa.
4)Make a side deal with the Tyrells while arranging Maergery's marriage to Joffrey.
This allows Littlefinger to request and receive a notable Lordship raising him in rank enough to Marry Lysa.
5) Kill Joffrey, thereby creating the confusion to allow Sansa to escape as well as making the Tyrell's deeply beholden to him and removing Tyrion from the picture.
Along the way of course Littlefinger has had some lucky breaks. Sansa as Alayne could have sold him out to the Lords of the Vale, he probably would have killed Lysa anyway but her death was fortuitous Tyrion killing Tywin wasn't predictable but was of great use to Littlefinger.
6)Convince Maergery to play her little game with the High Sparrow.
This makes Maergery think that Littlefinger is on her side and that he's helping her do away with Cersei but she doesn't realize that she is also doing away with Tommen and herself. So the Tyrells are out of the picture as are the Lannisters. All he has to do now is to knock off the High Sparrow and he's done it. He'll have his candidate placed on the Iron Throne. Who knows, maybe a Stone will appear in front of the High Sept with a sword embedded in it with the words "He that pulleth out this Sword is the True born King of all Westeros"".
starts his new Amazon army at the top, with an airborne general!