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Admitted that the whole storyline in Qarth was lightweight and I've read that it just was not part of the books. But there was an obvious reason driving the script writeres: the Khalissi is a character incredibly popular with the viewers for obvious reasons, and they wanted to keep her role and a storyline about her prominent in this season for the viewers. What they concocted for her seems like a silly fairy tale compared to the authentic plotlines.
About the final days of Winterfell, I'm confused. It looked to me like Theon got killed. An arrow in the back. From the plot summaries I've read, in the book, he got knocked unconscious so that his soldiers could trade him for their freedom on their way out the gates. I can't understand any motive to destroy it except by those who could not hold it permanently but wanted to deprive anyone else from an ability to use and exploit it. It's a good question, and it seems to me that if it was done intentionally, it must have been the contingent of Ironmen. But in the confusion of their brutal occupation of Winterfell, it could have started by misadventure or accident. The shot on TV showed it smoldering, not burning. I suspect that the mood of that visual and what it says is more important than how the fire started.
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Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice. . . Restraint in the pursuit of Justice is no virtue.
Senator Barry Goldwater, 1964
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