A more in depth look at the design behind the battle.
They really took the bodies making a barrier thing a little too literally. Sure a wall of bodies a couple high would be quite possible. But those were proper neatly stacked hills of bodies. Piled up like they had time to clear up and make a stack. Not to mention that they took that from the civil war era. Medieval battles, bar a few in particular that I can think of had relatively low numbers of serious casualties. Most of the battles that had significant numbers were in routs where an army was given no quarter when they fled or straight up slaughters.
Can anyone remind me why Littlefinger decided to take the Vale north to wreck the Boltons again, I can't recall anything that makes sense? I am not sure how the North situation will be resolved now, since Littlefinger is a greedy bitch and he is the only one left with an army up there. Also, Dany went from being a hobo lost somewhere in the boonies to being all geared up for a Westeros invasion in like three episodes, pretty stupid.
Littlefinger is actually one of the few things that does make sense. He's saved Jon Snow, who isn't a Stark so ultimately isn't a threat. The only Stark left that anyone knows of is Sansa, who is now a widow. Littlefinger is hungry for land and power, he will literally do anything to get it. Whether it be betrayal, changing sides ect ect. He's arguably the best at the political game in the show. If he can pretty much force Sansa into marriage through obligation he'll be one of the most powerful men in Westeros to back it up. Seeing as the name is the one thing Littlefinger lacks besides wealth, and now an army, by marrying a Stark he gets as close as he can get to a noble lineage.
I think there's even a bit in the show a few seasons back where he talks about the fact no one takes him seriously because he's not from a 'great' family and he's spiteful because of it. Increasing his wealth and power so he can challenge the status quo is pretty much what he's all about, with a little bit of pure greed thrown in.
That would take his tally of control up to the North, Harrenhall (forgotten if he still technically controls that in the show) and the Vale. Which is pretty nuts.
Not to mention the entire sequence of events that leads Ned Stark into Kings Landing was started by Littlefinger. He's pretty much the reason everything got so fucked up in the first place. He sows chaos because he's smart enough to manoeuvre himself to come out on top in it all.
I'm kind of wondering how they will deal with him. He's the snake in the grass and most of the characters, especially the Stark's, have been too naive to see it until it was too late. At some point they are going to have to drag him down.
