Fantastic, simple scene.
This whole episode was one of the best ever for me because it let hose moments *breathe*. This season has lacked downtime, simple conversations and basic moments. This had those, it had the big character moments, it had the earth shattering events. It had everything. I had hope for the Sansa scene as soon as I saw Bran there (and when I realized Arya had the dagger she had given to Sansa last episode) but I literally clapped as soon as Sansa turned to Littlefinger. I feel like they did a good enough job of telegraphing that Arya was not going to betray her family. That was the whole point of her speech last ep - family first.
Amusingly, I was annoyed early at Jon being an idiot, but the fact that Dany and Tyrion both called him on that, and the reality that it would have made no difference at all to Cersei in the end made it work out for me.
Why did they deserve a meeting? Whole point of this show is that you don't always get what you *deserve*. They had battle as schemers early, and Varys lost in a way, but in the end he stayed alive, and Littlefinger's obsession with Sansa and her mother did him in.
Other thoughts:
I don't think Tyrion is considering betraying Dany, I think he's just concerned where things are going. I thought that was Jorah at first which would have been more worrying
Jaime/Cersei scenes were great, final moment with her and the Mountain I legit expected to be his death, was more surprised he survived that than if he had died.
While I thought there would be other Lords at the meeting of Cersei and Dany to see the wight, I do hope the fact there were tons of random soldiers there will come up - they saw the same thing, and they'll tell others. The Dead coming will not stay secret and clearly the generals Jaime was talking with knew of what happened (or they would have been *really* confused as to why they were going North)
In that sense, the Wight plan did work to a degree - it was never going to really change Cersei, but it did make many in the south aware what was happening. It did result in the Night's King getting a Dragon to take down the wall with, but the Night's King certainly had a plan for how to get past it before starting his march and simply capitalized on the opportunity granted. In other words, he went from having to fight some sort of battle to get through it (and it may no longer have magic wards due to Bran), to being able to nuke it from orbit.
My expectation for the end:
Jon will find out his lineage, as will the rest of the realm, and Dany will be pregnant (Stark blood should keep the baby from being to f'd up), probably a girl to boot. Jon will ultimately die while riding the other living dragon taking out the Night's King on his dragon, ending the war. Hound/Mountain will both die in Cleganebowl. Euron will be killed by Theon, may or may not survive. Sansa, Arya, Bran will live (and Bran is *not* the Night's King). Cersei I'm unsure of... the fortune teller said three children, so I don't expect she'll make it to childbirth. Jaime will live and become Lord Lannister as a concession to Tyrion from Dany. Jorah, Berric die in battle.
On Jon's parentage - no one should be confused who the people involved are. Every character involved in that plot point have been mentioned as early as Season 1.
