Who Runs the 'Game of Thrones' World? Girls

WARNING: Spoilers!

Game of Thrones' "Battle of the Bastards" is being championed as one of the best episodes of the show's six-season run, a dazzling display of gritty warfare with enough awe-inspiring imagery and satisfying plot points to evoke actual applause from viewers. Yet the main takeaway from Sunday's episode was not that Jon Snow is a fearless leader (we knew that already), or that Ramsay Bolton sucked (ditto), or that the giant Wun-Wun will be missed far more than we thought he would be (RIP, big guy).

No, the main conclusion from "Battle of the Bastards" is that the women have gotten much better at the game than the men.

The most obvious example, of course, was Sansa Stark being right about literally everything when it came to the Battle of the Bastards. As she professes the night before the clash, she was the only one with any insight into Ramsay's demented mind, and she understood that her little brother, Rickon Stark, was marked for death before the battle even began.