(Spoilers Main) They only need three people, not three episodes, to deal with Cersei

They could have had her sitting there disguised as Bran. NK slowly comes up to Bran, all seems lost. Suddenly Bran stands up. WTF? Bran has the dagger. He stabs the NK. Pulls off his face and hey it's Arya!

That's an incredibly simple change and it would have been so much better than what we got. It would have been fitting for Arya's training. It would have meant our heroes actually had more strategy than "have Bran sit in the wood with 20 archers and do nothing".

Not sure how clearly they've established whether or not the face needs to be from a dead person. You could argue that since she's a sibling, she could disguise herself as him a lot easier. Even if he did have to die - it gives Bran a good reason to sacrifice himself.

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