
Originally Posted by
sonatine
with 12 hours of footage left, i see no conceivable reason to bring back Michelle Fairley.
there are only two ways this ends and neither needs a stoneheart:
1) somehow jon links up with dany and convinces her to sail to the north to fight the zombies (seriously?)
or
2) they do essentially parallel but only vaguely connected plots eg winterfell drama, dany, and zombies are essentially resolved independently of each other.
now in the latter, the last scene in the series could literally be MF's decomposing face leering as she hangs Freys. hell you could even swap out zombie Sansa for her, as suggested. but somehow this requires jon essentially peace'ing out on sansa's whole schtick and leaving her to deal with winterfell on her own. or with baelish. either way she almost definitely gets her throat opened up and could easily be stoneheart....
which also makes sense given baelish planting the whole 'half brother...' seed in her head regarding jons loyalties.