[Buford The Sly]

To me the only area he's dropped the ball in is Dany's arch. However by the end of A Dance With Dragons it seems to be back on track. Dorne and the Iron Islands will play important parts in the end game I believe. He's said before in interviews that many POV character are going to start dropping off. A few of my thoughts on Winds are -

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1) Jon's not "dead" but we may have read his last POV chapter.
2)Tyrion may be the only significant Lannister left at the end of WOW.
3)Arya's going to make it back to Westeros to cause some havoc.
4)The Greyjoy's will "have" one or two of the Dragons.
5)Vary's is revealed as a Blackfyre to help young Griff take the Throne.
6)and my crazy crack pot theory is that the faceless men are somehow in league with The Others and will help release them on Westeros. I don't know, there's just something too similar with The Great Other that Melisandre is always on about and the "God of Many Faces". No one else found it peculiar that the boat full of Wildings ended up in Braavos?