Hello, first post, be gentle with me... I've not read the books (yet), so my ignorance of them must be taken into account. I wanted to offer a few observations and ideas about the Yara Flees From Dogs scene. First, this is a classic Ramsay trope, setting his hounds on a woman, even down to giving her a head start. Presumably he doesn't need the hounds to win, as Yara and co. are probably heavily outnumbered, but he just can't resist. Secondly, even before the Mr. Burns moment, Yara is already negotiating, offering Theon's release as a price for leaving without further deaths. Given that she is Iron Born, accustomed to "paying the iron price", she is already calculating that she will lose a straight up fight here. Otherwise she would still be fighting and just take Theon by force. This calculation is supported by the whole stealth mode of the raid. So, in her position it looks like 1. she will lose a fight if she stays. 2. Theon/Reek is far enough gone as to no longer be her brother, even if she wins (and she knows that she will not win, cannot emphasise that enough). So she can die for nothing, and have more men die for nothing, or leave. The fact that their current foe will likely flay torture and dismember them rather than just kill may also colour the choices somewhat. Thus far the logic of her actions is impeccable. It's not that she is running from the dogs, per se. They do make an already un-winnable fight even more one sided, but Ramsay's fondness for hunting fleeing women with dogs gives her a shot at escaping, and she takes it. Where I do feel it's a bit odd is to not even try to kill Ramsay with an axe throw, just for revenge. Granted we've already seen he's probably capable enough a fighter to evade or parry such an attempt, and maybe she reasons if he is sadist enough to give them a head start she will take advantage of that and use it to escape. I'll have to re-watch to see if I'm reading the scene correctly. As others have pointed out, the show! writers were painted into a bit of a corner with her mission which could neither rescue Theon nor result in Yara or Ramsay getting killed, and I think given the constraints of sharing an episode with The Trial the writer did reasonably well to exposit that she tried, saw Theon's transformation/Stockholm Syndrome/brainwashing, and decided to write him off. Not the greatest scene in the whole thing, but it got us from A to B while staying reasonably true to what we know of the characters and culture at this point.
