I think they have set up things pretty well for season 4...One thing I am interested is in how much King's Landing they can have next season since book 4 and 5 mostly deal with other things (wall, mereen, etc) and the show definitely prefers KL over other locations...
Watching the encore by the way...Jon Snow has some great moments/scenes in this episode...
They also are really slow-playing the Wall storyline. Jon Snow and Crew still have stuff from the third book to get through.
Yea for me your first two points
is what I found mainly missing...also I thought they might sneak in
..
The ones that seem to open well and then have good legs are the one which can play up the comedic element at least in the marketing...I didn't see that from Dragons trailers/marketing...