But that makes it a twenty pound pumpkin head.

Speaking as a Texan, there is no way Trump’s head is meant for a Stetson. That is a nine-gallon head in a ten-gallon hat.

Aw, shucks! Thank you so much! Also, kudzu extermination needs to be the new fan nickname for this event.

I’m sure he will, which is another point: it’s not just about the Northern lords. If their enemies (which Littlefinger definitely is) see that division, it gives the cunning a wedge to drive between them and weaken the whole of the North. They just finished a civil war, and they don’t need to start a new one.

It’s one of my favorite things about GoT: even the ‘good’ characters have serious flaws, and the ‘evil’ characters can be virtuous and admirable. I just watched the scene in the Sept of Baelor again, with Tywin and Tommen discussing what makes a good king. Watching that brilliant and touching scene, it’s easy to…

It’s true: he should have pulled his advisers together prior to holding court. Regardless, he didn’t, and it’s irrelevant: whether it was the right or wrong decision, he is the King and that’s his decision. And he is holding court: regardless of whether or not they are a ‘rebel army,’ they are a rebel army that holds…

Which is all true, and something people have forgotten: Sansa is functionally a Southern aristocrat. While she was raised in the North, she received her training in politics in the South. She hasn’t learned, yet, how to read the politics and mood of the people in the North the way she was forced to in the Vale and in…

That was the reason he gave, but Walder Frey was a petty and exceedingly weaselly man: he was using it as an excuse, but the real reason was to gain dominance over the Riverlands.

Lollys Stokeworth is not exceptional, but her situation (being promised to an unscrupulous sellsword with only a single sibling in the way) is. And you brought up Lollys’ sister: she is only in that position because no male heirs were there to contend with.

The difference being that you’ve described several exceptional women from many different Houses, and all of them are in the positions they are because they broke the mold:

It...explicitly DID so.

That’s part of tactical training, and there is a reason for that. In a life or death situation, it is essential to act, and not think. Stopping to think might get you killed, and I’ve seen plenty of circumstances where hesitation has led to death.

No, you hold ‘small council’ meetings to make those decisions. This isn’t a meeting, this is holding court: the collected leadership of the North is there to offer counsel, hear the King’s edicts, and be given instructions on how the realm was to operate. That does not mean contradicting the King.

...you did see the Red Wedding, right? It wasn’t just Robb, Catelyn, and Talisa: it was a LOT of people. The Freys turned on the Starks in mass, slaughtered many of their soldiers and guests, desecrated the bodies (Catelyn was stripped and tossed into the Trident), and all while violating Guest Right. Robb breaking a…

Many of the European Gendarmes are very professional about what they do, but bear in mind that you were a tourist, and they knew that.

Which happens from time to time: the guy or gal in charge has to make a decision and run with it on the spot, and it may not be right or popular. In which case, the best thing to do is still find a place after all is said and done and address the problem without making it look like Mom and Dad are fighting.

She spoke first...but the decision was not hers to make. You’re looking at this as a brother-sister ‘woman know your place thing,’ and it’s not. Jon isn’t just her brother: he’s the King. That is functionally different from any other relationship they have, and it sets them in very different spheres of influence and…

1) You’re assuming that the Frey women are the same kind of women that we see in the Stark, Lannister, Tully, and Martell households. I think it’s clear that, from what we’ve seen of the Freys, they did not raise their women in that manner (repressed them severely, in fact) and those that do have political acumen are…

You’re supposed to be bothered by it: it shows how desperate their situation is now. I think that’s the thing that actually rammed it home for the Lords of the North: you could see their collective “Oh, shit,” expression when Jon said that.