The key events that LEAD to war begin with Jon Arryn’s murder.

You typed a 38-word, all caps rant: either you need to calm down, or you need to cut your sugar intake.

You typed a 38-word, all caps rant: either you need to calm down, or you need to cut your sugar intake.

...Huh?

“Down with their pointy hats!”

But those have nothing to do with the war itself: they don’t instigate the movements of troops or armies. They are part of the conditions which shaped the start of the war, but the actual beginning of the conflict was the abduction of Tyrion.

I was wondering that myself.

The irony being, of course, that the novel Death Wish painted that character as a murdering psychopath. Not that the conservatives see it that way: it’s better to have clean vigilante justice!

Gypsies...huh.

The murder of Jon Arryn was the one of several acts that led to the events of the War, but if you’re saying that’s the opening act, you might as well say that Robert Baratheon marrying Cersei Lannister was the first act, as their incompatibility and her relationship with her brother produced the children that Robert…

There has been way too many shootings, agreed.

...I did read the article. Did you read my comments?

They aren’t poorly chosen: the process tends to be very rigorous. For instance, the Minneapolis Police Department won’t hire police recruits without either two year or four year law enforcement degrees, after which they are the given an oral board (which is a job interview conducted by three to five senior police…

It’s not exactly pragmatism: Catelyn’s determination to get Tyrion tried for murder (when there was only circumstantial evidence he tried to assassinate Bran) was the first step in the cascading political collapse that led to the War of the Five Kings. With Arya, it’s put her at odds with the Faceless Men, and almost…

His wife (Jeyne Westerling) is alive, but not pregnant, at least not that we know of: she disappears after Robb’s story is done, and when she reappears, she’s described in such a way as to heavily imply that the ‘Jeyne’ the POV character is encountering (at this time, it’s Jaime, breaking the Siege of Riverrun) is an…

Yup - bitter and brooding.

In a lot of ways, he’s like Stannis in that: he’s not King because he wants to be but because he has to be.

That is a fact: Sansa is focused on the short game of securing House Stark and just surviving. As far as she is concerned, Cersei Lannister’s the true threat. Of course, she hasn’t seen the Army of the Dead, which isn’t her fault: it’s such an outside context problem that there’s no way she can adequately begin…

I’ve gotten the sense that Sansa is very aware of the danger Littlefinger poses, and in the very least, she’s still very keenly aware of the role he played in marrying her to Ramsey. I am frankly surprised Littlefinger is at ease around her as much as he seems to be.

I’m getting the sense that you are very emotionally invested in this argument, which is...odd, but whatever.