The opposite is certainly not true.

Which was redundant. Why would I repeat examples you already provided?

I'm not leaving out anything, I'm just adding the things you left out.

Doesn't he still believe it was Cat?

We see all the horrible things happening to men also happening to women (Septa Mordane beheaded, Mirri Maaz Dur burnt, the girls hanging on that tree in the Riverlands, Talia getting a knife in her pregnat belly, Catelyn getting her throat slit, those sex workers brutalized by Joffrey, Ros riddled by arrows, the girl…

She could do worse.

I kinda imagine Victarion like Rollo in Vikings.

Woman beheaded: Septa Mordane.I would like to add that beheading is actually a fairly privileged way to go in such a setting, often reserved for people of higher standing (that the Starks use it for lowly Nightwatch deserters is framed as a sign of generosity from the Starks). The go-to-execution for commoners is…

Absolutely. They really stressed the older kid threatened by new arrival angle with Henrik's "you're my firstborn"-speech. I didn't mean to suggest that the jealousy was gender-based. Anyway it's promising to be an interesting dynamic.

This would be awesome, but so far I'm seeing more jealousy than female solidarity.

But the vikings are not just portrayed as cruel or immoral, they are also portrayed as cruel and immoral in those specific ways usually associated with the corrupting influence of civilization (eg. hypocrisy, bigotry). It's not just nature red in tooth and claw, there's also a fair level of courtly intrigue, etc. -…

And my point is that lots of "historical" movies like Braveheart and Gladiator and so on have no problem at all with inventing stuff that makes little sense for the historical period, so that's really not a particularly compelling argument for the general dearth of female characters with plot relevance in period films.

Horik is a big believer and Bjorn's supposed to have the protection of the Gods.

I think the idea is that if Luke and Vader had teamed up, they could have easily stopped all that, which is why I disagree about the irrelevance of Luke's withstanding the temptation.

Still, hers is a subplot, his is the main event. He's the one who we see getting the call to adventure and refusing it, crossing the various thresholds, going on the road of trials, being tempted off the path, getting to atone with the father, etc. Yes, it's plausible to speculate that Leia also passes through similar…

well, other people are not so defeatist.

That might be, but the confrontation between Vader and Leia was never the climax of one of the movies. I'm mainly talking about story structure here. Stars Wars is pretty much textbook Hero's Journey Monomyth formula and in that context, the chosen one is clearly Luke, not Laia.

I personally find here more compelling than Luke, granted, but point is, she's not the chosen one.

Then you might be misreading either him or me.

But Luke's the one who gets the hero's journey Campell monomyth song and dance. She's pretty awesome, granted, but I'll stick with "token team member", considering.