Because of first mover advantage. 

opinions-about-tiaras:

racefortheironthrone:

The showrunners or the Northmen? 

Again, I can’t emphasize enough: give him a weapon. A ranseur, a halberd, a trident, a partisan, a pike, a bill hook, a corsqeue (bat wing or otherwise), a fouchard, a military fork, a fouchard-fork, a naginata, a nagamaki, a fukara yari, a voulge, a scythe, a bardiche, a poleaxe, a lochaber axe, a bohemian earspoon, a bec de corbin, an ox tongue, a spetum, a glaive, a guisarme, a glaive-guisarme, a glaive-quisarme-glaive, a longspear, a lucern hammer, ANYTHING. 

A log.

No, seriously, given his size and strength compared to anything else that’s going to be on the field, an ideal weapon for Wun Wun is simply a really big log. He can wield it like a baseball bat and take out like ten or twenty guys at a go in one swing.

Hell, a small tree would work. 

The showrunners or the Northmen? 

Again, I can’t emphasize enough: give him a weapon. A ranseur, a halberd, a trident, a partisan, a pike, a bill hook, a corsqeue (bat wing or otherwise), a fouchard, a military fork, a fouchard-fork, a naginata, a nagamaki, a fukara yari, a voulge, a scythe, a bardiche, a poleaxe, a lochaber axe, a bohemian earspoon, a bec de corbin, an ox tongue, a spetum, a glaive, a guisarme, a glaive-guisarme, a glaive-quisarme-glaive, a longspear, a lucern hammer, ANYTHING. 

Give him any weapon. 

turtle-paced:

racefortheironthrone:

I think both are true, although I would lean less towards Jon’s tactics being dumb and more that he didn’t actually use any because he went charging off on his own and spent the entire battle as a mere foot soldier. 

If I might add something here, the underlying problem with the decisions of both characters is the show’s persistent attitude of “noble = stupid.” Jon and Sansa both got hit with this in different ways – Sansa in being arbitrarily untrusting and needlessly manipulative, Jon in doing…what Jon did.

I second the motion. 

I don’t think that one can be laid at William’s doorstep (compared to, say, the Harrying of the North). After all, there wasn’t an Edward for another hundred years after the Conquest, so the numbering decision was made by a different dynasty. And as far as I know, William made the Confessor’s supposed decision to make him heir a part of Norman propaganda, so it wouldn’t be to William’s interest to write him out. 

After both their deaths? I think it’s much trickier than people think, and it’s not going to be a case where everyone rushes to declare for The Hidden Prince. There’s going to be a lot of Baratheon loyalists, both of the Lannisterian and anti-Lannisterian varities, the North has declared its independence (the Iron Islands too, come to think of it), and there are rival Targaryen claimants who would dispute Jon’s right even if it were known that he was definitely legitimate. 

I think both are true, although I would lean less towards Jon’s tactics being dumb and more that he didn’t actually use any because he went charging off on his own and spent the entire battle as a mere foot soldier. 

I ran out of steam when it came to writing up that campaign a while back, but the campaign ended on a dramatic cliffhanger where he discovered the location of his soul the moment that a major conspiracy was revealed, forcing him to choose between doing the right thing for the city and the right thing for himself. 

Mostly carrots, and Robert’s approach to Ned was all carrots. 

However, hitting the Darrys on the way there and the way back was definitely a stick.