Probably not. My speculation is that First Riverrun was a surprise attack, where Jaime caught the levies unprepared as Edmure was expecting Vance and Piper to hold Jaime off at the Golden Tooth while he gathered and drilled his forces. 

In that situation, numbers aren’t hugely important – as we see at Oxcross. Armies really don’t like getting flanked or hit from the rear, and there’s lots of historical examples of much larger armies getting beaten by smaller armies who managed to attack from an unexpected direction.

Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: Sansa III, ACOK

“What is the meaning of this?”

Synopsis: Sansa is summoned to Joffrey to answer for her complicity in the Battle of Oxcross. Despite the best efforts of Sandor and Ser Dontos, Sansa is beaten in front of the court before Tyrion intervenes.

SPOILER WARNING: This chapter analysis, and all following, will contain spoilers for all Song of Ice and Fire novels and Game of Thrones episodes. Caveat…

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I’m not huge into the whole “shipping” thing, but what the hey. It’s a little hard to tell what Willas’ character is like, given how little we know about him and that he’s entirely off-screen in the series. 

Sansa’s certainly into the idea of a kind and gentle husband who’ll love her and protect her, and she puts that idea onto Willas while she’s trying out the idea of being Lady of Highgarden. Whether that idea would have survived contact with reality any better than Harry the Heir did, I’m not sure.

I defer to joannalannister on this subject, but it doesn’t seem to have been a particularly close relationship on Cersei’s part, who seems to have gravitated to her father. Besides her attachment to her mother’s marriage cloak, I don’t recall Cersei ever mentioning her mother.

That’s my thinking. 

More like the media’s portrayal of an “organized psychopath.”

I don’t know – why have Tyrion bring up Tysha and then drop that like a rock?