Did you vote for Trump too just because he sounded good without actually questioning the fact that he has zero experience?
Considering I'm Canadian, even if I wanted to, I couldn't
If you have to make ridiculous comparisions bordering on attacks on my character, how about making them remotely slightly accurate?
You know, when you blatently make one side out to be reduced to an absurd exaggeration, it doesn't make an argument for you, it just makes your argument that much weaker because you have to rely on exaggerations instead of facts.
Yeah, it's not like I put words and sentences expanding on my perspective before putting up the meme, or anything. Nope, all style, no substance
More seriously,
You have yet to give any reason WHY Sansa should be queen when in both books AND show, she has little to no actual skills that make her a good one.
Funnily enough, I wrote "the one who
could have been the Queen in the North", and not
should, for a reason. I also said:
Sure, but I would have loved a better shitty excuse, like, I dunno, Bran and Sansa officially relinquishing their right of inheritance and legitimazing Jon in their capacity as the last Starks or whatever.
Which
@Wi'se also pointed out to you: Sansa could have been made queen because she was the eldest surviving Stark and then abdicated in favor of her half-brother, Jon being King is not the problem, but
how it was done was. I also refuse to believe you can't see any problem with a female character being denied characterization and accomplishment of goals in favor of a male character, but that's neither there nor there.
But alright, you know why Sansa could (not
should) have made a good queen?
She survived King's Landing, notably because she used her refined manners to power through her abuses and came out of them looking better than her tormentors. She was also a political animal, able to pick out the most little of details, even before Littlefinger takes her under his wing. Example:
ASoS Tyrion VIII said:
She is good at this, he thought, as he watched her tell Lord Gyles that his cough was sounding better, compliment Elinor Tyrell on her gown, and question Jalabhar Xho about wedding customs in the Summer Isles. His cousin Ser Lancel had been brought down by Ser Kevan, the first time he'd left his sickbed since the battle. He looks ghastly. Lancel's hair had turned white and brittle, and he was thin as a stick. Without his father beside him holding him up, he would surely have collapsed. Yet when Sansa praised his valor and said how good it was to see him getting strong again, both Lancel and Ser Kevan beamed. She would have made Joffrey a good queen and a better wife if he'd had the sense to love her.
So no, she doesn't just act like a typical princess waif".
By contrast, as
@Hykal94 pointed out, Jon's lack of political acumen and disregard of old customs (the Night's Watch being supposed to take no part in the wars of the realm) got him stabbed. Furthermore, your argument as for why Jon should be KITN was "he's been in battle and was a leader". Okay. Let's think and speculate, or rather, let's ask the rest of the class:
What recent ruler was a great leader and fighter in war and was made King as a result? Furthermore,
how did his reign go?
See, this is a problem with the recent seasons after stopping following the books: they abandoned thematic sense in favor of what's cooler. Throughout ASOIAF and the first seasons of GOT, the theme of power comes back incessantly: what is power? What is its purpose? Who has it? And what do they do with it? Do they even deserve it? Through Ned, any of the Five "Kings", Joffrey, Daenerys, Cersei, etc., you see people in position of power either due to birth or violence, and what results or consequences it brings.
So when the show has violent psychopaths like Ramsay or Euron going "power comes from being crazy!", it diminishes, nay, trample on that theme. All the Twenty Good Men, the teleporting fleets, the blowing up the equivalent of St. Peter's Basilica (or would it be Westminster Abbey?) without consequences, they just further and further prove the showrunners no longer care anymore.
Jon as King is not as bad as those examples, but when you make him King basically the same way Robert Baratheon was and that
wasn't a good thing, you need to take a step back. I can only hope, if they go through with this completely, that they show Jon's capability doesn't solely rests on martial prowess.
Oh, I forgot, why am I even arguing this? "Themes are for eighth grade book reports" after all.
