Cersei! Oh my god, what a stupid cunt... And honestly, I did feel bad for her--she has been mistreated because of her gender, and she didn't deserve a forced marriage to Robert. But she'd still be an evil psycho bitch regardless of all that…
Well, I did feel a little sorry for her in her worry about the children (although I find it ironic that she thinks she’s such a great plotter and so brilliant a schemer, and in reality she’s a complete failure at all of that… I think Cersei is showing us the solipsism of those who play ‘the game of thrones’ – for example, I think Stannis is equally selfish in pursuing his claim no matter what the cost, even if he rationalizes it in a different way and at least he did go help the Night’s Watch – and the Tyrells are no better, either, in their scheming, as much as I enjoy the Queen of Thorns :p Ironically, it’s her monstrous selfishness and paranoia that land her in that pickle – but I don’t find her that one-dimensional in the end. Because, as you say, I see how much she wanted to be a boy and how different things would have been for her but she went one way and Asha Greyjoy, who’s in a similar predicament went another… (Anyway, I’m glad she turned out to be such a stone-cold bitch because Jaime has to get away from her! You don’t think he was planning to go rescue her at the end, do you? I so hope not …)
Genna (Lannister) Frey is awesome. We definitely need to see more of her. How lame that she's stuck with that dumbass Frey away from all the action.
Hee! I loved her. She was great with the pinching Jaime and the firmness and everything else. Awww! I love her and Kevan and Jaime’s dead uncle Gerion sounds cool too (I love how Jaime says that Joy’s a lovely girl and doesn’t deserve nasty Lady Westerling for a mum-in-law…)
They're totally going to get destroyed, and instead of justified vengeance (like you'd expect from the early books), it's going to be tragic.
I kind of fear this too, but I still hope that Dany is learning to rule and be merciful and not all the Lannisters are equally guilty of anything – especially not the children. After all, Ned Stark was a traitor to Aerys as well, and I certainly don’t think Dany’s going to end up killing Bran or Rickon or Arya or Sansa. Now, my problem is that I wonder if Tommen and Myrcella (and the other Lannister children) will be alive still when Dany gets to Westeros!
Clearly the book suffers for that.
Hmmm! I dunno – I just felt like it was such a feast of character-development for two characters (Brienne and Jaime) whom I adore so much that I loved it very much indeed and had no problems with it at all.
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Cersei
Date: 2005-11-22 11:56 am (UTC)Well, I did feel a little sorry for her in her worry about the children (although I find it ironic that she thinks she’s such a great plotter and so brilliant a schemer, and in reality she’s a complete failure at all of that… I think Cersei is showing us the solipsism of those who play ‘the game of thrones’ – for example, I think Stannis is equally selfish in pursuing his claim no matter what the cost, even if he rationalizes it in a different way and at least he did go help the Night’s Watch – and the Tyrells are no better, either, in their scheming, as much as I enjoy the Queen of Thorns :p Ironically, it’s her monstrous selfishness and paranoia that land her in that pickle – but I don’t find her that one-dimensional in the end. Because, as you say, I see how much she wanted to be a boy and how different things would have been for her but she went one way and Asha Greyjoy, who’s in a similar predicament went another… (Anyway, I’m glad she turned out to be such a stone-cold bitch because Jaime has to get away from her! You don’t think he was planning to go rescue her at the end, do you? I so hope not …)
Genna (Lannister) Frey is awesome. We definitely need to see more of her. How lame that she's stuck with that dumbass Frey away from all the action.
Hee! I loved her. She was great with the pinching Jaime and the firmness and everything else. Awww! I love her and Kevan and Jaime’s dead uncle Gerion sounds cool too (I love how Jaime says that Joy’s a lovely girl and doesn’t deserve nasty Lady Westerling for a mum-in-law…)
They're totally going to get destroyed, and instead of justified vengeance (like you'd expect from the early books), it's going to be tragic.
I kind of fear this too, but I still hope that Dany is learning to rule and be merciful and not all the Lannisters are equally guilty of anything – especially not the children. After all, Ned Stark was a traitor to Aerys as well, and I certainly don’t think Dany’s going to end up killing Bran or Rickon or Arya or Sansa. Now, my problem is that I wonder if Tommen and Myrcella (and the other Lannister children) will be alive still when Dany gets to Westeros!
Clearly the book suffers for that.
Hmmm! I dunno – I just felt like it was such a feast of character-development for two characters (Brienne and Jaime) whom I adore so much that I loved it very much indeed and had no problems with it at all.