04-17-2012, 10:39 PM
Shinigami Wrote:Sorry Jakensama Cersei is not sympathetic at worst she is deplorable at best she is pathetic for the following reasons: she indulges her incestuous feelings for Jamie despite the risk they carry to her and the family she claims to love, she refuses or is incapable of exerting her power by any means other than overtly, seems to have little foresight for the consequences of her actions, enables the worst habits of her children by never acting as a mother and more a servant, limitless sense of entitlement to power and station, no concern for her subjects as regent of Westeros, emotionally bullies all those that disagree or deny her wishes, and if I continued to read the rest of the books I am sure this list would be much longer! Were I a soldier of the North I would beg Robb Stark for the privilege to dismember this horrid human being limb by limb!
I never said she was sympathetic, I said she was *more* sympathetic in the show than the books because of some of the added scenes in the show. The whole Lion in the Winterish scene with Robert was quite good at that.
Actually she gets a bit more sympathetic in the books too (as most of the characters that aren't named Geoffery do), but I didn't get what Chain did out of the character, she still deserves everything that happens to her and more.