She was never particularly interesting except for blowing up the Sept and I feel like the only reason she's still around is because they want to have two "strong" females for political correctness. I have no complaint about the actress, but the character is boring.
shareI disagree. For the last couple of season, she's one of the characters that makes me perk up and wonder what outrageous thunv they're going to do next.
Ever since Margarey married Tommen, she's been a blast!
What do you like about her?
shareAfter years of being a person whose unhappiness made her mean and bitchy, she's fully embraced her inner darkness and has blossomed into full-blown eeeeeevil!
I mean, how can you not love that?
That is an interesting way of seeing her. I just see her as bitter.
shareShe was bitter and unhappy during her marriage to Robert and her time as regent, but she's really grown out of that, as she eloquently stated to the captive Septa Unella.
Of course she still despises everyone in the world except Jamie and their incest baby, and she's still not nearly as clever as she thinks she is, but now she has the power to make absolutely everyone suffer and she's enjoying it! She's developed the strength and self-confidence of someone who's overcome their fears and is now the person they wanted to be all along, and even if that person is a godawful human being and worse monarch, and that makes her a fun character to watch on TV. It also makes her the fun Lannister at a time when Tyrion is getting less entertaining, which is a damn shame, he was always my favorite character.
I see a spoiled, privileged, bitter, emotionally stunted, and broken woman unable to maintain a stable and healthy relationship with anyone, not even her children or brother. She doesn't lash out because she's evil, she lashes out because it's her only way of interacting with others. Jamie was on a similar path until months of being captive and losing a hand humbled him. Jamie came to understand that it was his family name that made him something, nothing of his own nature, and that's when Jamie started to become interesting. Jamie was able to see the value in others and in relationships. Cersei was not humbled and only became more embittered by her experience in prison. I would liken her to Charles Foster Kane, himself born into privilege, his life spent satisfying selfish desires, refusing to compromise, lashing out at others including friends and loved ones. The film Citizen Kane is a masterpiece but the character CF Kane is not interesting to me in the slightest.
On a side note, I do not blame anyone for finding Cersei interesting but am just explaining why I do not.
True. Cersei could have been humbled by her experience with The Sparrow (since she brought all of that on herself by thinking that she was above everyone) but if anything it only made her worse. I had hoped that she would take out The Sparrow and his followers, but I wanted her to do the right thing by Margaery and Loras and their father by letting them sail away from King's Landing (with nothing but their lives). If she had done that, I could have felt something for her. The way she treated Jamie was inexcusable as well. I am looking forward to her finally getting her comeuppance ,(but I expect to be disappointed).
shareI am still awestruck by the way Cersei dealt with the damn Sparrows, and Margarey as well. The Big Bang was both her apotheosis as a villainess, and the beginning of the end for her, and Tommen's reaction humanized her the way no act of mercy ever could.
She set herself on a course of disaster on that day, she can never be redeemed, either in practical or spiritual terms. She's made an enemy of everyone who lost a friend or relative that day, and in terms of primitive instinctual emotional reactions - she brought a curse on herself. She can never be forgiven, she can only sail the course she set for herself, and if the course is towards an inevitable doom then she's damn well going to go down fighting.
Which makes her an AWESOME over-the-top TV villainess! I just hope she ends with another bang, and not a whimper.
Cersei is so flawed I can't see her as the "winner" in GOT. People would only follower her if there were no other choice.
shareYour observations are spot-on. I also don’t find her interesting but it would definitely be satisfying to see her get what she has coming.
shareI can't wait for 'The Battle of the Up the Duff Queens' in season eight!
I am more interested in how it will end for Cersei. My guess is she will be killed by Ellaria Sand(revenge) or Euron Greyjoy(betray) or childbirth.
shareHer zombie protector, is my prediction.
shareA good prediction, McQualude. It reminds what happened during the battle of the blackwater: they were losing and Cercei intended the royal executioner to kill her and all the others women rather than let the enemy capture and rape them.
shareExactly !!! She's so certain that The Mountain "works" for her, but I think he will truly be Qyburn's creation and she will remember Tywin's words once more: "You are not as smart as you think you are !" Either that, or childbirth.
shareI doubt it will be Ellaria, because Indira Varma has said that she is no longer on the show. They could change actresses, of course, but in this particular case I don't think so.
I like the idea of Euron, though. That would be interesting.
Although, I'm still holding out for Jamie. We know he's willing and able to kill a king for ordering done what Cersei actually did. And it would be the ultimate coup for her, because I think she's convinced he'll come back to her. For him to kill her would be amazing irony.
I just hope that when Cersei is on her death bed, we get this predictable exchange of words:
"Give her some milk of the poppy."
and her response:
"I don't want milk of the poppy."