It's back! Game of Thrones is back!!! I am, quite predictably, very excited at this. I love it. I love all the twists and turns and the vain attempts of my friends to steer me away from the Lannisters.
Go team Stark they tell me. Team Danaerys is the way to go! One wag even decided that I should switch my allegiance to the bloody Greyjoys!
Not gonna happen. the Starks are so insufferably noble. Danaerys is good and I have a well known love of dragons, but really? Wake up woman and smell the horse blood. As for the Greyjoys. *yawn* All horn and nothing to back it up with. Theon is a simpering idiot. One who thinks he's god's gift to women.
So it is Lannister all the way for me. The vain Jamie, the wonderful Tyrion, the dreadful Tywin and even the deranged Joffrey. But mainly because of Cersei. Wonderful, loving Cersei.
Everything that woman does is for love.
Don't believe me? Have another look. She is fierce, the lion suits her well. She is all about family and there is nothing she will not do to protect them. Even when she is being unspeakably evil, she does so out of love. That she is losing control over the monster Joffrey doesn't detract from that. She never gives up on him. That she hates Tyrion for killing her mother doesn't detract from the fact that she will never see harm come to him because he is family. And she loves him. She will fight for her father's affection and will kill if it means she gets his respect. Because of love. And her relationship with her brother Jamie, doomed and incestuous as it is will never die because she loves him. A woman with Cersei's strength and guile could quite easily have never got pregnant, and even if an accident had occurred, I know she could have taken care of things and never given birth to the golden haired 'Baratheon' children.
She even loved Robert.
I think of what could have been if he had loved her back. What a team they could have made!
But I digress.
Everything she does is for love. But this does not make her weak. Far from it. Love is what makes her strong. Love is what sustains her in her battles with everyone who would underestimate her. And if and when she is brought low, it will be love, and the strength she derives from that will sustain her through the hard times.
Last night at a meeting I was told that the threat of the far right wasn't really an issue in the area I live. A white, middle aged man told me that the rise of the BNP and the EDL in my area wasn't really an issue.
At that point I started to channel Cersei. I was scathing with him and to be honest, if I could have summoned the King's Guard I would have! I was calm though. Calm and collected and spoke to him in a way that would have scared the seven out of Littlefinger and Varys.
He won't be messing with this goddess again.
For I was channeling a Queen. And a Lannister at that!
HEAR ME ROAR!
personally, i've always thought of her as a tedious, self-absorbed pity party on legs. love doesn't guide her actions - it's selfishness, a complete lack of self-control, and a misguided sense of her own self-importance. she's able to climb the political ladder, but completely unable to wield power (or even understand how it should be wielded). hell, she even aborted robert's child because of her hatred of him.
ReplyDeleteshe thinks nothing of using those around her if it's to her advantage, and has no nobility or honour in her at all. arguably, it's her own self-loathing that's at the core of her actions. it certainly isn't anything to do with love. westeros is a hard, hard place, and the only one who's ever acted in anything close to a loving manner is tyrion!
Tyrion is rightly driven by self preservation! Westeros is a hard place indeed, but her motivation is love.
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