User blog comment:Sachoras/Cersei - friend or foe?/@comment-5014364-20121221033022/@comment-5670832-20121223000833

I'm not saying that Cersei is a wonderful or caring human being. I'm just saying that she feels emotion. It's difficult trying to separate the book Cersei from the TV Cersei. TV Cersei grieved the death of her child with Robert, and only grudgingly defended the murder of Robert's bastards by Joffrey as being necessary, when she later learned of it. In the books, Cersei ordered the bastards murdered herself and aborted her child by Robert.

What is Cersei supposed to do about Joffrey? She tries to advise him, he won't listen to her. She raised him to believe that anyone not a Lannister is the enemy, but Joffrey is the true self-absorbed person that doesn't see anyone but himself. Not even Cersei registers with him. Joffrey is a lot like Cersei, except that Joffrey is weak, insecure, stupid, with no self control and sexually sadistic tendencies. I don't see her as completely blind to what Joffrey has become, it is more a question of trying to convince others that he isn't so bad, and her own refusal to admit to herself and others what a complete failure she made as a queen and a mother having raised and given birth to him as an heir.

I saw that episode of Doctor Who. The dinner scene when she was trying to kill the Doctor was really good. Christopher Eccleston was hilarious.