re: Rewatching Season 1 of GoT...Caitlyn Stark observation

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Cersei does nothing but act impulsively and never thinks through her actions. She just got lucky with Ned and the fact that Littlefinger betrayed him. The stars just alligned for her then, but she hasn't done anything smart or calculating since then.

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I think you are wrong on levels here. I think she is absolutely a calculating woman, but as Tywin says, she is just not as clever as she thinks she is (or something very similar).

As for Cat, she easily a hatable woman. I understand where her hatred for Jon comes from but it doesn't make it right nor tolerable. Hers moves to protect her children put all of them in danger.

I honestly don't like the Starks in general. I like Jon and Arya but they are built to like and be the "heroes" that have stuck around. Robb was his father's son in that honor above all else, including the survival of their House, family, friends and bannermen. They both stupidly lowered their eyes and ran around blindly to politics hoping that honor would win out and it isn't the way it works anywhere.