Game of Thrones: 10 Things That Make No Sense About Cersei Lannister

Cersei Lannister is one of the most compelling villains in TV history, but here are 10 things that make no sense about her.

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Cersei Lannister may be one of the best villains to ever appear on series television. She was focused, driven, and yet showed that she cared at least for a handful of people. She was strong and didn’t take crap from anyone.

While she, as portrayed by actress Lena Headey, was a joy to watch for eight seasons, her character didn’t always make decisions that made sense for the character that the show was trying to develop. It’s hard to argue with a script or the HBO machine but, even through Headey’s phenomenal, and often overlooked, performance, there are some aspects of Cersei that still don’t make sense.

10 Allying With Euron

Of course Cersei thought she needed ships to protect her claim to the throne but, as the ships were hardly used and not terribly effective, it’s hard to come to terms with Cersei making any promise of marriage to Euron Greyjoy.

After the death of King Robert, Cersei fights tooth and nail to keep from having to marry Loras Tyrell as her father, Tywin, demands. It doesn’t make sense that Cersei would promise herself to any man once her destiny is, finally, in her own hands.

9 She Let Jaime Go

It may seem extreme to have threatened Jaime’s life as he explains that he will be departing to take part in the fight against the dead, but the fact that Cersei lets Jaime walk away doesn’t make sense. It may not have made sense for her to have him killed, but the fact that she doesn’t have him seized and imprisoned is strange.

By this point in the series, Jaime is literally all Cersei has in the world. No matter what he says, he’s the person she’s fighting to protect, as all her children are gone, and by letting him leave she should also be losing her motivation.

8 She Let Jaime Return

Again, after Jaime helps fight the Night King at Winterfell, he is able to make his way back to the Red Keep and to Cersei. Cersei has no problem letting him back into her good graces. In the last two seasons of Game of Thrones, with no children to protect, Cersei seems to be lost at sea about what she really wants and what she means to accomplish.

Jaime betrayed her and she still let him go, and the fact that she lets him return to her without any repercussions what so ever is a bit out of character, regardless of the dire straits they currently find themselves in.

7 Hating Tyrion

Cersei blamed Tyrion for the death of her mother, which is supposedly why she hates him so much. However, if Cersei, and Tyrion as well, were as fabulously strategic as they both claim to be, they would have long ago joined forces.

If Cersei and Tyrion had worked together then the odds of a true Lannister dynasty would have been greatly improved. The pair had far more in common then either of them ever had with Jaime.

6 She Died

Rocks fell and everyone died. That’s the end of Game of Thrones in a nut shell. The fact that the crumbling Red Keep is how Cersei Lannister met her end doesn’t make any sense in the slightest. She never truly faced anyone, whether on her own terms or on theirs.

After everything she fought for and survived, for her to die without getting a final word in was ridiculous. One of the most interesting villains of all time was brought down by unfortunate architecture.

5 She Didn’t Understand Tommen

For someone who claimed to only love her children and who made every bad decision in their names, it doesn’t make sense that Cersei couldn’t understand her youngest child better. In the show, after Cersei blows up the Sept with Tommen’s wife inside, the young king jumps from a window.

The fact that Cersei couldn’t anticipate Tommen being that upset about Margaery doesn’t really make her the mother she always thought she was.

4 Allowing the Faith Militant

The fact that Cersei allowed the Faith Militant to exist and infiltrate King’s Landing on her watch doesn’t make any sense. Not only does Cersei not like to share power, but the Faith Militant had been outlawed years ago because of its work against the crown.

Even though Cersei was in competition with Margaery, her son was still the king, and if she was going to do everything to keep him safe, keeping the Faith Militant away should have been one of those things.

3 Didn’t Send Help to the North

As Jaime tries to explain to his sister when she says she is not sending reinforcements North to fight the dead, either the North loses and the dead come to kill everyone, or the North succeeds and they come south to kill everyone.

Either way, not sending assistance to the North is not in the Crown’s best interest. Yet, Cersei, so interested in the preservation of what remains of her family, doesn’t send anyone, and let’s Jaime go off on his own anyway.

2 Tywin’s Control

Tywin was very rich, very smart, and very manipulative. Yet, by the time he comes to King’s Landing to play hand to his eldest grandson, he is only the most powerful person in Westeros because Cersei lets him be.

Her son is on the throne. Her brother is the Commander of the King’s Guard. She is unmarried for the first time in years. The fact that Cersei doesn’t take this moment to stand up to her father, as Tyrion eventually does, sees her regress instead of grow as a character.

1 Ruling After Tommen

After Tommen jumps from the window of the Red Keep, Cersei’s reason for going on and fighting so hard jumps from that window as well. Her motivations for the rest of the series are never as clear.

As with the wildfire she used on the Sept, it would have made mores sense to see her burn down the rest of King’s Landing than to continue ruling an ungrateful nation with no future for her family.

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