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FWIW, I can well remember my mother being very resentful that my aunt's foster daughter was taking away "attention" from my aunt's "real"* daughter.
*that's the way my Mom told it.
So, given the culture that Cat grew up in, I don't suppose it's surprising that she behaves as she does.
I can understand not being that reasonable.
I can understand it, but I can also understand thinking your brother is the one or cutting off someone's tongue as a gesture of power. I don't like it, though, and I don't respect it. Be mad at the person that did something to you. Be mad at the missing mistress. Not at the really great kid.
He's isolated, and he's in need of a maternal figure and she was worse than an absent one--she was a negative.
I don't like or respect it, either. Big old failure on her part. I just don't hold it against her.
I can't really empathize with cutting out tongues.
When I say I understand her behaviour, I don't mean I empathise with it, because I don't at all. I totally do hold it against her. I just get why she's doing it. I also get why Bieber is cutting out tongues. And I hold that against him.
Fair enough. I do empathise with Cat, and with Sansa, and even with Cersei to some extent. I don't get Joffrey even on an analytical level.
I think he's a sociopath. . in the books it is noted that he mutilated a pregnant cat as a child.
oh really?
how much detail did they provide in the book because I don't think I can read the books.
no details, just mentioned as a past event that provoked Robert to great anger
eta: well, no detail of *that* incident. The books are super gorey on other events.
From the book. It's not pleasant (it's not described in the book, just mentioned in passing). He's the kind of kid who likes to slice open pregnant cats to see the kittens. They also allude to the fact that he tormented his siblings in some fashion (no details were given though).
Oh, and preemptive squee for True Blood! Can't wait!
Tweets for the GoT finale - v. amusing.
I have to say that when they showed the Cersei/Lancel bedroom scene - it actually took me a second to comprehend that that skinny white shape on the chair was a human being. Damn, that guy is skinny and white.