Infected Mushroom wrote:Baltenstein wrote:
The people of KL have been shown lashing out against Joffrey for being a vicious, uncaring asshole - which guess what, he was
They have been shown lashing out against Cersei for being an entitled, incestous bitch - which guess what, she was
They have been shown trying to seek shelter from Daenerys and her Dothraki and Northman army - entirely justified, as it turns out
They have been shown to love Queen Margaery - which she was deserving of
The one thing you can blame them for is cheering for the death of Ned Stark - if you disregard the fact that they had absolutely no way of knowing what we, the audience, know and were deceived by the machinations of House Lannister and Littlefinger. For all they knew, they were witnessing the death of a traitor who had endangered the rightful king.
I feel that you're giving them too much credit. They're lashing out at nothing because they don't seem to understand ANYTHING about ANYTHING that is going on at all.
The people of King's Landing are not involved in the politics we see on the show. They're literally not allowed to be. They don't get to see the negotiations in council chambers in the Red Keep that we see. They don't get invited to the secret conversations in private courtyards.
They simply have animalistic urge to act as a big simple, unthinking crowd and pick on whoever happens to be the poor Loser of the day.
What a load of shit. The people of King's Landing have literally no power to pick on any of your precious Lannisters.
They aren't capable of comprehending any ethical system besides the fact that if you pick on a Winner he'll send army to crush you but if there's an opportunity to pick on a Loser of the Day (especially at a Winner's invitation)... then let's do it.
The mind boggles. You see a ship with one scorpion on the bow and you tell us that we should understand that it actually has a scorpion on the stern as well, even though we can all see, clear as day, that it doesn't. What we see on the screen doesn't count. But when you see people in a crowd yelling at one of your favourite characters, you take this to mean that they are just mindless animals who are bullying poor Cersei. If the show doesn't explicitly tell you that people can think and feel, you believe they can't.
They represent humanity in its most despicable form.
Bollocks do they, you're just a misanthrope.