lmao oh my god i just can’t
what if jaime hadn’t pushed bran off the tower?
what if joffrey hadn’t had an assassination attempted against bran?
nah nah it’s all catelyn’s fault
bitches barefoot in the kitchen where they belong
lol I love the what if scenarios, what if this hadn’t happened the entire war would have been stopped because wars are monocausal events that can be prevented by changing the action of one man, and everything would just be swell if only the women stayed at home, Ned and Robb never make mistakes, its all Cat’s fault for not staying at home.
the fact that all this even needs to be spelt out for people makes my brain hurt. well said, though.
Everything in this. LOLOLOL I like to take a storyline full of crisscrossing cause and effect and simplify it down to a one bullet theory because it makes for a sexier history channel expose hurhur.
Also like. I do wish shee had asked around more somehow about that tourney because Petyr’s lie is such an egregiously dumb one that can discredited by several witnesses. (master manipulator right there folks. :P) So I suppose this was a mistake in a sense. But I don’t get why this error defines Cat’s character for so many people while other characters make worse mistakes and get a pass.
She would have done that if she didn’t trust Petyr. But she did, and that’s her error, in retrospect. She thought that someone who gave up his life to be with her would not lie to her face when she has done no reasonable definition of harm to him. She doesn’t know that Tyrion would never bet against Jaime (this is a detail particular to their family dynamic, it’s not necessarily a universal), or that Petyr sent the deceitful letter to her in the first place, and she doesn’t stick around because she is not supposed to be there. Her presence is suspicious, it’s a needle’s eye that they are trying to walk a camel through. It would be useful for Ned to poke around and investigate that story since he is remaining in KL, but he was fixated on the Jon Arryn issue.
Sometimes errors compound on errors and it results in big consequences, but that doesn’t make the actors involved worth reprimand. That just seems to me like saying that whenever results aren’t good, someone has to be blamed, and that’s just not very realistic. IMO Catelyn was the “wrong” character to do this kind of storyline with for a lot of people because they dislike her going in to this part of the plot because of “It should have been you.” It makes people hold the characters to unrealistic standards of thought. In real life human decision-making is imperfect not SOME of the time, but MOST of the time.
(via tahnos-boyfriend)
