(May 31, 2016 at 9:10 am)pocaracas Wrote: Joffrey's fucked up, yes... but I think Cersei had more to gain from Bran's death and Tyrion's involvement in that death.
That's debatable. Even if Bran lived (which seemed unlikely at the time), came out of his coma AND remembered what happened - it would still be just a word of a feverish child, against the word of a queen and her brother. Had an assassin been caught and interrogated - his confession might prove much more troublesome. Joffrey would be much more likely to disregard potential consequences, because he was just a dumb, sadistic kid, trying to play king.
And again - Cersei had more to gain from Ned Stark's death, than Joffrey, because Stark knew about illegitimacy of her children. But she agreed to let him join the Watch, where he could still potentially share this knowledge. As far as Joffrey was concerned - Ned was defeated and his claims were untrue and unsubstantiated, there was little to gain from the man's death, at this point. But he wanted to kill somebody, I guess, to show off and test his power - and we know how it played out.
Personally I'm inclined to apply Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
