Cersei on the Importance of Truth
“Someday, you’ll sit on the throne, and the truth will be what you make it.”
This scene and line is more relevant today, in a world of fake news and malleable truth, than when it premiered. There is so much bad parenting in this scene, you almost can forgive Joffrey for being literally the worst fictional human ever. “You are my darling boy and the future will be exactly as you want it” comes close, but there is just something so sinister about Cersei counselling her son on how to lie, and about the limitless nature of his power, that chills the bone.