User blog comment:Looperreallyreallysucks/Pure Evil Removal - Cersei Lannister/@comment-25477716-20190916045358

She's pretty far from pure evil, either version. The Show version is arguably worse than the book version, I say arguably only because the book version is far behind. Despite that, she's still committed less atrocities than many other villains. She pales in comparison to the likes of Ramsay, Roose, Euron, and Walder Frey. In fact, she's not even as bad as her rotten ass of a son Joffrey. I don't believe that Roose and Joffrey are considered pure evil themselves. On top of that, she has genuine, if extremely twisted, love for her children, Jaime, and even Tywin and her mother. Overall, she's mostly just narcissistic and selfish 80% of the time. She's a terrible human being, but not pure evil. As for the "humiliation", in all fairness she was largely getting a small taste of the punishment she deserved, though the show ignored many of the crimes she committed in the books, including hints that she was far more involved in the extermination of Robert's bastards than she was in the show. As noted, I'm only saying the show version is worse due to the sept of baelor incident, I fully expect the book version to grow even worse, it's just the book hasn't come out yet so yeah.

One question, should we start considering seperating book and show counterparts, they're really different in most cases. For example, show Roose Bolton is nothing compared to book Roose and it may be unfair to judge the two the same.