HBO - Game of Thrones SPOILERS INSIDE. you have been warned

[Zirak]

I enjoy three dimensional characters. Very few people in the real world are just pure good or evil and while I do enjoy pure good and evil characters in fiction I also enjoy more well rounded and realistic characters. However, just as in the real world, having something in your background or circumstances that pushes you to evil acts does not absolve you of having done those acts. If you push a kid out the window of a tower in an attempt to kill him and then plot to have him assassinated upon discovery that the fall only put him into a coma then you have to pay the consequences of those evil acts - hello Jaime and Cersie. Now a character may be able to atone for evil in their past through future actions and I think Jaime may be on this road and he is being made to pay for past crimes. Cersie however is an evil, calculating bitch with no remorse for any of the pain and suffering she has inflicted on those around her in her attempt to seize and hold power.