Literally and figuratively, this Queen was less colorful on TV.
The Big Picture Game of Thrones is less colorful than its source material, A Song of Ice and Fire. This is true in a literal sense except for the Night’s Watch; practically every character is described in the books as having more varied and brighter wardrobes than they ever wore on TV. But it’s also true in a larger sense. George R. R. Martin’s writing is often celebrated for its moral complexity, but it’s also broad, sweeping, and Romantic in the classical sense.
The Robert of the books is ashamed and frightened of what marriage and “kinging” have made of him and frightened of what Cersei and Joffrey might do were they to gain power. The Robert of the show is a less troubled, more piggish brute. Left unmentioned in the show are Cersei’s threats to kill his bastard daughter if she ever comes to court, and rumors that she had two twins Robert fathered in the Lannister stronghold of Casterly Rock killed.
Martin’s Cersei is, if you’ll forgive the appeal to our current political woes, as Trumpian a villain as you’re likely to find, far more so than her son Joffrey, who was sometimes compared to The Donald. She’s a complete narcissist: entitled, self-absorbed, boastful, and self-deluded about her talents and capacity to rule. The most basic flattery convinces her to make unwise appointments and actions. Envy, impatience, greed, and anger all cloud her already impulsive judgment.
Cersei’s love for her children isn’t quite that transactional in Martin's writing. Even her enemies judge her sincerely devoted to them, though a dangerously unfit mother on account of her… well, everything. But even with them, there is that element of extension; Joffrey and his brother Tommen are tools through which Cersei can wield the power of the Iron Throne, a power she is denied on account of her sex.
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