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Originally Posted by Amnorix
Frankly, this is precisely what Martin wants. He hates black/white, and wants everyone to have shades of gray. He specifically spoke out against Tolkien, where character are clearly either COMPLETELY good or COMPLETELY evil. And the concept that the "rightful king" is always a just, good and honest king who makes good laws and whom everyone loves. Martin thinks that stuff is the most ridiculous fantasy of all. 
I don't really remember Catelyn doing anything particularly unpleasant, much less evil, in the books at all, other than perhaps being less than hospitable to Jon Snow (under fairly understandable circumstances).
All she did on that score was move up the timeline of what was inevitable already. Except that she had to commit murder to do it to cover up her incest. |
Catelyn has done her share of stupid/awful things. She convinced/forced Ned to accept the position of Hand. She took Tyrion hostage without any proof of guilt, resulting in Ned being attacked and injured, and his guards being killed, as well as giving Tywin a reason to burn the Riverlands. She allowed her crazy sister to take over the entire trial situation, resulting in her entire family looking like fools. She convinced Robb to place Roose Bolton in a position of authority. She undermined Robb's authority and weakened his strategic position by releasing Jaime. Crossing over to the blatantly evil side, she currently presides as judge, jury and executioner over extremely biased trials.
Yet, she's a good guy because of who her kids are.