The fate of Cersie's past pregnancies

[VampyreWraith]

A child born of Robert is a departure from the books; the writers might have changed it so that Cersei could feed a more sympathetic line of dialogue to Catelyn while consoling her.

Yeah, thats, how I saw it, I knew that scene with Catelyn wasn't in the books(though sometimes separating what happened in the books and what happened on the show can get a bit confusing, I start to think I'm imagining things lol). In the books, I believe she tells Ned about her self-induced miscarriage when he confronts her about the paternity of her living children.

Yeah, I too don't recall anyting in the show to suggest Cersei killed her baby. Since book and show part ways with an actual birth, the miscarriage in the book becomes irrelevant to the show.


And she may even have loved and grieved for the child she lost, despite Robert's parentage, just as she told Catelyn. And consistent with what she (Show Cersei) told Sansa about mothers having no choice but to love their children.

I agree Show Cersei seems more sympathetic and softer than Book Cersei.

Yep, if she didn't kill her baby and actually loved him, then she was actually being honest with Sansa.

I'm not sure where in the show(or even if) it's supposed to be implied that she killed the baby she gave birth to. It could be that whoever wrote that on that wiki page, just assumed that it was implied that Cersei killed her baby from the way the character is written in the books; and because in the books she terminated the pregnancy out of hate for Robert.

[Skydiver]

I think also....abortion is such a touchy issue that I have to think that HBO could have thought 'hey, we go with the cersei and robert's child died' aspect we can ignore the 'cersei aborted her baby' aspect' and ignore that hot button issue.

It's just like other aspects that were ignored, such as during the riot there were members of the court that were assaulted who are mentioned quite often in teh book, but that aspect was ignored in the show.

There's some content issues they don't fuss about as much, and others that they do. abortion and gang rape seem to be tweaked to possibly make the show more paletable.