Why would there be anything wrong with it socially?TheFeniX wrote:Surprise wasn't my feeling. She did marry the king. The king is dead. To me, it smacks of desperation to immediately marry off the younger king to the last king's wife. Almost certainly what it is, but I felt it deserved a little more exposition considering it should be a big deal that the future Queen is more important than the king and appearances are a big deal in the 7 kingdoms. Instead we got a lot more Varys/Tyrion back and forth.
You brought up her sneaking into Tommen's room. To me it was "Hubby's dead, time to move on up" and that was the end of it: she'd now be marrying up again. The only person who seems to give a real shit is Cersei, and not because there's anything wrong with it socially, her grievances seem tied to Margery personally (or any woman after her sons) rather than "hey, why is this woman marrying another King?"
I frequently watch the show with various family, and it still surprises me a little at how bothered people can get by the medieval marriage practices in the show. If I was in a similar situation in, say, Crusader Kings wherein I found a great princess for my heir to marry and then my heir up and dies, I'd marry the same woman to my former heir's little brother (my new heir) in a heartbeat without a second thought. Why would practices like these be socially weird or unusual to the people who live in this world? For the common folk, sure, maybe (although even low-born marriages in such a medieval society would still often have an element of strategy and financial sense to them), but for the nobility it's only expected that marriages be made with strategic alliances in mind. Being a 52-year-old and marrying your 16-year-old second cousin because it makes strategic sense to do is just par for the course and not something these people would generally bat an eyelash at, unless they're deliberately trying to drum up manufactured outrage for political reasons or something.