Cersei Lannister being a ‘badass’.
Vulture: Why do you think he saves Brienne? He didn’t have to. Up until their capture, he was her prisoner.
I’m not sure he really knows why, but there is something about her. She has dignity, she has pure morals, and she’s someone you can trust. It’s the first time he’s been forced to have a relationship with another grown-up who he’s not related to. And that has a deeper impact on him than he would have imagined possible. He didn’t respect her at first, but he respects her now. And I think any relationship, whether romantic or friendship, the core value of that is respect. Their relationship isn’t about an attraction, but about two people meeting and in many ways seeing themselves in the other person.
Vulture: It’s his first normal, healthy relationship.
Absolutely.

i find it really amusing how while talking to people in king’s landing ned’s facial expressions range from moderately to hugely disgusted. and you can tell he’s not quite sure if he’s more disgusted with the people or the weather or himself. but that doesn’t matter anyway because the point is that he is generally disgusted with everything and he hates his life and wants to go home because what is he even doing in a such dumb hot place to begin with?
Game of Thrones scenery per episode
S01.E01 -Winter is Coming