Although Cersei Lannister cannot seem to catch a break and her house members are starting to drop like flies, she really did bring most of these deaths on herself. She is the one who decided it would be a great idea to fall in romantic love with her twin, Jaime Lannister, and secretly procreate with him. While Tommen and Myrcella may have turned out perfectly fine, Joffrey was quite literally the devil's spawn. Cersei brought him into the world and enabled him, allowing him to terrorize everyone as he pleased. She once told him "Everyone who isn't us is an enemy," and Joff really seemed to take that to heart as he went around killing all those who even dared to look at him the wrong way.
Though Joffrey was incredibly selfish, Queen Cersei is arguably even more selfish. Cersei always wanted to be queen, as we saw in the flashback scene at the beginning of the fifth season premiere. Being in charge is all she has really ever cared about. She has done her best to make miserable the lives of all who oppose her. She even threw her own brother, Tyrion, in jail and put him on trial for the murder of Joffrey without any true evidence due to her hatred of him. Now, due to her jealousy, she is targeting Margaery Tyrell. Margaery is set to marry Tommen when he is of age, which means that she will be the new queen. Queen Cersei is none too pleased about this arrangement, so she is going to try to find a way to have Margaery thrown off the royal train via treacherous accusations of treason. In case you are wondering where this is in the tv series, it isn't quite there yet; however, the books have outlined that plot and the tv series seems to be leading to that direction (proven by the flashback in the beginning of the season five premiere).
Although we may be feeling a little bit (but not a whole lot) of pity for Cersei at the moment, the Lannisters are still getting targets painted on their backs, and we hope that they paint hers next.
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