Regardless no one would alienate themselves so much if they did not have someone powerful backing them. You could not turn against the Starks, effectively antagonizing the entire north particularly given the current political climate, if you did not have someone powerful nearby backing you. Granted it could be some other faction but no one other than the Lannisters really wanted Rob Stark out of the way right now. It was in the best interests of everyone else to play the two of them off of each other. This is political suicide though.


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Edit: Caitlyn's pleas were absolutely heartrending. I think that this is the first time a show or movie has every properly conveyed to me the horror felt by a mother about to lose her child. I don't think I'll be able to rewatch that episode.
She is the one person I can really feel it for in this series. The woman never gets a break. Brandon dies and she has to marry Ned who goes to war and comes home with someone else's son, then Jon Arryn dies and they come to take Ned away, Bran gets crippled, Ned gets executed, she believes Arya is dead and Sansa is held hostage, Rob goes to war, she manages to get her hands on both Tyrion and Jaime and has to watch them walk away, her father dies, her sister is insane and now everyone dies at her brother's wedding. Sheesh, rest in peace because life was not kind to you.