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Originally Posted by Victor
not Jaimie. hell, he was massively pained, and remained conflicted ever since, to take out the mad king who was in the process of burning an entire city alive. you think he is gonna turn on the women he loves?
I hadn't even thought of this possibility but Jaimie putting an end to Cersei is starting to make sense. I could see it happening for sure.
So much of his identity and self-justification, on display talking to characters close to him again and again, is build around him doing some bad things because they were necessary and a general sense that it's not easy or black and white for Jaimie Lannister.
Breaking oath and killing the Mad King to save the city and its people (I'm sure there was some Lannister family power play factor also).
Shoving a kid/Bran out of the window because of "love", or rather his family, saving his sister and their children from getting killed by the king.
Now Cersei has done similar to the mad king though not on that scale, though perhaps the total annihilation is still a possibility for her and for Jaimie to potentially stop?
A contrast could be Tyrion presenting the case that this is what Daenerys chose not to do with her dragons.... if he just... kills the Mad Queen.
.........Save the people once again brother!
Their children are all dead and can't be saved. That factor is gone and Cersei doesn't even care about keeping their incest a secret anymore.
What's basically left is the relationship to his sister as a lover.
Euron could threaten to break that apart potentially and the only other part of meaningful family that's out there for Jaimie, Tyrion is now clearcut enemy to Cersei and one who can show an alternative path^^
They're things that can cause enough small breaks in their relationship at least.
To what extent is Jaimie aware of Cersei going mad queen and killing everyone (including many Lannisters)?
She has gone down the kind of wrong path (or here very specific), that Jaimie more than once has shown himself willing to right. He is a character that eventually has done right to some extent.
I also noticed him saying no initially to having sex with Cersei the previous episode, though it still ended up happening. But a small sign of cracks there?
Last edited by Bjørn; 08-07-2017 at 02:37 PM.
Reason: he would probably die himself in the process though and they would die together fittingly