Since pushing Missandei from the walls of King’s Landing, she knew that she was igniting an epic battle but she truly believed that she would win. All she has now is her unborn child and her place on the Iron Throne and her desire and need for power and security gets in the way of her making rational decisions, similar to Jaime. That kind of grief was channeled as rage, much like Dany. Her journey has seen her lose two children and her father. Cersei hasn’t shown her vulnerable side since her walk of shame and since then she has been stone faced and determined to keep her crown. Instead of cries of jubilation, her end was met with a long, disappointed sigh from many viewers. There wouldn’t have been any point in doing that if he knew that he was always going to return to Cersei.Ĭersei Lannister is dead. He was ousted by Cersei from King’s Landing and he joined the cause to fight for the North. It’s the only way to make sense of his betrayal of Brienne. After all she is his sister/lover/mother of his child, there was always going to be remnants of compassion for her. Perhaps Jaime took Cersei down there with the purpose of dying together. Jaime is an intelligent and savvy fighter, he knew he couldn’t get out of there alive and maybe he also knew that the catacombs would essentially be a death trap. He already had sustained life threatening injuries from Euron Greyjoy, so he knew his days were numbered. Maybe that was his intention after all, but when he found her alone and pregnant with his child surrounded by falling rubble, his love for her outweighed his hate and he felt like he had to protect her in their final moments, knowing they would die together. Many people thought that when he left Brienne of Tarth in the North to be with Cersei he was doing it because he was going to kill her. Since day one he has only ever had protecting Cersei on his mind and that blind love for her causes him to act erratically, for example, kicking a child out a window or charging at a Targaryen protected by her dragon with nothing by a sword to protect himself.
To be honest, it’s a surprise it hadn’t happened sooner. The Kingslayer has done a lot of heinous things in his time and he was always going to meet his end in this week’s episode. Jaime Lannister deserved to die, that much is true. GOT is renowned for its ability to randomly kill of big named characters you thought were in it for the long haul, but even with the resurrection of Jon Snow himself, it feels like a lot of it was all for nothing. While the latter may be the case, the story arcs of three characters in particular have not gone the way most viewers had hoped they would. While visually this episode was nothing short of astonishing, especially for a television programme, the narrative took such a sharp turn that many fans are calling this the worst episode ever, while others are saying that what happened this week was inevitable and shouldn’t have come as a surprise to anyone. She made the Night King’s attempt look pretty amateur in comparison to her vengeful, fiery destruction of King’s Landing. With major characters killed off and an entire city reduced to nothing but rubble, Daenerys Targaryen has proven to us all that she is indeed exactly like her father. As the most divisive season of Game of Thrones reaches its final ever episode, this week was undoubtedly going to carry some significant weight.
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