ejc74656 replied to your post: i would say i’m surprised…but i’m not lol
What bothered you in the ep?
mostly the way Jaime’s storyline was handled, and by extension what it means for his relationship with Brienne and what it means for Brienne’s storyline
i feel that section of the story ultimately was the most unsatisfying
everything else in this episode made sense to me from the way this show has always been written, I can see the logic and the through-line for all of the character arcs and decisions
but Jaime’s story arc is still baffling to me, that didn’t make sense
I would have much rather if they were going to have Jaime still go to King’s Landing, that he was going there to kill Cersei to try to end the war as quickly as possible because even if he had to give up Brienne and break her heart, it would have been to protect her and to go out the sort of hero that he had always wanted to be, it would have made parallel to him killing Aerys to save the citizens of King’s Landing to have him kill another monarch to save the city
I can at least made logic of that if that’s the plot they went with, I still wouldn’t have been happy with how that Jaime and Brienne situation went out but at least it meant that Jaime left for a good reason and not just because he was a bastard who loved Cersei all along and Brienne was just a rebound
so yeah, Jaime’s storyline is an illogical mess and that bothers me that’s where they chose to end it, especially because at least everything else this season had logical through-lines that I could see that the show itself had built, but the Jaime stuff just doesn’t make sense to me and it is disappointing
