I need to talk about last night's Game of Thrones

[sdwolfpup]

And I need some longform space to do it.

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[darlulu]

Her scenes with Jamie this week were so beautiful. On the one hand, the show really doubled down on Jamie's obsession with Cersei, but on the OTHER hand, you cannot deny the moral and romantic tension between Jamie and Brienne, particularly that last lingering look goodbye as he let her go

I LOVED their scenes this week. I'm more of a JB hardcore shipper in the sense that I genuinely believe J and B will reunite in the not-so-distant future and have a proper romance (call me crazy, but I swear the show has sprinkled all kinds of foreshadowing that J and B, against all odds, will marry eventually and then having Jaime officially booted out of the Kingsguard a couple weeks back so he's marriageable again has only strengthened my conviction). I think the writers have been doubling down on Jaime's obsession with Cersei this season simply for irony's sake so that it's more ~shocking when he finally turns away from her. I could be way off base of course, but I just have a feeling that's why we're getting a resurgence of his feelings for her when things were def strained between them previously.

The Cersei lines in this ep were also easier for me to swallow since I believe that while Jaime was telling a version of the truth, he was also using his loathed reputation to get what he needed from Edmure. Cersei wanted Jaime to make Blackfish and the other Tullys pay, she wanted a bloody invasion to prove the Lannisters' strength whereas Brienne asked him to take Riverrun without bloodshed. And by threatening Edmure as he did, he accomplished the latter. I feel like they often have Jaime's actions speak louder than words...like when he slept with Cersei, but then snuck Tyrion out of the cell so he could escape.

Since the storyline has diverged somewhat from the books and we're venturing beyond the existing series anyway, it's been scary not knowing where we're headed and I've had to accept that maybe the writers were gonna go a different way than I'd hoped. Going into 608, I told myself that if the JB scene was short and perfunctory and lacking any romantic overtones, I would just have to accept I was most likely wrong, but then 608 came along and blew me away with its shippiness. I just don't think they would've included the bit with Bronn and Pod about how J and B find each other fuckable, Jaime's flirtatious "Lady Brienne", Brienne's chin trembling, and the final goodbye waves and pining gazes if they weren't going to follow up on this relationship, but I guess we'll have to wait and see. All I know is -- I will go down with this ship!

[sdwolfpup]

I would LOVE them to actually get together on the show and live happily (or as happily as you can in this world) in the end, but I just don't trust GRRM that it will happen. Gosh, though. GOSH. That would be WONDERFUL. I am hardcore J/B shipper enough that I cannot actually ship them with anyone else, even jokingly (like the whole Torvald/Brienne thing). Anyway, I hope your feelings are right! Heh.

I feel like they often have Jaime's actions speak louder than words

Totally agree. Which is why that last longing goodbye between them was a huge balm for me in regards to their relationship. More is coming for them, I just don't know how much more.

Also this little bit from the director is pretty encouraging, too: It’s one of the greatest love stories on television for me.

[sdwolfpup]

PLUS the director spoke extensively with the writers to get the tone right in his episodes, so clearly the love there was INTENDED.