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| Jaime Lannister is doomed to be a sad lion. |
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Jaime Lannister
Jaime Lannister has developed into one of the more interesting and complex characters in Game of Thrones. He was introduced as an amoral, smug, over-confident, self-satisfied prick, but through the story he reveals that part of that is an affectation covering a conflicted man with a code of honor he tries to cleave to even as love and irreconcilable duties pull him in different directions. His Huck Finn moment came before the show started when he violated his oath killing the Mad King for the moral aim of saving the people of King's Landing from the King's wildfire. Jaime was fleshed out further through his adventures with Brienne of Tarth. Saving her from the bear pit showed his potential when he was at his heroic best, even if he's one handed.
It's possible, I suppose, that Jaime throws his that in the Game of Thrones ring — he's the elder son of Tywin Lannister, heir to Casterly Rock and the most powerful house in Westeros. He's had a change of heart about Cersei, and it appears that as with the Mad King, he's ready to turn on the person seated on the Iron Throne in service of what he sees as a higher moral purpose. But that doesn't seem to be in keeping with his character up to this point — he's never had any interest in the throne and the responsibility it requires. He's not playing the Game.
Jaime's fate is not to win and even if there is a happy ending for his path of redemption he's been following, his redemption can only go so far. I think the best thing Jaime can hope for is to be taken of Arya's list by some means other than death, but I don't think that this is likely. His longer term prosepects, though, may not be good if the story is to have him go out of the world with the person he came into it with. Jaime kills Cersei, the Mountain kills Jaime, the Hound kills the Mountain? That could go down pretty quickly, but I think it will be very late in the series, possibly the final episode.
A summary of all original and current predictions with pointers can be found at the WBC Prediction Status page.
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