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What in the world made Cersei go after Brienne? She was in rare form tonight but taking the extra food from the poor was a low blow.

*Slow clap* You know as much as I have disliked the character and have wanted him dead since season 1, I think I am going to miss him. Or I should clarify and say I am going to miss Jack's portrayal of him. Excellent job.

Actually when Stannis wife (whose name I can't remember) was talking about her daughter being sinful, was she implying that they should also set her child on fire to cleanse her soul? Looks like Ramsey wants his father's love which surprises me considering how creepy he is. Also poor Theon, he is a shell of his former self.

Finally Joffrey has gotten what he so richly deserves. I am surprised they killed him so early in the season. Took me a minute to figure that kid sitting beside Cersei was Tommen, who if I am remembering correctly wasn't seen last season? So Cersei thinks that Brienne is in-love with Jaime, hmm...interesting? I also noted that Brienne didn't contradict her or clarify that she loves him as a friend. Jaime, Loras got the last laugh on that one. I did find it interesting that Jaime mentioned that Cersei would essentially abort any child Loras got her with, brought me back to the first season when Cersei mentioned her child with Robert who became ill and died. I wonder if she had a hand in that. So I guess the special entertainment was that awful re-enactment with dwarfs, the tension during that scene was palpable. I still don't understand why Tyrion said to pay the 20 gold coins?. Well done show and congrats to Jack Gleeson who really owned this role.

*squints* Wow is that Lego Jaime missing a "hand"...or a hook?

I always find it interesting that Joffrey seems to predominantly wear Lannister colors when he is a "Baratheon" and I fall into that category of people who believe that Joffrey doesn't believe that he is Jaime's son. He truly thinks he is the rightful heir to the throne. All I can say is poor Margery, her future husband is...well...refer to the above pictures..

"Jaime" also isn't as blonde as he used to be and if I'm not mistaken he had some grey at the temples. Any speculations on why they stressed that Jaime was 40 in the episode, I've been trying to figure it out but I can't. I don't see what his age has to do with anything, but it has to mean something if it was mentioned twice.

I liked Season 1, Prince Charming long haired Jaime, then I got used to scruffy Jaime. Razor cut Jaime was a bit jarring when I first saw him but the look grew on me. He isn't the same guy from season 1. I don't think Tywin wanted to hide Jaime away, he wants Jaime to claim and rule Casterly Rock as is his birthright, however Jaime has no interest in Casterly Rock, his life unfortunately still revolves around Cersei. Tywin figured that without his sword hand he can just send Jaime off to get married, rule the rock and father the next generation of Lannisters. He didn't figure on Jaime staying in the Kingsguard sword hand or no sword hand.

I think Jaime couldn't reply to Cersei's remark because they got interrupted. I did like that he said no to Tywin, however did Tywin really disown him or does Jaime think his did. Need more Jaime/Brienne scenes. Poor Sansa, she looks so lost and forlorn. I wondered if she knew what happened to Robb, but I guess news travels fast. Don't like the cannibal men with the scarification faces, I didn't hear what they were called. Dany's dragons are getting big, I assume they are probably "teenagers" by now.

I think we are forgetting something in Jaime's arc, when Jaime killed the mad king, he was a teenager. We also can infer that at one point he wanted to be an honorable knight. Brienne represents to him what he wanted to be at one time. I think however that the course of his life was significantly altered after that one incident that labelled him the Kingslayer. Here we have this teenager who does the right thing, he breaks his oath to save a city ( and not kill his father) and the entire world turns against him and mocks him. At that point he probably just gave up on being honorable. Ned Stark walks in and there is judgement in his eyes, and to a teenage Jaime, yes killing Aerys was probably justice for the Stark brothers who he saw burned in front of his eyes. He was a teenager, at that point all of his bad deeds had yet to occur. However Jaime shouldn't have cared what Ned thought, but he probably looked up to Ned as a paragon of honor and figured if Ned judged him then the whole world would too. So he says nothing and instead goes down the twisted path he did. 1) Twincest : in a world where the Targaryens are known for sibling marriage I am not going to put too much stock in this. Unfortunately he was/is inlove with his sister 2) Pushing Bran out the window: this is probably the only thing truly I hold him accountable for..Robert would have surely killed Myrcella/Tommen if he found out the truth. I'm not adding Joffrey because well....Joffrey needs to die 3) Killing his cousin : This is Westeros, he was in jail and he saw and opportunity to escape and he took it, it wasn't a nice thing to do but I see why he did it. Jaime is changing and evolving, he may be on a path to redemption or he may just revert back to his former self.

I didn't realize that the deer Tywin was skinning was real, I assumed it was fake. I'm impressed.

I am a big Jaime fan, can't wait to see his arc in the upcoming season.