(This post contains spoilers for season 8, episode 2 of “Game of Thrones”) After the way the first episode of the final season of…
(This post contains spoilers for season 8, episode 2 of “Game of Thrones”)
After the way the first episode of the final season of “Game of Thrones” ended, I kinda expected that Bran (Isaac Hempstead-Wright) would get his big one-on-one moment with Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) right at the beginning of this week’s episode, but it was not to be. But finally about ten minutes into the episode we got the big scene.
But it took some doing for Jaime to survive that long. The conversation only happened because Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie) spoke on Jaime’s behalf when Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) seemed intent on murdering him. Brienne’s endorsement swayed Sansa (Sophie Turner), and that in turn swayed Dany.
And so we finally got the confrontation we’d been waiting on since Jaime shoved Bran out a window at the end of the very first episode of “Game of Thrones.”
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It wasn’t actually much of a confrontation, though, since Bran is different now than he was back then. As the Three-Eyed Raven, Bran is divorced from his sense of self and is all about being pragmatic now. So he’s not mad at Jaime — he wants Jaime to be able to help with the war effort against the Night King and his army of the dead.
