#i am notoriously good at picking up where plotlines are headed lmao

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i'm just going to call this got plot now

even tho no one cares so. jaime.

he is brought back into the war with sansa's comment of, "i wanted to see your sister executed. it seems i wont get the chance to," and storms off. now i know youre thinking oh well shes just saying shes not physically there for it, but everyone already knew that: she is in winterfell. so what shes saying is, based on the fact that the iron fleet just wiped the floor with dany's ass, the targaryens are about to be fucking obliterated and cersei's reign will continue.

so that leads to jaime's conflict. the story being spun (which d&d are also cultivating with their comments during inside the episode) is that jaime feels like his sister is going to win, and despite "trying" to be happy with brienne (spoiler alert: he is happy), he always goes back to cersei "like an addict". this would ultimately mean his plotline would be for literally nothing, and his character development is destroyed just like that.

now, while that seems a plausible thing for d&d to do.....i do not feel that is the case. because remember that good old "cersei, your little bro is gonna kill you" prophecy we've put on the back burner? well. surprise, bitch.

when sansa tells jaime that update, he begins to realize oh my fucking god: either dany is going to destroy millions of people in her rage, or my sister is going to win. and i dont like those odds. so despite actually loving brienne - which, he chose to stay with her in the fuckin north, yall, the reality is if he actually still "loved" cersei he would never have made this choice in the first place, and one ass beating is not going to change that monumental decision but i digress - he is making the choice to journey back to the red keep and kill cersei.

now. heres the thing. ive already mentioned d&d wants us to believe jaime is betraying us. and there is a second red herring that is going to add fuel to that flame: arya.

shes heading back south with the hound, under the guise of she has someone to kill. now we already know gregor is on her list, but obvious clegane bowl 2k19 is happening (and she must know that too), so who does that leave? miss cersei ass bitch. and we already know arya has been the hero slaying the dragon in the episode prior, so naturally, we are going to be inclined to believe that is where her arc is headed.

d&d also said during the previous inside the episode that they wrote arya's plotline in a way that we forgot about what she was doing and that's why the resolution was so dramatic, because she came out of absolutely fucking nowhere. so now, they obviously can't do that again, and they know that they can't.

so they also know because of that expectation of arya being the unsuspecting hero, all eyes will be on her throughout the final battle so the narrative doesnt get the drop on us again. we will expect her to destroy cersei as she creeps her way through the red keep. and she will get there, at the pivotal moment, with cersei at the edge of her blade - and jaime lounging luxouriously in the background, presumed by arya to be a double crosser (we'll come back to this shortly...).

but somehow....cersei will get the better of her. either through some trick, or arya's death (because honestly, what could stop arya besides the god of death?), because we cannot have the same hero twice (which we know d&d says they do, as thats what they said they did with jon's intentionally useless actions at the climax of the last episode lmao).

but just when we think all hope is lost.......jaime. fucking. shanks. that. bitch.

wait whaaaaat

yes, jaime will indeed return to king's landing under the guise of loving his sister once again. he will seduce his way into her nest, perhaps feign joy over their son the future king of the realm. he and yuron will have some words - perhaps come to blows - and he will be present for arya's bitter defeat. but. he will fulfill his destiny and kill that bloody bitch - and perhaps he will also die in the process.

now, i know we all want to think dany, jon, or tyrion could ultimately also kill cersei, as they all have motivations to do so. but. i believe their plotlines are much, MUCH more tangled up in what is happening between the succession shennanigans. the battle for them will be spent in tensions with one another, dany fighting madness and rage and fear of jon that will come to a head in some drastic way; jon will be not only physically fighting but dealing with what his role in the kingdom is and if he is willing to be a ruler, his view of that position shifting as he watches dany burn her people alive; and tyrion will be mediating the two as best he can along with staying alive at the bare minimum. im not confident they will ever meet face to face with cersei again.

and yes, i could be wrong, but what a waste of jaime's character would it be to have him want cersei again!!! and what good will his presence do?!?! cersei has made up her mind to go to war, his words would do nothing to stop it. he cannot fight in an impactful way, and he knows he can't. and he has NO interest in being king much less a leader, hes made that clear time and again. so i think itd be a complete disservice to what d&d has committed us to emotionally to completely obliterate all of that for, what.....this weird incestuous love.....thing??? (besides, jaime's redemption is almost 100% due to d&d, and they are way too narcissistic to blow the one thing they've done right lmao (or are they?).)

no...this is jaime's task. the kingslayer and the queenfucker. he ended the targaryen reign and began the lannister reign, and now he will end the lannister reign and begin the targaryen reign, this is his destiny, and i believe he already knows that.