As Game of Thrones’ seventh season approaches, we take a look at a star’s approach to Jaime and Cersei Lannister’s relationship.
It’s tough to say that the season 6 finale of Game of Thrones really belonged to any one character in particular, but Cersei Lannister certainly made the case nevertheless. After all, she started things off by being behind the destruction of the Sept of Baelor. Then she became Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. Not a bad episode for her, all in all. Of course, it immediately set fans to theorizing that she’d die at the hand of Jaime Lannister.
With an H/T to our sister site, Winter is Coming, actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau told The Huffington Post that it’s “too obvious” to guess that Jaime will kill Cersei. Now, there are two approaches to take to this. Coster-Waldau has filmed season 7! He probably knows way more than we all do — even with all those sweet spoilers available — about where the season will go. But, well, this could be a head-fake, trying to throw the intrepid fans off of the scent.
(We called R+L=J, after all, long, long before the show confirmed it ahead of the books.)
Admittedly, WiC notes that he said he doesn’t actually know anything, but let’s just say we don’t believe him. (Let’s just say that things might not happen until season 8. We do agree with WiC there.) Shall we take a moment to speculate what might lead to Jaime deciding to kill Cersei?
Game of Thrones speculatory fanfiction and a minor spoiler follow.
The war with Daenerys Targaryen was not going well. Even though she, the man styling himself King in the North, and Cersei had worked together to handle the threat of the Others from the north, that hadn’t stopped the fight for the Iron Throne.
One supposed that a chair made of swords was always going to be bloody.
But now, the Targaryen armies were at the gates of King’s Landing. Had anyone ever doubted that Daenerys would come for the site her ancestor had made his capital? She’d been here before, had stood in the Dragonpit built by the old Targaryens. There was no way she would have settled for anything less than the throne.
So, the red and black standards were at the gates, and Cersei revealed her plan — the same one the old Mad King had had.
“Burn the — ”
Cersei didn’t finish her sentence.
And Jaime Lannister became the Queenslayer along with the Kingslayer.
This time, they didn’t find him sitting on the Iron Throne. He’d had enough of that.
Sure, it’s a bit obvious, but what a way to, say, kick off a season — or even a series — finale?