Game of Thrones season 7: 5 predictions for episode 4

Season 7 (2017): Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.

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4. Jaime Lannister’s going to do some thinking

When Olenna Tyrell flat-out tells you your sister is a “monster,” it’s time to start examining your life. Jaime Lannister just had Olenna tell him all those things. (Look, I already miss Olenna, and we’ve only known she was dead for a day.)

The topic of Cersei’s relationship to Jaime came up a lot for Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in the offseason. At one point he actually talked about having “to address” that relationship. If an old woman who knows she’s going to die and has nothing to lose tells you those kinds of things, that might very well prompt some contemplation on the nature of how things will function going forward.

As yours truly speculated at the time, Euron Greyjoy has come to basically mess the Cersei-Jaime dynamic all the way up, and Cersei promises that she’ll let Euron have his “desire” once she’s secured her place on the throne. That’s marrying her, as far as we know.

So, what’s a twin brother to do? Start considering his life options? Maybe even start feeling bad about how he’s basically enabled his terrible sister, like Olenna said? We don’t see him openly talking about it too much — except maybe to Bronn, as we spotted him riding alongside Randyll Tarly before the sack of Highgarden, which I admittedly thought was going to be way more siege-like than it turned out to be back when that hit the internet. But he might be a little more conflicted than normal.

I’m not the only person who thinks this way, either, although this Twitter user focuses more on the Jaime-Tyrion relationship: