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Originally Posted by Fignuts
Yep.
Not to mention Jaime's arc seems kind of pointless. All that slowly built up redemption for him to just run back to cersei and die with her.
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i've thought about this a bit and i think jaime's redemption was always a bit of a red herring. he SEEMS like he's on the road to redemption and even occasionally acts with real valour but then again he's a knight, so that's not that special; under every apparently selfless act, the fact remains he is an infatuated, incestuous, attempted child murderer who always crumbles for his sister
i think we're so conditioned to believe tv should adhere to morally or otherwise fulfilling arcs - people atone for their sins, achieve redemption, get what's coming to them etc - so it's jarring when it fails to happen. but people are more likely to let you down than they are to fundamentally change who they are and surprise you with some grand swing to redemption. jaime deciding at the last moment that it's all too hard and he should run back to cersei is frankly perfectly apt for him as a character
likewise cersei; we feel her death was underwhelming because she was an awful person, so she should get her just desserts, right? well, yeah, but the world doesn't work like that, and sometimes evil people just end up getting crushed to death by the falling ruins of a city without any sense of poetry or ever having to appreciate the magnitude of their own awfulness /shrug