somniloquence

Ah! Ah! Flaily hands!! OK, this makes me really happy. There's this thing I have called reverse corruption -- Merry coined the phrase, and it identified a trope that I am really quite crazy about. It's when someone who's bad gets "corrupted" instead over to good by the love or friendship of someone good. So maybe even without knowing what was going to happen, I saw that undercurrent of reverse corruption in the two of them on their journey.

I'm so glad to know there's more coming up, too -- although, crap, I'm going to be in Boston and the UK for the next few weeks, so I won't get to see them until I get back. Waaaahhh.

That actually helps me a lot, about him being estranged from Tywin and Cersei -- I hate them both, just hate them, and I had this bad feeling he might go back and then let himself get put under Tywin's thumb again, the way the other two children backed down last week and let him force them to do things they don't want. And I just hate how she treats others, and was fearing that he would reject Brienne because of Cersei's cruelty. (And OK, I know I'm a weirdo, but incest between opposite sex siblings has never bothered me, one of my favorite movies from the '80s is about that). But with what you've said about how and why he became that way, I can make sense of out it, where I couldn't before (I think sometimes the showrunners and the writers are not that great at conveying deeper meanings, letting the actors do all the heavy lifting).

Killa once told me that there were a couple female characters who might change how I felt about the show/books coming up, and I wasn't too sure I believed her, but yeah, Brienne has changed a lot. I wish it could just be the Brienne and Jaime / Arya and that guy from last season who talked in the weird second person-third person hybrid (does he ever come back? God, I loved him!) / Dany and the dragons and her hot ginger advisor show. I would be content with that. Or just have Jaime and Brienne go around the land as the Lady Knight and the One Handed Knight, fighting crime. That's a show I'd watch!