Family is everything, Tywin says. Pretty soon, they’ll all be dead, and their children will be dead, and their children’s children will be dead. The only thing that will be left is the Lannister name, and the only thing that should matter to Jaime and, by default, the other Lannister siblings, is preserving the honour of that name.

There are a few ways you could take this. Tywin is delivering this lecture to Jaime, and it is Jaime who, in the final season of Game of Thrones, has left behind his sister-love and is making his way North, to fight for the living. The tragic arc of Jaime throughout the show has been how his character’s honour was depleted after he killed the Mad King and how he has felt unfairly branded by the name Kingslayer ever since. When he loses his sword hand – the one thing that he has always been good at – it’s yet another blow to his identity.

By season eight, the Lannister name is in the mud. Any honour that they might have had is gone. If Jaime was really paying attention to Tywin’s lecture in season one, and all suggestions hint that he was, then he could finally be doing something that will bring honour to the Lannister name by travelling North to fight the White Walkers alongside Jon Snow and Daenerys. Who knows? Maybe he’ll be the one to shove a Valyrian steel sword into the Night King, and the Kingslayer will ride again. And, if the theory that Bran is the Night King comes to pass, then this entire plotline could have been foreshadowed all the way back in the pilot episode when Jamie pushed Bran out the window. Everything checks out.

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