That said, I fully consider this to be a thankless role. I don’t exactly like or hate Brienne either way in the books – I like the idea behind this character, but I still don’t really care for her. She’s complex and believable, sure, but she doesn’t really evolve in a particularly compelling way. Given that she’s not shown to be prone to complex emotions or deeply-ingrained character flaws, it’s hard to really make this character stand out (aside from being 7-feet tall, that is).
Gotta disagree with there. Brienne is basically Sansa, if she had the Sandor's ugliness and strength. In the books she had never killed before she hits the road with Jaime and she has all kinds of romantic notions of knights in her head. Course in the books, Jaime wasn't around all that much for the first two books, his trolling Westeros attidute that the TV series empathises is primarily derived from his interactions with Brienne. In the show that's well trodded territory by now and Brienne is more set up as the perfect way to throw his notions in his face instead. And a kickass one-woman killing machine in addition.
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When you've got a pretty-boy monkey on your back constantly calling you a puppet, you hardly want to seem like you're happy to be used. - DSakaCharanJ