One more And I'm done I swear.
Game of Thrones, much like the rest of HBO's great dramas , have an over-arching theme to every episode and season. While this episode was supposed to be about honor and those with/without it, it felt more like an episode about identity.
Jon Snow being forced to question what the hell he's doing beyond the wall, Theon questioning how far he's willing to go to be respected, Arya and Tywin's tango about Ary being more than he shows and Tywin being simpler and more kind than he let's on. There's Sansa unsure of whats to come once she's preggo, Cersei unsure of what she's become and made Joffrey, Robb chasing nurses even though he knows he can't have her and trying to retain a piece of himself he knows he has to lose, the men in Qarth showing their true identities, Dany and her advisor whose name I always forget settling who they are to themselves and each other, and Caitlyn Stark teetering on the line between well natured, logical queen and the passionate woman we saw treat Jon Snow like dirt and try to kill Tyrion.
In the end, the only person who knows who he is is Jaime. Like he told his squire, "thank God I am who I am because I couldn't do anything else". Jaime is a boy raised to see himself as superior to everyone else, including lesser family, which makes killing, the thing he is good at, so easy. Funny enough, that same superiority has made him narcissistic to the point that the only life he wants to end, his own, is the one he can't.
Thats what made this episode legendary for me: that scene where Jaime killed his cousin after that deep and meaningful conversation rocked my universe. As handsome or funny or charming or beautiful as all these people are, they would kill their own family for the right cause.
That speech he gives Caitlyn about the vows knights have to take is the cherry on top of the delectable sundae that is Jaime Lannister.
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Realo won gold at the Sex Olympics with a BROKEN FRIGGIN NECK.-Voltch