Will Jamie Lannister survive Lady Stoneheart ... Winds of Winter Q&A and Theories 

Do u think the hound will kill his brother out of pity instead of anger due to what the mountain has become? That would be a good redemption arc

There's no way his story can end here. If it does, it'll be more disappointing that waiting for WOW.

Catelyn swore she would never command anything of Brienne that would go against her honour. So she literally can’t ask Brienne to kill Jaime.

I think yes! Jamie still has a lot to do. I think Lady Stoneheart will give Jamie the choice of either being hanged or helping her and the Brotherhood into Riverrun so she can take revenge on the Freys in a second Red Wedding!

Og he'll definitely survive. Hopefully bri-enne realizes how bad it was to put her lot into cat and runs off with jaime since pod is in danger. Jaime still has a lot to do and is possibly the only Lannister left that can actually keep the house from crumbling apart further since Kevin is gone and cersie/Tyrion will never be able to do that.

Like killing the king to save the city, Jamie will once again be forced to chose what is more important to his honor and to serving what is Right and Good - keeping his oaths to the last letter or breaking through in some way to save lives or somehow cut short the revenge cycle....he did begin this by sending Edmure into captivity and making a truce instead of laying siege to Riverun, and forcing a peace between the Blackwoods and the Brackens.

I think Jamie is in love with what Brienne represents. She embodies everything he wanted to be as a knight when he was young. She has managed to maintain this nieve deep moral integrity despite hiw cruel people have done to her. In short she, i feel, is beginning to embody hope for him, that the true essence of what it is ment to mean to be a knight can still survive in the world they are in.

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I’ve always had this idea that Brienne kills Lady Stoneheart to save Jaime. Being that Stoneheart is part of the dead and she technically isn’t Caitlin who she swore vows to.

I really think she cares about her children, I think she does confuse them with herself to some extent, BUT HER LOVE FOR THEM AND DESIRE TO PROTECT THEM is real - and it is what turns everyone into an enemy in her mind, she thinks that no one else loves them the way she does and therefore, (big leap here, but she's a crazy lady) that means everyone else is against her kids and out to kill them, when only some are.

I think the Lady Stoneheart plot is more connected to Brienne's development than Jaime's. She might be forced to make a similar decision as Jaime and to forsake her vow to Catelyn in order to do the right thing. This would bring them closer and it might turn romantic from there on.

I don't want Jaime to end with Cersei, he needs to fight the others with Brienne by his side. Also, Jaime imagines Brienne wearing Cersei's clothes in the second paragraph of his first chapter. I feel like that was George telling us something. He hides an eretion in the tub. He dreams of her naked. He's always noting how blue her eyes are. I don't know where they are going, but I definitely think he has romantic feelings about Brienne.

I really dislike it that so many people claim that Lady Stoneheart "isn't Catelyn" any more. She wasn't corrupted by her anything supernatural. She was corrupted by having everything that matters to her destroyed, and then she was given the ability to act on that. If she had been taken prisoner and freed after seeing her last son butchered before her eyes, I think she would have done much the same.

I toy with the theory of Hound Ex Maccina: The guy tasked with hanging Pod will be Lem Lemoncloak who took the Hound's Helmet. It is indicated that Sandor having both: Giantblood and frst-Men blood, was warging both: Septon Meribald's dog as well as Littlefingers old Huntingdog in the Little Fingers, where he saw (and kissed) Sansa in Dogshape, Sansa being a warg, too, 'recognized' him in half-sleep. And he knows Brienne is trying to keep Sansa safe and he also saw that Shadrich and Mouser are sinister characters who are moving towards Sansa. I think he's going to fetch Brienne from the Brotherhood for helping him to save Sansa, and just as in the show might hang Lem. If he arrives first or after Brienne and Jaime at the brotherhood depends on the fastness of Stranger. But since Brienne has been sick for about a week, and then went to Stoneheart and to find Jaime he might already have saved arrived and saved Pod, reclaiming the Helmet. Or Lem could be rounded up by the new garrison of Harrenhall, that is led by the religious Knight that was the former admirer of Queen Rhaella, and who will recognize him as Rhaegars Squire, and thinking he commited the crimes of Rorgue in Saltpans will most likely hang him, just as (was it Thoros?) prophecied, the Hound travelling as a 'Monk' might be wellcomed with the religious knights, and do what he did in the show: taking back his helmets and his boots, the four might go downriver to find Sansa for Lady Stoneheart, and come as suprise-guests to Littlerobins Tourney. I expect they will not be able to save Sansa from abduction, but follow her to King's Landing with the next ship. Jaime might need to kill Cersei to save Sansa, who might be one of fAegons two queens.

I actually really liked the idea of Tormund crushing on Brienne. HAR!

It is ONE WAY (one setting) that he can meet an honorable end, which I think is his destiny and his goal.

My theory is we know the lannister freysare keeping a wedding and Jamie is gonna turn up with alot of men wearing frey armor to attend that wedding

The interaction between Jaime and Danearys is too good to have him die early

Zollo more likely killed by Nymeria. Arya's dream described what is definitely a Dothraki being torn apart.

Jamie does have feelings for brienne he is reported in the books to get hard at seeing her naked when they in the bath. He admires her eyes, he also loves how good she is at battle.

I think Jamie is disgusted with his sister and a relationship based on physical gratification - he thought it was more, wanted to matter more than power to Cersie... I think he is ready for a relationship based on platonic love of a comrade who shares his ideas - Brienne, who has also had any expectations she had of a relationship with a man crushed repeatedly.. _They will be the best of best friends._

I will be disappointed if The Hound and The Mountain face off. It would ruin The Hound's redemption arc, and face it, the Mountain is no longer his brother, just an animated version of parts of his old body. I think the head he has now belonged to a dwarf brought to Cersei. The Mountain is no longer human, he probably is way past remembering he had a brother, that part of him is dead, only the shell of his body sort of lives. The only way I see Sandor fighting the Mountain is to save Sansa or Arya or some other innocent from being killed by a zombie, not out of revenge. I thought Clegane Bowl was stupid, time wasted on normie fan service that should have been spent giving us a coherent ending to the story.

In Genesis, Jacob comes into the world holding his brother Esau's heel. I'm really surprised to see no one talking about that.

If Jamie and Cersei have to die together, why not at Casterly Rock? Because I can see Cersie running from KL - about 50 % chance someone talks her into running back to the old home.

I think so, he's gotta take out his sister.

Ooh u should make a non spoiler video on if you think s2 of hotd will be better than s1 of hotd and so on with s3 and beyond based on how you like the source material. Like based off what you read, will the show keep getting better or will it peak in s1 or s2

no hate to anyone thinking that brienne and jaime's relationship is only platonic but i think that is largely bc of how theyre described in the books. Brienne is an ugly woman very clearly recognized by her ugliness, while Jaime is one of the most desirable men in Westeros. Imo, a lot of people miss the obvious signs of romance because of this unwillingness to believe Jaime might be attracted to her despite her appearance.. ive always seen them as romantic bc the tropes are all there.. beauty and the beast (famousy loved by grrm), everytime they fight is written as a sex scene, jaime constantly going on about her eyes, his thoughts wandering to her the second people talk about babies close to him.. him giving her a mare that he says "is as ugly as she is" but later in her POV brienne describes the mare as a beautiful animal.. not even mentioning brienne dreaming of him fastening a cloak on her shoulders in reference to Westerosi marriage traditions! i think brienne and jaime will 100% be a thing, even if one/both of them dies at the end. I mean, their romance in the show was so weird that u can explain it away by grrm presenting it as a bullet point D&D had to follow but didnt want to, hence the oddness of the scenes. Tbh my point is that this whole thing of paying more attention to Brienne's appearance is annoying to me, especially bc the trope of "beautiful woman falls in love with ugly man" is soo common in media and widely regarded as extremely cute and romantic, why cant it be treated as such when the roles are reversed! the man got hard at the sight of her naked for God's sake 😭😭

Jamie losing his arm is about his physicality. If Cersei lost a foot nobody would know because she would hide it. Kind of ties into Jamies useless golden hand. He thinks its useless because he cannot attack or defend himself in combat. The rest of the Westeros's nobility see it as a way to maintain a presence and to show off wealth. Cersei will never have the realization Jamie had because it would have to be her tongue that she loses. Even then i believe she would be of less use than mute Ser Payne

Cat tells herself before she ever enters the Vale that her heart is Stone. It's Tyrion who helped her realize wtf is happening to them.

This is the summation of Jamie's whole arc. His heart in conflict. They make you swear and swear. This is what is going to tear Jamie apart and probably bring him full circle into the cynical a-hole he was when he pushed Bran out of the window. Cercei is a malignant narcissist who is incapable of caring about anyone except when it affects her. This goes for Jamie and her children. Pushing a seven-year-old out of a tower window is a pretty bad thing, right? I agree on Jamie and Brienne being good friends but not romantic. Neither Jamie or Brienne is fit to fight at this point. Don't forget that Brienne has a broken arm. She is not at her best.

If Stoneheart kept Oathkeeper when she let Brienne lure Jaime out, then Jaime went along knowing it's a trap. Brienne will execute Jaime There will be no trial by combat, Cersei and Jaime will be on trial simultaneously, one or both will die guilty

I honestly think he’ll survive until the end

I do think that Brienne is in love with Jaime in the end. And I hope that Jaime realises what a awful human Cersei is in the end and leaves her for good.

Only Arya and Nymeria will defeat LSH.

No offense, but you really should reread A Storm of Swords again. In the bath Jamie got aroused seeing Brienne naked, and he said that only happened with Cersei no other woman. When we went back to save her from the bear pit when she asked why, he thought of a bunch of insults but only said I dreamt of you. Sounds pretty much outside the friend zone to me.

Yes because we'll never get the ending

I honestly think that Brienne will kill LS, not Arya. Thematically, with where they are in their stories, it just makes more sense to me. LS is setting up to do something horrific (come on, not everyone at that wedding was involved in the Red Wedding, let's be honest here) just like Aerys was. Brienne had sworn oaths to Catelyn, just like Jaime to Aerys. And in the end, Brienne will be put in the same situation Jaime was during the Sack of King's Landing. And especially since she's heard Jaime's version of events, and after everything she's gone through... she'll make the same decision. I was a big fan of either Arya taking out Stoneheart or Stoneheart reviving Jon, but due to both timing and the setup (Jon's already dead at the Wall and Arya isn't done in Braavos yet, and either way a lot of travelling would need to happen to make either theory work and I don't know if there's *time* to do it well anymore)... I think it's gonna be Brienne. This could dovetail nicely, if the Jeyne being pregnant theory is true (since we know she's in the Prologue)... Brienne and Jaime getting tasked with protecting a Stark child, so in the end still upholding some of their oaths. Just the *important* ones; that being to protect the children.

George re Martin will not end the book series, he will be dead before this happens, actually I’m not even sure he will ending winds of winter before that happens

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I think Jamie is the valonqar so i think he lives at least until that point

Jaime killed Mycah the Butcher's Boy. That is all.