Game of Thrones TV Thread **HBO-Purists ONLY**

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2) Along similar lines, the contrast between Kingslayer and Jaime is lacking. The show never actually explained why Jaime being the Kingslayer is a bad thing, and we're left to assume the label isn't derisive. But that clashes with how the show also has characters use it derisively. There has not been enough screen time with Jaime to demonstrate that even though what he did seemed like the most reasonably just thing ever, nobody else saw it that way.

Isn't it implied that everyone else looks down on Jamie's Kingslaying actions because he was a member of the Kingsguard, and broke his oath by killing King Aerys? Especially since until the last episode apparently very few knew about King Aerys's plans to kill citizens with wildfire once Tywin started sacking the city. So it just looked like Jamie had sided with the rebels and chose to assassinate the king.

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Isn't it implied that everyone else looks down on Jamie's Kingslaying actions because he was a member of the Kingsguard, and broke his oath by killing King Aerys? Especially since until the last episode apparently very few knew about King Aerys's plans to kill citizens with wildfire once Tywin started sacking the city. So it just looked like Jamie had sided with the rebels and chose to assassinate the king.

It is implied, but the implication is also confusing. We've been told over and over again how evil the Mad King was, how he burned some Starks alive and wanted to burn everybody else, and how the heroes Robert and Ned had to save the day. It's as if Jaime would be praised for killing this Scum of the Earth

The show provides almost no ambiguity about how to interpret Aerys, so it's awkward when Jaime is considered the guilty party for putting an end to the king everybody supposedly hated, especially since Jaime's actions were pretty much exactly what Robert and Ned could have wished for.