I dunno - I think I have the opposite reactions which is to say that I love Sirius, but I don't obsess about him at all, whereas I actually had a dream the other night about Jaime's fate ;) Which of course, I promptly forgot when I woke up. But it was riveting in my dream!
Hmmmm! This is interesting - I do feel that Sirius (like a favorite LOTR character of mine) died before any of his potential could be realized (and I guess what tears my heart about him is that he's wrongly imprisoned, all the years in Azbakan, and then, just when I think "oh, OK, he's free now" in fact, he *can't* be vindicated publicly and now he's dead!) And I'm sorry to say that I think he really *is* dead.
But Jaime? I don't see his arc as over at all - because he's still got to make amends for what he did to Bran, for one thing. He's only JUST got to the point where he can wear the Kingsguard uniform without thinking it's a lie; and he's only just gotten to the point of telling Tyrion the truth, no matter what the cost. But he's got a whole lot *more* to do - I have, obviously, no idea where Martin is going with his story and I could be totally wrong about this and probably am, but the way I see it, Jaime's action in killing Aerys, though very much the right thing to do at the time, was also what kind of made the kingdom the mess it is, so I feel like he has to do something for Dany at some point... And the other thing is, of course, Bran - somehow, Jaime has to make amends for that (and I'm sure, being Martin, it'll come in a way that I totally don't expect, just as his promise to Catelyn is being fulfilled in a very strange way!)
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Date: 2004-07-30 07:15 pm (UTC)Hmmmm! This is interesting - I do feel that Sirius (like a favorite LOTR character of mine) died before any of his potential could be realized (and I guess what tears my heart about him is that he's wrongly imprisoned, all the years in Azbakan, and then, just when I think "oh, OK, he's free now" in fact, he *can't* be vindicated publicly and now he's dead!) And I'm sorry to say that I think he really *is* dead.
But Jaime? I don't see his arc as over at all - because he's still got to make amends for what he did to Bran, for one thing. He's only JUST got to the point where he can wear the Kingsguard uniform without thinking it's a lie; and he's only just gotten to the point of telling Tyrion the truth, no matter what the cost. But he's got a whole lot *more* to do - I have, obviously, no idea where Martin is going with his story and I could be totally wrong about this and probably am, but the way I see it, Jaime's action in killing Aerys, though very much the right thing to do at the time, was also what kind of made the kingdom the mess it is, so I feel like he has to do something for Dany at some point... And the other thing is, of course, Bran - somehow, Jaime has to make amends for that (and I'm sure, being Martin, it'll come in a way that I totally don't expect, just as his promise to Catelyn is being fulfilled in a very strange way!)