Funny, it's hard to picture older Jaime. I think every artistic depiction I've seen is of Jaime in his evil glory, whereas in the books, he has much more screen time as one-handed, changed Jaime.
I liked the ONE person's arguments on the Westeros forum, but a lot of people there just annoy me by repeating, over and over again, "Jaime will never change" when it's so obvious that HE HAS. Argh!
I have to say, it's gotten a lot better since AFfC, though. Jaime, being the most obvious hero of that book, seems to have won a lot of people over, or at least softened their POVs.
Yeah, there's always those stubborn "No one ever changes! They're all exactly as they were presented in their first appearance in the first book!" people. But they're easy to ignore. At least the "if you like Jaime, you're a serial killer lover" type comments are dying down.
I actually enjoy that forum more for the threads that pick apart the books and find all the little subtle bits of foreshadowing and interesting clues and all the fun stuff that Martin weaves in that makes the books so incredibly re-readable. After Spike fandom, I'm pretty bored by the moral arguments. (Which is also why Veronica Mars fandom is boring me. I'm in it for Logan, and if I can argue in favor of a murderous vampire and an incestuous child-crippler, I hardly think "but he's rich and arrogant!" is a worthy reason to condemn a character!)
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Date: 2006-10-05 05:24 pm (UTC)I liked the ONE person's arguments on the Westeros forum, but a lot of people there just annoy me by repeating, over and over again, "Jaime will never change" when it's so obvious that HE HAS. Argh!
I have to say, it's gotten a lot better since AFfC, though. Jaime, being the most obvious hero of that book, seems to have won a lot of people over, or at least softened their POVs.
Yeah, there's always those stubborn "No one ever changes! They're all exactly as they were presented in their first appearance in the first book!" people. But they're easy to ignore. At least the "if you like Jaime, you're a serial killer lover" type comments are dying down.
I actually enjoy that forum more for the threads that pick apart the books and find all the little subtle bits of foreshadowing and interesting clues and all the fun stuff that Martin weaves in that makes the books so incredibly re-readable. After Spike fandom, I'm pretty bored by the moral arguments. (Which is also why Veronica Mars fandom is boring me. I'm in it for Logan, and if I can argue in favor of a murderous vampire and an incestuous child-crippler, I hardly think "but he's rich and arrogant!" is a worthy reason to condemn a character!)