They ruined the best relationship in the show just because they were fascinated with the awful twincest with Cersei like bad fanfiction authors and were trying way too hard to get people to feel sorry for Cersei!
In the books Jaime mentions a few times how beautiful Brienne‘s eyes are, for example: “Jaime watched her eyes. Pretty eyes, he thought, and calm.” “She does have astonishing eyes” and “ ‘Blue is a good color on you, my lady,’ Jaime observed. ‘It goes well with your eyes’ “
in the show that’s missing, but in the show sometimes Jaime looks at Brienne with great intensity (like 9:29, 11:18) and I like to think he’s mesmerized by her eyes
I’ll never understand why Game of Thrones built such incredible chemistry between two pairs of dramatically opposite characters....shocking everyone with how amazing they looked together as couples....only to throw it all away with no payoff. The final season would’ve never crashed so hard if they’d given Jaime and Brienne, and Jon and Sansa, the solid endings they deserved.
A very touching moment when Brienne sincerely called Jaime Ser, he was very surprised by this, because it had been a long time since he had been addressed so sincerely and respectfully
the scene where he spots her rowing away at riverrun kills my every time. the way he double checks to make sure no one else could spot her and pod, and then raises his golden hand so she absolutely knows it’s him (even though she might have known anyway). so achy and delicious