7. When Jaime Had His Hand Sliced Off
It’s very much like Game of Thrones to set something up as beautiful and flawless only to have it eventually taken away forever (or in this case, sliced off). Jaime is renowned in the show as being the best swordsman in the land (he has his fair share of competitors but we’ll just roll with what was explicitly stated), and that title is directly dependant on Jaime’s right hand, his sword hand.
So what happened to that sword hand? Well, if you haven’t seen the episode, you already know by reading this entry’s title: it was sliced right off, separated cleanly from the rest of the arm.
This single slice of the blade singlehandedly changed our view of Jaime from best swordsman in the land to mediocre swordsman forced to use his weaker hand. Other characters on the show have met a far worse fate, as we all know, but the loss of Jaime’s sword hand is still a hard pill to swallow.
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