Speaking about whether Jaime could forgive Cersei, he said: “If he can forgive her for this, I think he can forgive her for everything.
“Every time he leaves King’s Landing something horrible happens,” actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau told the New York Times in a post-finale interview.
And with that, Game of Thrones is over for another year, the finale ending with an acceptably big bang, quite literally in King’s Landing.
Like with all good Cersei plots, it was her brother’s reaction that was really interesting, Jaime watching the crowning, presumably being reminded of the Mad King whom he killed.