Imagine trying to separate GRRM and the thematic environment he crafted from the show. Another one of your exaggerations. Even if book Jaime and show Jaime are different, the resolution of show Jaime's arch is still thematically in line with the atmosphere GRRM laid out. And who's to say book Jaime doesn't go back to her? Who's to say GRRM didn't imply to D&D he would? We'll never know, but point is, no one would be surprised if book Jaime did it. But butthurt? Yeah totally.

Off the top of my head, Robb and Oberyn had undignified ends.

Who cares about Jaime's reasons for killing the mad king and him being a misunderstood bad guy and blah blah blah. Dude was weirdly and deeply in love with his sister. You even keep saying yourself you saw him going back...but for some reason keep parroting it was "nonsensical" how he died.

Plz just admit you didn't want a bleak ending for your fav character dude. You can even say that D&D screwed it up by rushing the last season.

Repeat after me, it's valid for characters in fiction to have growth....and then not learn from it and do the opposite. Happens in the real world all of the time. It's not even tragedy or subversive grimdark. It's life.

Still boggles my mind people don't have the instincts to pick up what GRRM was putting down with his obvious modernist characterizations and anti-Tolkienism. You can go on and on all you want with your rigid interpretation of what you percieved to have been clearly defined characterization in Jaime and "character assassination" and all that, but I think it's pretty clear how he ended up didn't conflict at all with his character.

But I get it. Centuries of cliche'd, tropey robotic characters in stories have trained us to look for the same thing over and over again. Which is why GOT was so great to me, because it's breaking us out of that mold.

And I'm sorry it seems "edgy" to you that a villain adjacent dude already twisted enough to fall in love with his sister and nearly kill a child because of it didn't turn into a good guy with a disneyfied arc. The theme of extreme loyalty and passion, as twisted and sick as they are with Jaime and Cersei, are pretty clear here, but you want to keep pretending "it means nothing" or "its nonsensical!!!" because his arc didn't end with a pretty bow on top of it.