Game Of Thrones: 14 Crazy Bits Of Foreshadowing Hidden Throughout The Series
13. Jaime Talks About Not Wanting To Be Crippled
In the second episode of the series, Tyrion is having a conversation with Jaime about the fact that Bran might actually live after falling from the tower. Yeah, remember that time Jaime literally tried to murder a child?
Jaime says to Tyrion, “Even if the boy lives, he’d be a cripple. Grotesque. Give me a good, clean death any day.”
Oh boy. Flash forward to Season 3 and beyond where Jaime has lost his hand and is now a cripple. Jaime was pretty depressed for a bit there in Season 3, and so based on this, we can imagine he was probably wishing for that good, clean death he mentioned.
Re-watching this conversation, it's pretty ironic and sad, and it's also quite obviously meant to foreshadow later events. But when this episode aired, it just seemed like a throwaway line.