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" Season four of HBO&amp;#039;s Game of Thrones begins exactly as the previous season did. House Lannister has defeated its most pressing enemies, and the time has come to divvy up the spoils. But unlike last season, in which Tywin Lannister had just saved King&amp;#039;s Landing in spectacular fashion, and had to argue with Tyrion over whether Tyrion&amp;#039;s contributions meant jack, this season starts with House Lannister truly victorious. The Red Wedding was no battle of the Blackwater, with Stannis Baratheon escaping to lick his wounds on Dragonstone. The King in the North is dead. Long live the King. In a scene fraught with symbolism, Tywin melts Ice, the greatsword of House Stark, to forge two new swords for his favorite son and kingly grandson. But that&amp;#039;s only the beginning of the episode. From swords being forged anew, we see a mighty bond get broken. Jaime Lannister, justifiably called the Kingslayer and a man without honor, finally sees that maybe throwing a child out of a window and breaking every oath he&amp;#039;s ever sworn does make him kind of a dick. When Tywin gives him the chance to vacate his position as Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, he refuses. When Tywin tells him it&amp;#039;s hardly a choice, that the family needs him, Jaime disowns himself, basically. For the man who once fled King&amp;#039;s Landing to fight, not for the king, but for House Lannister, this is a big leap in character.  The central conflict in King&amp;#039;s Landing on this show has always been Lannister versus Lannister. Tyrion and Cersei despise each other, Tyrion hates Tywin, and Tywin has so much disdain for his children it&amp;#039;s a wonder his eyebrows don&amp;#039;t catch fire. Jaime&amp;#039;s been spared the worst of it by being in various dungeons. But now that he&amp;#039;s back in King&amp;#039;s Landing, it seems he&amp;#039;s getting whole seasons worth of Lannister enmity heaped on him like back taxes. Cersei and Tyrion have learned that Joffrey is annoying, and if you ignore him long enough to get to a wine glass, you&amp;#039;ll be ok. Jaime hasn&amp;#039;t had to learn that lesson yet, but his one scene with Joffrey in this episode was enough to sell the point home. And just like Tyrion had to come to terms with losing the office of Hand, and his new place in the Game of Thrones, Jaime now has to do the same. Just on a more literal level, I suppose. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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