SPOILERS AHEAD for Game of Thrones Season 8, Episode 5.
Jaime Lannister spent his final moments holding and comforting Cersei, the woman that meant the most to him, and the scene was a major callback to a previous episode that foreshadowed the deaths of two characters who have been with us since the beginning.
Speaking on HBO’s Inside the Episode for episode 5 of the final season of Game of Thrones, showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss discussed how Jaime’s ideal path always had an ending similar to this.
“You know, there’s a scene, several years ago, where Jaime and Bronn are talking about how they wanna go, and Jaime’s talking about dying in the arms of the woman he loves. And this is it.” Benioff explains.
Source: IGN.com Game of Thrones: How Jaime's Scene Was a Major Callback