during season eight’s run, a few portions of stage direction from season seven’s scripts gestured in that direction—passages like when Cersei first tells Jaime she’s carrying his child: “She nods, it’s true.… Her happiness is contagious. They get another chance at family. This time with no one standing in their way.” Or when Tyrion figures out that she’s pregnant: “Tyrion sees what he sees and knows what it means. He can hardly believe it, but knows it to be true.
Some fans thought Cersei was faking her pregnancy because of the prophecy she received when she was young: that she would carry three children. But a miscarriage, obviously, would have allowed her to be pregnant once more without violating what was foretold. And as Robinson pointed out, the bookscontain a subtle but convincing foreshadowing that just that would happen: “To break her fast the queen sent to the kitchens for two boiled eggs, a loaf of bread, and a pot of honey.
Looking back, the moment when Cersei took a prominent swig of her wine in season eight seems poignant; the sour, forlorn expression on her face was inscrutable at the time, but heartbreaking in retrospect. One could argue that such subtlety mimicked what happens in the books—but making the truth more explicitly clear would likely have served the show better.
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