Yeah, exactly. The show seems to be taking Jaime in a bit of a different arc than the books.

I agree with you there ;-)

I love his ridiculothneth ;-)

Well, that's simply not true, either in the book or the show. Brienne was already safe from rape.

It has nothing to do with Brienne.

"he loses a hand trying to protect Brienne from rape."

"To start, the rape doesn't make sense from everything else we know about Jaime. "

"Does she consider rape worse than murder?"