While we wait for news about Season 8, allow me to go on a rambling about one of the best scenes of season 7: Olenna Tyrell's final scene with Jaimie Lannister.
We all know how badass that scene is, but I want to point out two smaller details. First of all, when Jaimie meets her, Olenna almost immediately says, in an exasperated, almost mocking tone, "And now the rains weep o'er our halls", kinda like to say "yeah, we get it, it's your catchphrase, yadda yadda yadda, you won, get over it", thus robbing Jaimie of a chance for a sneaky remark about it.
Then, almost immediately, she taunts him about Joffrey, talking about the name of the sword.... "He really was a cunt, wasn't he?" (spoiler: yes, he was
) well, I remember in the heat of the first viewing, thinking "tell him!!! tell him!!!", but it took a while. Then I realized why.... ever wanted to say something important or nice, a leadup maybe to offer a present to a person at the right moment and not just suddenly ("hey, btw, I have a present for you"), and failing to find the proper moment, at least for a while? of course, because that's what happens in real life, perfect catcphrases and comebacks are for movies.
And well, even if Olenna is a TV character, the writers built this indecision into her speech. If you pay attention, she had already decided to tell Jaimie, and she was waiting for the perfect moment to tell him, and failed some times.
"He really was a cunt, wasn't he?" was to lead Jaimie to admit what a dipshit of a son he had, so that maybe she could tell him "Well, then you'll partially forgive me for taking him out".
She asked more than once "how will it happen? with that sword?", if Jaimie would have beheaded her, she probably would have said "Well, how poetic, the sword of Joffrey kills the woman who poisoned him".
When she asked if there was pain in the poison for her, it was probably out of self concern, but maybe she would have pointed out again that she'd got the same fate as the king she killed.
Only when Jaimie told her the poison was painless, she found the right words and the right moment to finally tell him what she wanted to tell him the moment he entered the room. Just like it takes a lot of time for us to find the proper moment and words to say important things we want to say. And boy, what a memorable moment it was. People will remember the wonderful, final line, "Tell Cersei. I want her to know it was me", but the entire scene was amazingly written and acted.
Olenna was the one defeated and about to be killed, and she was the one who "won" the confrontation. Impressive. The Queen of Thorns is a badass motherfucker and she went out the same way she lived, in total and utter badassery