david on Nostr: The Starks are clearly portrayed as the protagonists from the first episode, and ...

The Starks are clearly portrayed as the protagonists from the first episode, and Jaime is an enemy to the Starks. We even watch him be mean to Jon just for fun. So we the audience know we’re expected to hate Jaime.

Later in the show we the audience love Brienne for lots of reasons. So when she comes to respect and even love him, we know we’re expected to do the same.

One character’s judgement of / reaction to another character. Very powerful narrative device.