This isn’t a good take, Jaime Lannister isn’t a featherweight… Jaime is tall (guessing 6’2-6’3) and extremely strong. It would be equivalent of light-heavyweight against a heavyweight. This happens all the time in the heavyweight division in boxing. If you have to use fighting sports, this is the best example.
But even in Season 7, the actor knew he had to aim toward perhaps the most pivotal decision of Jaime Lannister’s life: his choice to leave Cersei—his companion from the womb—behind, after
Showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss explained that they put the lively Indy Rock cover version of "The Bear and the Maiden Fair" in over the ending credits, as an abrupt jump-cut immediately after Jaime Lannister's right hand is cut off, in order to intentionally create as much mood dissonance as possible, to try to make the shock the TV If Bolton's man had cut off Jaime Lannister's hand, Bolton would never have let Jaime go. Adaptation always requires cutting and streamlining. As you note in your first paragraph it would be very difficult to include the Brave Companions and the show-only sequence introduces an important character in Locke. I'm not sure it's a plot hole. Expecting a vicious battle against the Kingsguard, Ned instead found Jaime Lannister - the king's personal bodyguard - standing over the dead king, having just killed him. From Ned's viewpoint, Jaime had broken his sacred oath to the Kingsguard, killing the very man he was sworn to protect. From Jaime's viewpoint, he had a very valid (heroic
Cersei Lannister, played by Lena Heady, is the daughter of Tywin Lannister, the twin sister of Jaime Lannister, and the older sister of Tyrion Lannster.Cersei loves her brother Jaime and despises
Jaime Lannister: Were you pledged to Stannis? Brienne of Tarth: Gods, no. Jaime Lannister: Ah, Renly. Really? He wasn't fit to rule over anything more important than a 12-course meal. Brienne of Tarth: Shut your mouth. Jaime Lannister: Why? I lived with him at court since he was a boy, don't forget. c4aLXm.
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