Actually, WTF is going on with Jaime Lannister?

One of my very favorite scenes in the entirety of A Song of Ice and Fire comes near the end of A Storm of Swords as Jaime presides over his first Kingsguard meeting as Lord Commander. I know a lot of this is going to get cut out, because Oswhoever* Kettleblack, Boros Blount and Balon Swann have never been introduced.  I'm okay with that.

*As with the Manderleys, I can't be bothered to keep characters belonging to the same family separate when all their names begin with the same letter or two. And don't get me started on Harzoo.

What I was really looking forward to, though, was Jaime's confrontation with the Knight of Pansies Flowers. It's a scene where Jaime basically realizes that Loras Tyrell is a younger version of him, pre-Kingslaying.

Thing is, a lot of that has been tied up in stuff that hasn't happened in the show.


Book!Loras basically tries to kill Brienne on sight because he thinks she murdered King Renly.  Show!Loras doesn't really have that sort of hangup.  I don't think he likes her much - she did, after all, knock him into the dirt like the silly boy he is - but he certainly isn't hell-bent on baselessly punishing her for a crime she didn't commit.  This comes up during the White Tower scene, and its absence will cheapen it.

Loras isn't even in the Kingsguard yet! How the hell is that going to happen?  Tywin's only going to agree to a Tommen/Margaery marriage if Loras takes the white?  What?  Huh?  Who would go for that deal, and why, and what does Tywin get from it? See, in the books, this made a lot more sense, because Loras had two older brothers who would inherit Highgarden and carry on the Tyrell name (a burden he doesn't want in either continuity because he only has the hots for a dead man).  Loras would probably relish the chance to join the Kingsguard to get out of a marriage the Cersei, seeing how her last political marriage wound up and also how batsh*t insane she is.  But how is he going to swing that? Is another Kingsguard going to die in yet-another-randomly-invented-contrivance-to-stretch-out-the-plot (cf. basically the entirety of 4.03)?

Enough about Ser Ponce.  Jaime's not in the right place either. He turns down Casterly Rock to stay with Cersei (or implies as much to her), whereas in the books he does it because he's sick of breaking all his oaths. Nor does she spurn him.  They have a(n eventually) consensual quickie in the sept and then he rebuffs her in the White Tower. WHAT IN THE SEVEN HELLS IS GOING ON AROUND HERE WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ONE OF MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS IN ALL OF FICTION ARGLHFSHFAHSHADHDHAGHAGHAARARRHRHHGHGHGH!??!

FIX IT.

FIX IT NOW.

AND IF THIS IS A RESULT OF THE ARBITRARY 10-EPISODE SEASON FORMAT, THEN CHANGE THE DAMN FORMAT.