Game of Thrones *spoilers*

What is up with the floor in this pic?
Looks like an old floor in the midst of a refurb that suddenly needed to be in a tv series.

 

Ok, I can buy that. Thanks.

 

I know they wanted to use rushes for a natural deodorizer back then, but were there other uses?
I can't imagine using them, myself. I know I'd trip one too many times.

 

Ah yes, I didn't remember where the other mini-Joffrey's got shipped off to. It seems so long ago.

What's really eating me though is waiting to find out what Varys did with the sorcerer in the crate.

 

Even when you know something is coming, the actuality of the wedding scene was excellent.

 

What's worse is the internet sites like Mashable who had a huge spoiler up almost immediately after the first US airing (east coast). Imagine if you were in Oz where the first screening on the local TV was mid afternoon (about 5 hours after this east coast airing). Surely you could write a review without spoiling it in the headline?

 

When the show starts on the East Coast on Sunday night I log out of FB so the "trending" box doesn't spoil the episode before it even airs on the West coast (like it has with the walking dead season finales and UFC results.) I even turn off my phone until I'm done downloading and watching it. It's sad that one must result to measures such as these but it's a bi-product of the show becoming so popular.

 

SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT NOT REALLY AS THE SHOW AIRED AND BECAUSE, THE BOOKS.


“This Pie Is Dry” How Joffery Was Poisoned and by Whom – Step-by-Step, See How the Murder of the King was Carried Out

Ser Dontos is the last of the Hollards, whose house was executed by the mad King Aerys. He has no family and no friends — the perfect patsy. On Joffrey’s birthday (S2E1) Dontos showed up late. Joffrey nearly had him drowned for it, but Sansa spoke up to say it’s bad luck to kill a man on your birthday. With some coaxing by the Hound, Ser Dontos was instead demoted to court jester.​

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Ser Dontos can be seen in the background of a few court shots through Seasons 2 and 3. Recently (S4E1) he gave Sansa a necklace as “thanks” for saving his life. It has seven jewels for the seven gods. He asks she wear it with pride.​

And so she does, to Joffrey and Margarey’s wedding.​

Here’s Lady Olenna after the ceremony. Is she hiding tears at the sight of her granddaughter being married off, or is she preparing herself for what is to come?​

Lady Olenna gives sympathies to Sansa for the murder of her family. Watch carefully​

Olenna rubs Sansa’s neck, plays with her hair and finally snatches the right-most jewel on Ser Dontos’s necklace.​

Notice Olenna palming the jewel in her right hand, and Sansa’s necklace now only has six jewels. The props guys expertly ensured Sansa’s braid rests where the seventh jewel should be for the rest of the wedding. This is one of the few shots where the naked link is shown.​

Lady Olenna returns to her seat and doesn’t move for the rest of the feast. There’s an audible clink as she walks by the King’s table, making people think this is when she does the deed … but not so fast. Regicide requires patience.​

See? Where’s the king’s cup?​

Here’s Ser Dontos at the wedding, about to be pelted with fruits. Poor guy.​

Still no cup near Olenna. Naturally, it’s in the king’s hand.​

It’s not a wedding unless Joffrey humiliates his uncle. He names Tyrion his cupbearer after dumping wine on his uncle’s head and drops the cup for him to retrieve.​

It rolls to Sansa’s feet and she picks it up for her husband.​

Tyrion fills up the king’s cup and hands it back to him. At this point, it’s still not poisoned — but everyone saw Sansa (a traitor’s daughter) and Tyrion (the ‘demon monkey’) handle the king’s cup moments before he’s poisoned.​

Here’s what you missed. The dove pie arrives and Joffrey hands his cup to Margaery so he can cut it open. Margaery sets the cup not on the bride and groom’s table, but in front of her grandmother Lady Olenna.​

Joffrey says himself the pie isn’t very good. Maybe it’s because there’s a ton of dove shit on it. Maybe it’s because the Tyrells paid for the food, putting them in the position to ensure the pie would demand a drink.​

Tyrion is commanded to fetch the king’s cup. Notice it’s right in front of Olenna. Everyone’s been watching birds fly out of pastries, I wonder what Olenna’s been doing?​

Tyrion brings King Joffrey his cup and..​

The Strangler is a fast-acting poison that causes asphyxiation. Joffrey’s already dead, he just doesn’t know it yet. Ser Dontos swoops in and drags off Sansa while Tyrion is left to take the blame.​

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Before I got started writing about Game Of Thrones‘ second episode of season 4,”The Lion and The Rose,” I’d come to the conclusion that the book version was more satisfying. The umpteen courses of food couldn’t be replicated for the small screen, the dwarves jousting on pigs couldn’t either, nor could the awesomeness that pigeons flying out of a pie seemed to suggest. Somehow, it seemed tame in comparison, despite the gorgeous costuming–until tonight when I was collecting some photo stills and video media for this post and I took a quick break, leaving my office. My son, who has read all the A Song Of Ice And Fire books but only sporadically watches the HBO series, mentioned to me that he’d seen a greatly detailed pictorial of the specific scenes where Joffery got poisoned with an accompanying description that he found convincing. He isn’t easily convinced of anything but even so, I was skeptical so he pulled up the Reddit Game of Thrones – The HBO Series, A Song of Ice and Fire, and All Things GRRM.Well, heck. Leave it to someone with time enough on their hands to obsessively comb for the finest details in episode 4.02 and darned if they hadn’t found them!

SPOILER: Now, I’m not quite sure how Olenna managed to snag one of the gemstones off of Sansa’s necklace without her noticing, even though Olenna did quiet a bit of “petting” of the girl in an alleged showing of empathy for Sansa’s loss of her brother and mother. I’m also wondering how Olenna could have been so very sure that Sansa would wear that necklace to the wedding– a hell of a lot hinged on a teenage girl’s accessory choices! All that said, the pictorial argument is compelling, as is the fact that George R.R. Martin wrote the episode–so the story in his books may have been fleshed out a bit more in the TV series. Hopefully, time will tell for sure.

 

What kind of character does that kid who was pushed out of the window turn out to be? That was an interesting development that quickly gave me cause to like those people he was watching.

 

“This Pie Is Dry.” The Purple Wedding – Game Of Thrones episode 4.02 ( Cr: HBO)​

“This Pie Is Dry.” The Purple Wedding – Game Of Thrones episode 4.02 ( Cr: HBO)​

“This Pie Is Dry.” The Purple Wedding – Game Of Thrones episode 4.02 ( Cr: HBO)​

“This Pie Is Dry.” The Purple Wedding – Game Of Thrones episode 4.02 ( Cr: HBO)​

“This Pie Is Dry.” The Purple Wedding – Game Of Thrones episode 4.02 ( Cr: HBO)​

“This Pie Is Dry.” The Purple Wedding – Game Of Thrones episode 4.02 ( Cr: HBO)​

“This Pie Is Dry.” The Purple Wedding – Game Of Thrones episode 4.02 ( Cr: HBO)​

 

Long live the King!

 

Pretty cool death scene.
I just noticed--are those Cersei's nipples we catch a glimpse of in the 5th GIF down? I don't believe she's shown them otherwise.

 

Whoa, had to re-look. I thought they were Joffery's new queen's nippular area. No offense to Natalie Dormer, but I prefer Lena Headey.

And yeah, they look to've done a great job with the death scene.

 

This right here is why I am secretly in love with you…..