Major Spoilers Ahead For Last Night's Season 4, Episode 2 Of "Game Of Thrones"
If there's one lesson to be learned from HBO's "Game of Thrones," it's this - don't get married, or if you have to attend a wedding then don't be the groom.
After three seasons in which the noble, moral and thoughtful characters were the ones who usually found their heads on the chopping block, last night's "Game of Thrones" gave us what fans dub the 'Purple Wedding' and with it a minor re-balancing of the scales.
Last year's 'Red Wedding' saw people visibly distraught. Last night's death of one of TV's most despised villains - the sadistic, cruel, mad boy king Joffrey Baratheon - had the opposite effect. People took to social media to cheer the death of the character and to rightly praise young actor Jack Gleeson for his superb portrayal of a spoiled brat with unlimited power over the years.
If there's one lesson to be learned from HBO's "Game of Thrones," it's this - don't get married, or if you have to attend a wedding then don't be the groom.
After three seasons in which the noble, moral and thoughtful characters were the ones who usually found their heads on the chopping block, last night's "Game of Thrones" gave us what fans dub the 'Purple Wedding' and with it a minor re-balancing of the scales.
Last year's 'Red Wedding' saw people visibly distraught. Last night's death of one of TV's most despised villains - the sadistic, cruel, mad boy king Joffrey Baratheon - had the opposite effect. People took to social media to cheer the death of the character and to rightly praise young actor Jack Gleeson for his superb portrayal of a spoiled brat with unlimited power over the years.
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