Did the show pull it off? George R. Martin : Yeah, they pulled it off correctly; it was an amazing moment in television. Can you talk about the decision you made to end this character when you did and how you did?
Martin : Oh boy, it was so long ago! Lets see, the book came out in , so I guess I wrote those scenes in like I knew all along when and how Joffrey was going to die, and on what occasion. Every once in a while you have to give the good guys a victory — where the guys who are perhaps a lighter shade of grey have a victory over the guys who are a darker shade of grey.
The Red Wedding and this — fans call this the Purple Wedding — occur in the same book. It shows that yes, nobody is safe—sometimes the good guys win, sometimes the bad guys win. Nobody is safe and that we are playing for keeps. I also tried to provide a certain moment of pathos with the death. At the same time, in the moments leading up to that, you seem to really enjoy giving him this grand sendoff by having all these moments during his wedding where he demonstrates the character traits that make us so dislike him.
Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Video: Fans react to the Purple Wedding - "Let him choke! Let him choke! More about Game of Thrones. Already subscribed? Episode 3 of Game of Thrones season 7, 'The Queen's Justice,' ended with quite the revelation for Jaime Lannister: the full truth about Joffrey's death.
The one-handed head of the Kingsguard or is that Queensguard now? The inimitable head of the House Tyrell had been working with Daenerys Targeryen to take down the Lannisters, after Cersei murdered all her family at the end of season 6.
She delivers Jaime the truth of his son's death, brutally, after drinking up the fatal poison meant to cause her death. No doubt Jaime regretted the kindness he proffered Lady Olenna after hearing her final words to him:.
Clawing at my neck, foam and bile spilling from my mouth, eyes blood red, skin purple. It must have been horrible for you, as a Kingsguard, as a father. It was horrible enough for me, a shocking scene, not at all what I intended. You see, I'd never seen the poison work before. Tell Cersei. It is unclear, for instance, how far Margaery was involved; whether Olenna put the poison in the goblet herself, or handed it to another accomplice; who else was involved; etc.
There are various fan speculations about the scheme, among them that Garlan Tyrell was the one who put the poison in the wine: he was sitting near it, and he is the only other Tyrell who could be trusted Mace is not bright enough, and Loras is hot-headed. Another question left unclear is what Littlefinger's motive was. Apparently, there is nothing he could gain from Joffrey's death: there was no enmity between them; it is doubtful he went that far just to save Sansa, and definitely did not do that to avenge Catelyn 's death the plot has been set in motion long before the Red Wedding occurred.
Sansa asks him that question, and he says enigmatically: "Why should I wish him [Joffrey] dead? I had no motive. Besides, I am a thousand leagues away in the Vale. Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you ". Littlefinger has managed to distance himself from the murder perfectly.
Olenna and Sansa are the only ones who know about his part; neither Cersei nor anyone else suspect him even slightly. Some time later, Jaime questions the other Kingsguard members about the murder. Boros Blount and Meryn Trant are certain it was Tyrion, because he refilled the chalice twice and later spilled its contents. Balon Swann disagrees, pointing out that many of the guests and servants were moving about; when Joffrey and Margaery cut the wedding pie, every eye was on them, and no one watched the wine chalice; anyone who was on the dais among them the king's family, the bride's family, Pycelle and the High Septon could have slipped the poison.
Loras thinks it was Sansa, claiming that she was only person in the hall who had reason to want Margaery and Joffrey dead; why did she run afterward, unless she was guilty? Jaime figures Tyrion may be innocent after all, but has no way to find out the truth since Sansa escaped. He decides to leave the murder mystery unsolved, and make sure no harm happens to Tommen too. When Oberyn Martell visits Tyrion at his cell, he says amusingly: "I have much to thank your sister for.
If not for her accusation at the feast, it might well be you judging me instead of me judging you. Who knows more of poison than the Red Viper of Dorne, after all? Who has better reason to want to keep the Tyrells far from the crown? And with Joffrey in his grave, by Dornish law the Iron Throne should pass next to his sister Myrcella , who as it happens is betrothed to mine own nephew, thanks to you".
Oberyn's words imply that there have been two parallel, independent plots to murder Joffrey by poisoning. It is unknown how Oberyn sought to kill Joffrey perhaps the scorpion-shaped brooch, which he gave Joffrey at the breakfast prior to the wedding, was coated with poison ; whatever his plan was, the Tyrells have beaten him to it.
In the fourth novel, Cersei becomes annoyed as a result of Margaery's growing influence over Tommen. Suddenly she realizes the Tyrells had a strong motive to kill Joffrey: he was too stubborn to be influenced, in sharp contrast to his sweet gentle brother, so the Tyrells disposed of him in order to make Tommen a puppet king, whom Margaery could easily control.
While that conclusion is partly-correct, Cersei concludes wrongly that Tyrion was the co-conspirator; that the Tyrells helped him escape from prison by bribing the gaolers that explains, in Cersei's mind, the Tyrell coin which Qyburn found in one of the gaolers' cell ; and maybe they conspired to murder Tywin too.
Joffrey's death had been prophesied by an old woods witch , a collaborator of the Brotherhood Without Banners , known as the Ghost of High Heart: " I dreamt of a maid at a feast with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs ". When Stannis is informed about Joffrey's death, he comments " Weddings have become more perilous than battles, it would seem ".
Recalling how Joffrey once cut a pregnant cat open, Stannis states that whether Tyrion or the leech ritual was responsible for Joffrey's death - the killer has served the kingdom well.
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