SPOILERS ON SPOILERS ALERT
Spoiler outrage? ... No that's just Joffrey choking.
For the dedicated Game of Thrones fan, going online when you haven't yet seen the most recent episode is always fraught with danger.
It's very easy to be spoiled, particularly by some of the more smug readers of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, who seem amazed that anyone could not have the decency to read the books first.
The reason Joffrey's wedding is commonly known as the Purple Wedding.
But now it seems the man himself is doing some spoiling – for both TV and book fans.
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The second episode of series four, The Lion and the Rose (aka the Purple Wedding), featured the long-awaited wedding of King Joffrey and Margaery Tyrell – and the even more long-awaited death of Joffrey.
His demise, following the ingestion of some sort of poison, stunned the TV watching fans, and started a wave of conspiracy theories about whodunit.
Prime suspect ... Olenna Redwyne-Tyrell talking to Sansa during the infamous Purple Wedding.
Tyrion was immediately accused of the crime and seized, but nobody believes it could be their favourite Lannister.
In an upcoming interview with Rolling Stone magazine, George R.R. Martin has spilled the beans – saying "the conclusion that the careful reader draws is that Joffrey was killed by the Queen of Thorns, using poison from Sansa's hair net".
Viewers of the TV episode certainly zoomed in on Olenna Tyrell, Margaery's grandmother, as a prime suspect, and book readers would no doubt be proud of themselves for having already pieced together another one of Martin's multi-layered jigsaw puzzles.
Author George R.R. Martin.
But in the Rolling Stone interview, Martin also says this about Joffrey's murder:
"I make no promises, because I have two more books to write, and I may have more surprises to reveal."
This suggests a more complicated motivation for the crime, and potentially different culprits.
Like any good whodunit, there is no shortage of suspects: apart from Olenna, Sansa, Margaery and Cersei were all near him before he died. Oberyn Martell of Dorne wants revenge on the Lannisters for the death of his sister Elia years before. Varys the spymaster does everything he does for the security of the realm – he could have decided Joffrey was too wild. And you couldn't put anything past Tywin Lannister.
This means perhaps book readers may have a surprise in store for them after all.
Source : http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/box-seat/game-of-thrones-shock-spoiler-has-george-rr-martin-given-away-villain-20140415-36ost.html
