MAJOR SPOILER WARNING: Last week on Game of Thrones King Joffrey bit the bullet, or more like he drink it, and now someone is going to pay the price. Recently the show’s creator George R.R. Martin opened up about the big death. Peter Dinklage recently teased an unhappy ending for his character. Could Tyrion die for his alleged crime?
Following last week’s episode the series creator, George R. R. Martin spoke with Entertainment Weekly about decided to kill off the brat king:
"Oh boy, it was so long ago! Lets see, the book came out in 2000, so I guess I wrote those scenes in like 1998. I knew all along when and how Joffrey was going to die, and on what occasion. I’d been building up to it for three years through the first books. Part of it was that there’s a lot of darkness in the books. I’ve been pretty outspoken in my desire to write a story where decisions have consequences and no one is safe.”
However, with the sword hanging over everyone’s heads, Martin added that he doesn't want the story to be gloom and doom:
"But I didn’t want it to be unrelentingly bleak--I don’t think everyone would read the books if everything was just darkness and despair and people being horribly tortured and mutilated and dying. 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. In the TV show, it’s separate seasons. But Joffrey’s death was in some ways a counterweight for readers to the death of Robb and Catelyn. 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.”
With Joffrey's death, there are bound to be repercussions. Peter Dinklage has already spoken about characters upcoming rough patch, telling Access Hollywood:
“He’s trying to still juggle what he should be doing and what he wants to be doing, and if anybody out there has read the books… that sort of scenario doesn’t work out for anyone--whether it be Westeros or New York City or wherever...So that doesn’t look like that’s gonna have a happy ending, does it?”
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