badlieut

I always think of him as the kid in Batman Begins who happens to be playing (played) Joffrey.

slop101

I hope the replies were along the lines of #It'sNotThatKindOfShow

superdeluxe

#EveryoneDies

Ropes Pierre

seriously. everyone knows that the flagon with the dragon has the brew that is true.

Toonview

I will love you forever for making this reference.

DaveyJoe

Yeah, I've read the books, which is why I enjoy seeing the tv viewers try to piece things together.

Toonview

The big visual clue in the episode is

Canis Firebrand

I thought

fumanstan

A lot of people don't care to read and find the TV show more appealing It's funny, I have the first 4 books and never finished reading the first one.

Anyway, I think spoiler complaints are perfectly fine, and obviously millions of people avoided spoilers for other big events in the series so I can see why people would get upset. That said, I agree with DJariya that if people are that sensitive it avoid social media until they can see it especially for shows like this or Walking Dead where major characters can die.

beckham

So as a non-book reader, does this also spoil who was behind the plot?

Toonview

Yes, mostly.

windom

So what was the whole purpose of

slop101

I'm guessing

Osiris3657

Yes, I know all of this already. I've read the books. Also, you butchered Olenna's name.

bunkaroo

For me I'm more interested in the why than the who as far as the plot., That's something I hope to remain unspoiled on.

It does never cease to amuse me how those who read the books earlier seem to exhibit the "we were here first" kind of attitude when being flippant about spoilers.

DeputyDave

I've read some of the books, in fact I think I got just a bit beyond King Jeoffry's death, for some reason I thought it happened much closer to the Red Wedding in the books. I stopped reading them when I started watching the show because frankly I think HBO does it better. I'm not against reading, I read a couple of books a week, it's just I don't think Martin is nearly as good of a writer as he is given credit for.

I, for one, am looking forward to being surprised and shocked by the show. I can't imagine how great the Red Wedding would have been had I not known it was coming.

bunkaroo

It was great for me to not know. Same with Joffrey's death. I had no clue. This is why those of us who probably won't catch up on the books basically have to beg readers to be considerate. We'd like to have the same surprise they were able to have when they read the story.

Canis Firebrand

I can agree with this. I think spoilers happen for a couple of reasons. Part of it is because people can be dicks just because. They read the book, they know what happens, they don't care if they spoil it or they get a kick out of ruining it for people. Another group might be readers that go a little too far, but really don't mean to spoil it, because they are excited that new people are being introduced to GoT.

Even though I've read the books, I am still surprised at things in the show. Plus, I just like seeing how it translates on the screen and comparing it with what I envisioned when I was reading the book. I watched the Red Wedding episode live because I really wanted to see how it would be done on the show. During season 3, I was watching with friends and we were a few episodes behind, so I watched that episode on my own because I couldn't wait to catch up. I didn't say a thing about it even though I really wanted to talk about it.

superdeluxe

Sort of, the images were all from the TV show, I suppose you could have missed these images and not put them together.

I wouldn't click on it though if you care about
'spoilers' and not reading the books.

Nausicaa

Especially when most of them only started reading it after they heard HBO was making a show or the show had already started.

Eddie W

Wow, that just shows me how much on this show goes completely over my head. That's why I sometimes wonder if book readers get more out of it.

Nausicaa

Just don't read past the first comma of the first picture's caption - the poster says who is ultimately behind it. In fact don't read the first caption at all, the GIF is good enough. Other than that the rest could be considered speculation, but pretty clearly spells out what happened and who executed the plan while at the wedding. I'm not a book reader and despite the spoiler, I'm glad I looked. It's a testament to the level of detail and care that goes into making this show, since 99.9% of viewers I'm sure missed it, but the fact it's there if you really look for it is just awesome and why I LOVE this show.

General Zod

Nausicaa

Neil M.