Hats off to young Jack Gleeson. It takes a special kind of talent to create a monster so utterly believable and repulsive as the psychotic King Joffrey. His horrible death at the so-called 'Purple Wedding' is the only thing that could possibly match Oberyn's murder for sheer revulsion. It seems a real shame if the reports that Gleeson has retired from acting are true — we'd have loved to see what he did next.
It's not all blood and dragons in Game of Thrones , as this episode shows with some genuinely tender and emotional moments. From Arya's tragic isolation from Gendry, Ygritte and Jon Snow's steamy sex scene and — possibly most moving of all — Jaime's secret confession to Brienne. She was as surprised as the rest of us, and it finally showed us the side of Jaime that wasn't a murderous, incestuous A-hole. By now we're almost used to existing in a state of permanent Game of Thrones -induced uncertainty, but there was a time when we knew that Sean Bean's Ned Stark was the main character, and main characters always win out in the end.
Just thinking about the infamous 'Red Wedding' episode is enough to have us reaching for the nearest pillow, as if that could protect us from the trauma imprinted on our minds forever.
Offing poor Ned is one thing, but the sudden and wholesale slaughter of half the cast? Well played, Game of Thrones. Well played. We know the White Walkers are the real threat to Westeros, but it's easy to forget them when faced with the monstrous machinations of the Boltons, the Sparrows, the Sons of the Harpy, Cersei Lannister and the Sand Snakes who are we forgetting?
Well, maybe that was the case before, but the extended and thoroughly grim battle at Hardhome certainly served to jog our memories. She collapses, dead]. Sign In. Game of Thrones. Play trailer Action Adventure Drama. Director David Nutter. George R. Weiss written for television by. Top credits Director David Nutter.
See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Game of Thrones: The Rains of Castamere. Featurette Game of Thrones: A Safer Place. Photos Top cast Edit. Rose Leslie Ygritte as Ygritte. Mackenzie Crook Orell as Orell. David Nutter. Storyline Edit. There is considerable tension between the two families but Robb's sincere apology for not marrying one of Frey's daughters is well received.
It doesn't stop the elderly Frey from being both crude and rude towards his guests. Edmure is pleasantly surprised to see that his bride is to be Frey's prettiest granddaughter, Roslin. The festivities continue but Walder Frey has something very special planned. Arya and Sandor Clegane arrive at the Twins but too late to do anything.
Daenerys meanwhile orders the attack on Yunkai based on information provided by Daario. Brandon learns the strength of his powers. Jon Snow is forced to choose between the Watch and Ygritte. Action Adventure Drama Fantasy. Later it is revealed the Westerlings except Jeyne's brother Raynald have collaborated with the Lannisters. As author George R. Martin has repeatedly said, he refused to plot out the books down to the slightest detail before he began, and if writers can be categorized into "architects" who plan out everything in advance, or "gardeners" who assemble a general plan for where things are planted but then lets them grow on their own, Martin definitely considers himself a gardener.
Even so, he did establish a general outline which planned out the largest plot points and most important character deaths before the first novel was even published.
Like the execution of Ned Stark at the end of the first novel, Martin always planned that Robb Stark and his entire army would be killed at the Red Wedding, as it was one of the most pivotal events in the entire storyline, concluding the Stark-Lannister war while setting new plotlines into motion.
Greatjon Umber was present at the Red Wedding in the books, but Clive Mantle , who played him in Season 1, was unable to reappear for Season 2 or Season 3.
Greatjon does not die at the Red Wedding, but is taken prisoner. Several Freys enter into drinking contests with Greatjon to try to incapacitate him when the fighting started, but he drinks them all under the table, and is still able to put up a significant fight. It takes eight men to subdue Greatjon, and even so he manages to kill one assailant, seriously wound two more, and bite half the ear off another. However, Greatjon's son Smalljon Umber is decapitated by Bolton men.
The Greatjon is the only head of a noble House from the North present in the Twins at the time, which is why the Lannisters wanted him taken alive as a valuable political hostage. Robb had sent the three to treat with the crannogmen of House Reed to coordinate their plan to retake Moat Cailin from the ironborn and carry a letter naming Robb's heir - as Jeyne Westerling is not known to be pregnant at the time.
Lord Jason left the party to reinforce his home castle at Seagard. Nearly all of the Stark bannermen at the wedding were slain. It is unknown if any of the other guests were taken alive too. Another feature that was removed was that the Freys set up three tents for the Northmen.
When the signal is given the tents collapse and are set alight. Brynden Tully is not present for the wedding in the books, since Robb had him stay behind at Riverrun to command their rearguard and hold the line of the Red Fork, creating for him the title "Warden of the Southern Marches.
It is probable that the TV producers didn't want the audience to suspect that the Freys would betray Robb, which would be unlikely if the entire Stark-Tully family was present. In the books, Robb leaves Brynden and his queen at Riverrun because he is worried that the Freys will exact vengeance for breaking his betrothal, but if this had happened in the TV series it may have made their intentions too obvious.
Even so, when Robb actually arrived at the Twins, his fears disappeared when Walder Frey formally extended guest right to him, as no lord ever breaks such a sacred tradition, thus the Freys' betrayal was still a surprise. Talisa is the first to die in the episode, but her book counterpart Jeyne Westerling is also not present at the Red Wedding, having been left behind at the safety of Riverrun with Brynden.
Further, Jeyne is not pregnant in the novels; her mother Sybell Spicer makes sure of that presumably by giving her daughter Moon tea. This is one of the fantasy stereotypes that George R. Martin himself set out to deconstruct with the series, i. The TV series wanted to make it clear with the Red Wedding that Robb isn't going to live to avenge his father, nor is Robb's child going to live to avenge him. As Madden said, "I think it was important for her to die because it's a full stop to that train, the story of that army.
I think if there was anything left I think it's more tragic that there's nothing left over from it. There's no possibility that Talisa's in hiding, and she's going to have a baby, and one day that baby will take over as King in the North.
I think there's something tragic about it all being cut short instantly. Catelyn does not slit the throat of Walder Frey's young wife Joyeuse Erenford in the books. Aegon is the court fool at the Twins, derisively made to wear a jester's hat filled with bells, hence his nickname. The other Freys cruelly enjoy watching the fool caper and prance about. In their confrontation, Catelyn says she'll trade a son for a son, but Walder points out that Jinglebell is only a grandson and has never been of much use.
While this does keep the already large number of characters down, it omits the revelation of Walder's hypocrisy: for all of his protestations that he values family above all else, in truth he would casually sacrifice a grandson without regret.
The manner of Catelyn's death is also slightly different: in the books, Catelyn is so consumed by grief at the sight of Robb's death that she claws at her face, raking her fingernails across her cheeks until she has carved out long strips of flesh and is bleeding profusely.
She becomes so hysterical out of a mixture of shock and grief that she goes half-mad and starts laughing uncontrollably, as the blood from her devastated face "tickles", mingling with her tears, until ultimately the horrified Freys who had planned to take her hostage put her out of her misery by slitting her throat.
The TV series's version just has Catelyn stare vacantly in utter, silent despair, not even reacting as Black Walder slits her throat. Another change is that in the books Catelyn is killed by Raymund Frey, a relatively minor character who is the eleventh son of Lord Walder Frey, his sixth son by his third wife.
Her body is dumped into the Green Fork ; several days afterwards she is found by the Brotherhood Without Banners and resurrected, becoming the monstrous Lady Stoneheart also omitted from the show. The Frey musicians do not stop playing The Rains of Castamere during the massacre. It was the signal used to Frey and Bolton men throughout the Twins and in the camps outside to begin the attack, thus the slaughter in the main hall began soon after they started playing.
Catelyn and many other Northerners instantly realize something is wrong when they start playing "the Lannister song", as opposed to in the TV series where Catelyn sits worried and confused when the Frey musicians start playing it. The musicians continue to play the song loudly as fighting breaks out in the main hall, in order to signal men further away in the camps. Additionally, in the show Talisa comments on how talented the musicians are: in the books they are noticeably terrible, probably because the musicians are actually crossbowmen in disguise.
The plan loosely came about after the Battle of the Blackwater , when it became obvious that the Lannisters were winning the war. Tywin never met Roose and Walder in person, but conducted the negotiations through secret letters sent by messenger raven: quite probably, the letters he was nonchalantly writing earlier in Season 3 of the TV series were implied to be these very messages.
In terms of the TV series, this means that Roose was secretly plotting to kill Robb during all of his earlier scenes in Season 3, even those between Roose and Robb himself: he was simply feigning loyalty the entire time. Lame Lothar is the steward of the Twins and in charge of managing the castle. While Walder himself made the general decision to betray the Starks, Lame Lothar planned out the practical details of the betrayal, assigning specific tasks to each group of Frey soldiers.
Just as the music starts playing, Catelyn grabs Edwyn Frey one of Lord Walder's great-grandsons by the arm and notices he is wearing chainmail underneath his outer clothing. She realizes this means the Freys are about to attack them, and she slaps him. This was changed to Roose Bolton in the TV version. Grey Wind is let loose during the massacre by Ser Raynald Westerling, Jeyne Westerling's older brother, who did not take part in the scheme.
According to Merrett Frey, the direwolf kills four wolfhounds and rips the kennelmaster's arm off before being brought down by crossbow fire; Raynald's brave attempt to save Grey Wind presumably costs his life, as he is shot by two arrows, jumps into the river, and his body is never found.
In the TV version, Grey Wind is mercilessly shot while inside his pen and incapable of fighting back at all, unable to do anything but growl. Another minor change is that while Arya did arrive at the Twins as the Red Wedding was taking place, the betrayal began slightly before she arrived and fighting was already breaking out in the camps.
Arya thus never got close enough to personally witness the death of Grey Wind or her brother's mutilated corpse.
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