Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow...
Now that's how you end a wedding.
Hahaha. So long, d***face!
Sure, it might have been more gratifying to see King Joffrey meet his end at the actual hands of someone who hated him, with him seeing the face of his attacker and knowing why he was being killed - like with Arya and Polliver back in the season premiere. But there's also something to be said for spending a full minute in agony, choking to death in front of hundreds of people, eyes bulging and blood oozing from your nose. I'll take that over a quicker death via dagger or sword any day.
And while George R. R. Martin still insists on ending each wedding we see with a gruesome death (or twelve), he's willing to make some concessions. As it turns out, the person we hated the most on this series was also on the murder menu. And for this brief moment, Martin comes off as an equal opportunity smiter. It's also worth mentioning that Martin himself wrote this particular episode - "The Lion and the Rose" - and in doing so got to bring Joffrey's death to life - as close as he could to how he once envisioned it in A Storm of Swords. I'll bring up Martin a bit later on in the review, but this episode was the great example of a source author being brought in to, all at once, replicate, rework, and re-envision their original story.
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