Joffrey Baratheon Killed in Game of Thrones Season 4 Episode 2 The Lion and the Rose

 

What happened in Game of Thrones Season 4, Episode 2 ("The Lion and the Rose")?

This episode originally aired on HBO, and was written by George R. R. Martin from the A Song of Ice and Fire novels. This wedding event in the Game of Thrones novels is referred to as the "Purple Wedding"

The Following Information has SPOILER details from the television series Game of Thrones Season 4 Episode 2

How did Joffrey Baratheon die?

Joffrey Baratheon was poisoned by Petyr Baelish (also known as "Littlefinger" and Olenna Tyrell at his wedding to Margaery Tyrell, however Tyrion Lannister is blamed and arrested for his murder, and Sansa Stark is accused of being his accomplice. This wedding event in the Game of Thrones novels is referred to as the Purple Wedding. (Also see my previous blog post: "The Red Wedding") The death of the principal villain "Joffrey" all happened only a few episodes after the Red Wedding.

Sadly, or not-so-sadly, Joffrey was killed within hours of his wedding.

Episode 2 (The Lion and the Rose) is a "satisfying" episode, because the Game of Thrones character Joffrey Baratheon rules as an out of control dictator and dies, and arguably so because he deserved it due to his abuse of power on the throne. His character clearly was not fit to rule a Kingdom, but he was given this incredible position of power so early on in his life. Given the fast pace of the Game of Thrones series, his death happened quickly in the HBO series.

The Events Leading up to the Death of Joffrey Baratheon in Season 4, Episode 2

Ramsay is hunting a woman with the help of Theon Greyjoy, whom Ramsay has tortured and brainwashed into being his servant "Reek" after castrating him. Ramsay tells Theon about Robb Stark's death as Theon is shaving him.

Back at the King's Landing, Tyrion Lannister convinces Jaime to train on the sword with his left hand (since his right hand - his sword hand - was chopped off). 

The Purple Wedding of Joffrey Baratheon and Margaery Tyrell

Joffrey and Margaery are married at the Sept of Baelor to unite the houses Baratheon and Tyrell and the wedding party returns to the Red Keep for the wedding feast. Cersei confronts and accuses the woman knight Brienne of being in love with her brother, Jaime. For entertainment, Joffrey is amused by a play involving dwarves at his wedding, that re-enacts the War of the Five Kings, and urges Tyrion Lannister to join the play, trying to humiliate him. But Tyrion has a witty response that insults Joffrey. So Joffrey makes Tyrion his cupbearer. The new bride of Joffrey, Margaery, tries to calm everyone down, but at this moment, Joffrey starts choking after drinking from the chalice. Joffrey accuses Tyrion, his newly appointed cupbearer of poisoning him. Cersei orders that Tyrion is arrested for poisoning the King. This leads to Tyrion's decision to leave King's Landing. If you have not already, read how Robb Stark was killed off in Game of Thrones, Season 3, Episode 9, "Red Wedding"

X-files Season 10, Episode 1 Changes Everything

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Just so you know, there are 9 Seasons of X-files available to watch for free on Comcast On Demand (for now, anyways).

Warning: This Contains Spoilers of X-files Season 10

X-Files Season 10 Shows the Truth about Aliens and the Government Cover-up

And in the first episode of the new season 10, Mulder concedes that there just wasn't enough proof out there to prove that aliens exist, before seeing undeniable proof. Watching the first episode was more like a grand finale that the start of a new-mini season, because Mulder gets to see what he has been searching for during his career in the FBI. The premise of the new X-files mini-series is "Ok, we now have proof." Show's over folks, they've blown the whole mystery to the X-files. Aliens are now among us, and the Smoking man smokes cigarettes from his throat hole. Mulder finally sees an alien spaceship, build by a super secretive group of people that know aliens exist. The spaceship runs on energy free floating in the universe. Mulder sees the ship floating in the air. The government agents find out, and destroy this ship before the end of the episode.

Things we find out from episode 1:

• An alien saucer crash landed in Roswell, NM (pretty obvious one here)
• The government has been using alien spaceships to abduct people and conduct tests on humans. The alien abductee in episode one has been abducted many times, and she said that her baby was taken out through her belly button, and this traumatic experience could not be forgotten. Her other memories were wiped clean.
• Scully finds out that the woman was not lying about having alien DNA inside of her (put there by aliens), after running tests on her blood.
• The government has been conducting tests on humans to make alien human hybrids.

Things we find out from episode 2:

• The government is funding programs to take in homeless people and conduct tests on them
• Mulder and Scully discuss their son, William (who would be 15 years old at this point)
• They don't know if their son was experimented on. He was in a wreck and taken to the hospital.
• There are many flashbacks of Mulder and Scully with their son in this episode
• William was "abducted" from their house right in front of Mulder (in the final scene of episode 2)
• In episode 2, experimenting on humans appears to be out of control. The government is funding projects everywhere Mulder and Scully go 
• Ear piercing sounds are heard throughout this episode. First Mulder, and then the woman that kills her unborn son in her stomach, then Mulder hears it again.
• A1 Janitoral services the same government funded eugenics facility
• They track down Kyle, who has the ability to project ear piercing sounds wavelengths, and his sister Molly is telepathic.
• Kyle kills people with his powers

  Things we find out from episode 3:

• In episode 3, we see the first alien (it looks like a lizard, and kills a man by feasting on his throat)

• Episode 3 has humor in it

• Apparently the human lizard in the episode can transform back into human form at his own will
• This episode has Mulder poking fun at previous X-files lore
• Episode 3 plays on the werewolf tale. The lizard man changes back and forth from man to lizard

What is disappointing about X-Files Season 10?

The new season of X-files has lost much of the mystery it originally had. It seems forced. The government conspiracy abducting people is blatantly obvious. The experimenting on children is "in your face" and the show seems to have lost much of the charm that it once had. Children are disappearing right and left, in the name of science.
The conflict is "man vs. government" and the government is winning at every turn. Mulder and Scully have been off of the X-files.