Icepicks and Nukes

Ding! Dong! The witch king is dead!

I’m a few days late on this, but for those of you who haven’t heard, the most reprehensible inbred brat in television history got whacked at his own wedding.  For the back story from the show perspective, I would recommend reading Entertainment Weekly’s interviews with Jack Gleeson, George R. R. Martin, and David Benioff/Dan Weiss. Naturally, the Internet had to chime in, here are a few responses via Twitter [full disclosure/shameless self-promotion: some of the tweets are mine]:

https://twitter.com/ChristianHeiens/status/455538396073820160
https://twitter.com/anniecolbert/statuses/455525664775757825

https://twitter.com/BunnieMarie/statuses/455536801701040128
https://twitter.com/daviddesola/status/455558345026707457
https://twitter.com/daviddesola/status/455560406506147840
https://twitter.com/daviddesola/status/455565604481925120

And last, but certainly not least – here’s a clip of Tyrion slapping Joffrey around for 10 minutes, set to Led Zeppelin’s “Achilles Last Stand.”