Red Wedding - Part 2

The best part is that you call tell the people who read the books in these shots by their smug, horrible half-smiles during the carnage. It's that look of 'That's right, you fuckers! I lived through this in 2001 so you can all bite me!'

Twitter reactions: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/06/03/game_of_thrones_red_wedding_upsets_fans_to_the_rains_of_castamere.html

To be fair, I recall how fucked off I was following 'A Storm of Swords'. I'd picked it up with my limited Christmas money and ended up finishing the book at 5am on a work night. The thing that caught me off balance was the casual brutality in it; the kind of unrelenting viciousness as Moremont's daughter is stabbed through the stomach, Robb is butchered, and his wolf's head is sewn on to his decapitated corpse. While it would unfortunately foreshadow Martin's descent into bad shock based plot twists, at the time, it was a jarring shift that was completely unexpected. It's kind of gratifying to see that the television show could garner a similar reaction.