ChainsawAsh said:

Bingowings said:

Fans of the books please bear with me, I haven't read them but usually villains (even cruel sadists) have some feature of interest which makes them compelling to watch or read.

Young King Joffrey is just a nasty little git.

There is nothing interesting, redeeming, or entertaining about him at all so far in the series.

He isn't a love to hate character he is just a vile piece of work and I can't see how any death, no matter how imaginative would work as narrative payback for what he is.

He is like one of the monsters from Salo.

This is why I take issue with the scene of him with the prostitutes this week. It's not in the books, but it's not a necessary addition either - you don't learn anything new about him, except maybe that he's even worse than you thought. But we already thought he was a monster, so it doesn't significantly enhance our understanding of the character. It's just unnecessarily off-putting.

Overall, though, this season's been fantastic, even though it's less faithful to the book than season 1 was. This is really the only non-book thing so far that I don't like.

Season 2 is pretty damn good so far, but damn do you hate Joffrey or what, I really hope he gets what is coming to him, hopefully Ned's Daughter will give it to him in the end.