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Yep, that's why I can never back Stannis as king, and he himself knows it to be true as well, he is not well loved and that is why he is, as Davos says, King of the Painted Table (and of course why Joffrey was murdered). He might be the "rightful" king, but only in the sense he's heir to a Usurper. The entire point of GoT is might, trumps right. I like Stannis, I find Stannis compelling, and admirable, yet definitely not rootable. Yes a good King keeps wise council but I just I am never going to accept Mel as wise council. She's well-intentioned, but still pretty clueless and evil AFAIK. Burning people who don't kowtow to R'Holler is bullshit. Stannis supporting and participating in that is Bullshit. And he is a kinslayer whether he fully understands and accepts that or not, another of his precious rules broken. I admire that he wants to follow the law, and that he values Davos, but I'm frustrated by his refusal to see everybody, including him, breaks the rules when it's convenient for them to break them ,and rationalize the fact that they did break them.

Actually someone on Westeros pointed out that Olenna drops the stone from the necklace in the carafe after she walks away from Sansa and back to her seat on the dias. It's a wide shot, but you can clearly hear her plink/clink it into the bottle. I really hope that means Margery WAS in on it, because otherwise that was a big risk.

I think for the most part, bookwalkers aren't doing it on purpose. The non-linear nature of the narrative, the multiple povs, and the fact that since S2 the writers have cherry picked, juggled storylines makes it really difficult to sort of keep it straight in your head what's fair game to talk about, which is why it's such a challenge to talk about this show on the internet. As far as who the whodunit aspect of this episode, I'm kind of bummed they made it as hard to figure out as they did, the scene with Olenna and the stone from the necklace, I was looking for it and still missed it the first time. And focusing on the pie and dead birds, makes it even more obscure not just who, but how he was poisoned. Knowing Olenna did it was the very best part of Joffrey dying for me, and also a bummer because you realize how easily she sacrificed Sansa in the bargain, but perhaps she still thought Baelish and the Vale was a better circumstance than Lannisters/Kings Landing. Six of one and half dozen of the other really QoT. I laughed very heartily at Joffrey throwing money at Sigur Ros to shut up, since I find them insufferably pretentious in real life.