Game of Thrones season 4 has upped the ante in unexpected events with their recently aired episode titled "The Lion and the Rose". They did well to hide the events of the episode by hiding the famous (though fanmade) title of Joffrey and Margaery's wedding, the Purple Wedding.
After reading a few plot points regarding the Purple Wedding in A Storm of Swords, I noticed one crucial difference in the book and in the T.V. series.
/*SPOILER ALERT*/
The poison called "Strangler" which killed Joffrey was smuggled into the wedding via Sansa Stark. In the books, Sansa was given a hairnet instead of a necklace by Ser Dontos but either way the item that Ser Dontos gave to Sansa was the source of the poison that killed Joffrey, the question then is how the poison got into Joffrey's drink.
The characters who plotted the poisoning were Petyr Baelish and Olenna Tyrell. Since Littlefinger wasn't anywhere in the wedding, it's safe to assume that the Queen of Thorns was responsible for putting the strangler in Joffrey's drink. While it wasn't shown how she put it there, how she took the sapphire from Sansa's necklace was subtly shown. Keen viewers of the episode, especially those who've read the book, should have noticed this:
The original number of sapphires in Sansa's necklace is six. I couldn't get a close shot of her necklace after Olenna spoke to Sansa during the wedding, but the description on the book - how Olenna straightened Sansa's hair - was depicted well on the t.v. series being able to hide the meaning of the scene pictured above well.
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| the sapphire necklace before ser Dontos gave it to Sansa (taken from The Game of Thrones season 4 episode 1) |
And of course the result which all of us can't get enough of:
...and incidentally Cersei's...ermmm never mind.
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