If you've read the GoT books, then you'll know that author George R.R. Martin is a sadistic bastard. Nothing is guaranteed. Everything is temporal.
He likes to kill off the main characters in the most brutal and undignified ways. The characters he knows you all love and care about the most. The ones he has spent the most time developing over the course of the series, garnering the loyalty of readers and viewers... suddenly - 'AHHHHHHHH!' The silvery gleam of a traitor's sword flashes for half a second as it slides across ******'s throat, leaving a trail of fresh vermilion. One of the most loved main characters has just been killed. Now dead. Just like that. You sit there, mouth open, eyes wide, not believing what just happened.
And then you read that passage again and Martin is just like "yep, that just freaking' happened. Deal with it." Resentment boils up inside you. You think of him sitting at home, surrounded by wads of cash, sipping tea in an armchair and then pausing to let out an insouciant chuckle. Yet you know you can't stop reading to find out if they're REALLY dead. So at the same time you keep reading all the books, your mind is like "SCREW YOU GEORGE. SCREW. YOU."
The world of fiction can be cruel and as a celebration of what is hitherto the greatest of Martin's massacres, video reactions of GoT fans who had no idea 'The Red Wedding' was coming has been compiled for your amusement. For those who have already read the books and knew exactly what sort of shit was going to hit the fan - feel free to snigger at the collective screams of diehard fans worldwide.
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