This! The actual ceremony was like 2 minutes long while they spent the first 15 minutes on Ramsay
Look on the bright side, at least they were nice enough to put the really boring stories of the series in with the shocker. That way they didn't waste an entire episode on the boring storylines.
Originally posted by George R. R. Martin on Tonight's Episode
“I mean, Joffrey, as monstrous as he is — and certainly he’s just as monstrous in the books as he is in the TV show, and Jack has brought some incredible acting chops to the role that somehow makes him even more loathsome than he is on the page — but Joffrey in the books is still a 13-year-old kid. And there’s kind of a moment there where he knows that he’s dying and he can’t get a breath and he’s kind of looking at Tyrion and at his mother and at the other people in the hall with just terror and appeal in his eyes—you know, “Help me mommy, I’m dying.” And in that moment, I think even Tyrion sees a 13-year-old boy dying before him. So I didn’t want it to be entirely, “Hey-ho, the witch is dead.” I wanted the impact of the death to still strike home on to perhaps more complex feelings on the part of the audience, not necessarily just cheering.”
Unfortunately I couldn't watch the episode real time and twitter spoilt it for me but OH MY. Easily one of the best episode in the shows run, cannot believe we're only on episode two.