“Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon) proposes a plan, and Balon Greyjoy (Patrick Malahide) entertains other proposals”, reads the episode description from HBO. Meanwhile, a big fan speculation about Kit Harington’s Jon Snow has been proved to be accurate.
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We cheered, we yelled, we poured a nice glass of Game of Thrones beer in his honor, and then we thought for just a second about how many people have told us Jon Snow was dead over the past year. Go ahead, heave a huge sigh of relief.
Before the murder, Ramsay had discussed the option of moving north and taking out Jon Snow. After determining hes dead, he and Ser Davos decide to ready a funeral pyre. It featured a group of characters we know, including Ned and Lyanna (!) Stark, giving rise to fan theories re: Jon Snow’s impending true parentage reveal. However, if you were looking for answers as to how Jon Snow will be resurrected, then we’d say not to go looking for them this week as it doesn’t look like we’ll get any.
And so, I bet, does Melisandre (Carice van Houten), whose crisis of confidence was more surprising than the moment when the former lord commander gasped back to life, after she’d given him up for dead – again. She becomes a beggar for a total of two episodes in GOT 6. Oh well. The High Sparrow’s line “Everyone of us is poor and powerless, and yet together we can overthrow an empire” sounds a tad less absurd in a campaign season that’s seen the political establishment upended by Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. In fact, before the first resurrection Thoros felt so down and so defeated that he practically gave up on his faith. An unsettled Tormund also seems to think the process has failed and leaves the room.
Regardless of how it works, the questions we should be asking is will Jon somehow be a changed man, and will he be worse off now that he’s returned?
Asked which characters he would like Jon Snow to meet, Harington made an intriguing suggestion – his own, not one from the writers’ – long before Jon’s death and revival.
Many fans will immediately dismiss the prospect of staying up that late or setting their alarm for a time more usually associated with early-morning flights. Sure, Jon Snow was definitely dead on the series during Episode 1. “I had the most unbelievable time, everyone was so welcoming and excited”.
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“Now we’re given looks into very important events in the past, present, and future of this world and Bran is beginning to piece them together like a detective, nearly as if he’s watching the show”, he shared.
