Jon Snow is still dead, folks. Stop reading if you have not seen the season-six opener of “Game of Thrones”.
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Media outlets spent the past day or so trying to avoid broadcasting Game of Thrones spoilers after the first episode of Season 6 debuted Sunday in the USA, but it looks like we needn’t have bothered.
“Game of Thrones” season 6, episode 2 airs on Monday, May 2 on HBO. “Almost that time!” tweeted Houston Texans offensive tackle and Thrones fans Duane Brown as the episode was about to begin, before adding around an hour later: “What. The”.
But the fact that Melisandre is revealing her true self now is important, given what’s happened to her character on the show – following last season’s resounding defeat and death of Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane) after he followed all of her instructions, including burning his young daughter at the stake.
It’s the final moments of the episode, when we learn why the episode was actually named “The Red Woman”.
Helen Sloan/HBO Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister and Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister.
If you didn’t stick around Sunday night for the first installment, a couple clips have been posted online. Tyrion demands good news, but has to make his own.
Davos retrieves Jon’s body with some help of his loyal friends, who are all convinced that this was the world of Ser Alliser Thorne, who has hated their new Lord Commander since the first day he arrived at Castle Black. “Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon) proposes a plan, and Balon Greyjoy (Patrick Malahide) entertains other proposals”. To which Jamie tells her that they should only think of “getting back everything we’ve lost”.
The first episode may not tie off any loose ends, but it does give us a bit of a breather before killing off another major character (we’re looking at you, Tommen) and, in a sense, allowing us to place where all our favorite characters now are before we’re plunged into the rest of the season.
“[Her age was] why she was able to say, ‘This is just a small war, it’s all relative compared to the big war we’re going to face, ‘” she said of Melisandre sacrificing Shireen in Season 5.
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“Game of Thrones” is the most pirated television show of all time, according to TorrentFreak. We didn’t see Bran or any of the characters in his storyline, and we caught up with blind Arya struggling on the streets as a beggar.
