Now that the show is moving beyond the story in the books, giving fans of the A Song of Ice and Fire series serious anxiety, things are happening that don’t happen in the books.
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The question of Jon Snow’s parentage has become a fan theory so widespread that even book-ignoring newbies like me know about it. Jon, it’s claimed, is the son of Ned’s sister Lyanna Stark and Daenerys’ brother Rhaegar Targaryen.
The tantalizing flashback, seen through Bran’s greensight, is the closest the show has come to revealing the answer to one of its biggest mysteries: the identity of Jon Snow’s mother.
They found her at the Tower of Joy, in the mountains that formed the border with Dorne.
The “good news/bad news” events from the episode were, first off, Arya getting her sight back. although she is still insisting she is “a girl with no name”. We even got Meera Reed’s backstabbing father. Only joking, of course we’re not talking about Bran. “From S6E3, Bran realizes that others can hear him during the visions from the past, but doesn’t understand that they cannot fully understand him”, the Redditor writes. No matter how the discussions over how much longer the show will run end up, it has definitely entered the point where every second not spent moving toward the story’s endgame is a second wasted, and there is so much more that needs wrapping up that it’s hard to imagine this stuff being a priority beyond the plot mechanics. He sees the younger version of his late father fighting at the Tower of Joy against Ser Arthur Dayne and one other Kingsguard knight. Besides the presence of the Kingsguard, Tower scene also includes a reference to Lyanna dying in a “bed of blood”, and the implication that Ned swore to obey her last wish.
“Honor was so important to Ned Stark that it was worth losing his life for, but he was completely ready to let go of that honor and excellence to do something he really felt was more important”, Weiss adds. (For more information, Google the phrase “R+L=J”). Soon after, Ned heard a frightful scream coming from The Tower of Joy and Ned runs off to save his sister.
Episode 3: Jon Snow avenges his on death! An answer of “Lyanna Stark” would have indicated they’d passed Thrones 101.
Since Jon Snow remembered everything, he went on to hang his murderers.
Pretty cool ‘ey? Between that and his earlier uncharacteristic joke with Edd, we’re looking forward to some more sassy one-liners from one of our favourite residents of Westeros.
How Jon himself find out?
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While more shared frustrated GIFs, with one writing: “How I felt about them cutting away from the Tower of Joy before Lyanna was shown”. Having the littlest Stark in his grip gives Ramsay leverage over the territories of the North-the kind he lost when Sansa escaped-and an emotional advantage over Jon, whom the now-official Warden hopes to overpower at Castle Black.
