Fair warning, if you haven't seen the season finale of Game Of Thrones yet, then you might want to come back to this later on. If you have seen it, then you can skip the next few lines in this opening. This sentence is just filler that doesn't matter, it's a preventative measure to make sure that any kind of preview shown with this link doesn't leak any spoiler information. That being said, it's onto the theorycrafting.
Let's just jump into the big one. Jon Snow is dead. He's clearly dead. This is Game of Thrones version of the death of Julius Caesar. Then there was the growing pool of blood under him. Jon Snow is dead. So here's where things get really interesting, and it's not a spoiler until it's proven. So Melisandre rides into Castle Black the day of Jon Snow's death, and is visibly shaken. Probably by the fact that her fortune telling isn't as accurate as when she is actually able to read people. In a scene in an earlier season, Melisandre is speaking with Stannis's wife Selyse and mentions how she just kind of nudges people in the direction she wants, and also don't touch that one vial because it'll kill you. She doesn't really see the future in the flames. That does not mean, however, she is without power. She gave birth to a shadow, and she very clearly can read minds when she touches someone. Melisandre is manipulating men of power, and she does it through religion and sex. That being said, she clearly read something about Snow with their interaction earlier this season. However, she very much misread what she gleaned from him. So here she is at Castle Black, after fleeing the battlefield of a sure loss, looking pretty damn upset. Why did she ride for Castle Black though? She could have rode off anywhere else, but instead, she goes back to Castle Black where Jon Snow is because there's something about Jon Snow. So Melisandre will wake up in the morning, have her coffee, light a candle and try to read the flame like a newspaper, and then be told Jon Snow is dead. Her main mission, in all the seasons, has been to get an army together to stop the White Walkers. She can't lose both of her champions on consecutive days. So clearly, Melisandre will get Ser Davos to help her out, get Jon Snow's body, get out of Castle Black, and then resurrect him. He died in the service of the Night's Watch, so technically his debt is paid. He doesn't have to go back, and because resurrection takes a piece of you away, Jon Snow is going to be different from here on out.
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| I see what you did there! |
Or...
Maybe he did warg out into the body of Ghost. This would be horrible. For one, it seems like warging is a very rare thing. So to have multiple wargs from the same father, who couldn't warg, seems very unlikely. For the sake of argument, let's say he is now in the body of Ghost. Now what? He just runs off and becomes a dire wolf version of Lassie? His body is dead, so he can't just shift back, and even though I'm unfamiliar with the rules of warging, I highly doubt he can shift his mind into another body that is occupied. The obvious retort to this is Bran and Hodor. Well, Hodor is simple. No one has also heard of a person warging into a person until Bran did it. That likely means Bran is one powerful warg. So now we would be expected to believe that there are two wargs in the same family, AND are both so powerful they can possess people? The only way to salvage this is to have Melisandre resurrect Jon Snow, and then he wargs back into himself. That seems kind of awkward, because Snow would be alive, but comatose, until he released his grip on Ghost? The whole warging theory just bogs down the story.
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| What is it Jon? Did Bran fall from another tower? |
Or...
Jon Snow is actually dead, there's no coming back this time. The showrunners have told Kit Harrington he is dead. One of the showrunners, Dan Weiss, has said "dead is dead." If this holds true, then at this point, I think we know where the show is going over the next two seasons. The White Walkers come, the White Walkers destroy. The only people left are the ones not on that side of the world. With a mass exodus from Westeros, reports will be received in Essos, and no one will attempt to reclaim Westeros because of the lack of military. Definitely a lack of military. Every person killed by the White Walkers is a new soldier. That's the endgame.
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| Do we know how to swim? |
What I want to happen, and I have no inside information, and I haven't read the books either, is Melisandre and Ser Davos smuggle Jon Snow's body out of castle Black and resurrect him. Being free of his servitude of the Night's Watch (he died,) he's free to move South to gather up resources and support for the coming war with the White Walkers. Because being resurrected takes a piece of your soul away, Snow would be less honorable, and more vicious, like a moodier Ser Bronn without the humor. You could establish this by having him, once resurrected, march back into Castle Black and kill the traitors. It's not like he'd be taking on a full regiment, it looks like around 20 men. Since he'd be sneaking back in and laying everyone to waste, that's not too hard to pull off for one man with a working knowledge of the guard shifts, and the layout of the castle. Removing the Bolton's from Winterfell would give Snow an army. With Melisandre hanging around, he might actually be able to find out who his mother was also, but that's not overly important. I know there's been some news lately about how Kit Harrington cut his hair, and he wasn't able to cut his hair while he was still on the show. Could there be a better visual change for a character who died, was resurrected, and lost a piece of his soul in the process, then to have him cut his mane down?
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| Those are Valyrian scissors. |
As for the rest if the episode, Brienne establishes once again why I find her kind of blah. Sansa and Reek (or is he back to Theon now?) take a leap of faith over the walls. That's not so much of a cliffhanger. It's Winterfell, there's snow on the ground, I'm willing to bet they landed in the snow that was piled up at the base of the wall just from wind blowing it around. The Sand Snakes were a big let down this season. This might still happen, but Myrcella just died of poison. The boat is probably fifteen to twenty minutes away from the docks they just left. So, why not turn around, drop the corpse at the foot of Prince Doran, and have things settled right then? Granted, Jamie isn't the smartest man in the world, but do you really want to go back to Cersei with the news that you failed, and there was no retribution? The whole Dorne storyline was a pretty big letdown. I'm crossing my fingers about this, but, I hope the Arya story arc just proved a theory I had. There is no Jaqen H'ghar. Jaqen H'ghar is just the name associated with the face being used. So anytime Arya uses that name, any member of the House of Black and White can shift into that form. So while the actual person is nameless, and nobody, the identities they assume have names.
So much thought has been put into this show, and books for that matter, that I enjoy the theorycrafting about the endgame of the series, and the fates of the characters, With nine months (give or take) until the new season, it leaves fans plenty of time to speculate about all of this, and keep them hooked in and wanting more.
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