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Game of Thrones finale: say it isn’t so!

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Say it isn’t so!

Jon Snow dead as a doornail? It can’t be true.

But that’s the proposition that Game of Thrones left us with after he was cruelly stabbed to death in the season finale. And yes, his death does indeed take place, more or less, in the books.

There are several theories on whether he can indeed reappear next season and you can read a bunch of those here.

Meanwhile, here is part of an interview Kit Harrington gave to EW:

I was talking to Dan Weiss and he said Jon is really dead. But George R.R. Martin left open the possibility the character might not be dead in the books. And then that cast salary contract story came out last year and it had your name among those receiving raises for season six and an option on a seventh. So let me ask you: Is Jon really dead?

KH: “This is my understanding of it. I had a sit-down with Dan and David, we did the Tony Soprano walk [letting an actor know they’re being whacked]. And they said, ‘Look, you’re gone, it’s done.’And as far as the salary thing goes, that angered me when that story came out. I don’t know where it came from, but it was inaccurate in many ways. It’s going to put questions into your head and into fans’ heads that things are not what they are. Quite honestly, I have never been told the future of things in this show, but this is the one time I have. They sat me down and said, ‘This is how it is.’ If anything in the future is not like that, then I don’t know about it – it’s only in David and Dan and George’s heads. But I’ve been told I’m dead. I’m dead. I’m not coming back next season. So that’s all I can tell you, really.”

And by the way… somebody get Lena Headey an Emmy nomination for THAT scene please!

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  1. Good episode wasn’t great and was rushed, I think Jon snow will be brought back by lady in red. Ayra scene was way over the top, and the nude walk was way to drawn out. And Lena better not win anything it wasn’t even her walking the street, they wasted to much time on that and the rest felt rushed, also stannis isn’t dead

    1. I agree with almost everything you’ve said here, especially Lena’s long, drawn out walk. However, we differ on Stannis as I think he’s dead.

      1. Yeah for some reason everybody is saying his dead. He might be dead. But we never saw him die and GoT likes to show the deaths, I can’t see why they wouldn’t of shown it therefore I think he wasn’t killed. I’ve seen too many shows where if u don’t see someone die there normally still alive, guess we will see

  2. If you look at his “Filmography” on imdb.com you can see that Kit Harington has no future work scheduled after this season of GoT.
    Ask yourself is this likely?

  3. Lean Headley definitely deserves a nomination for that scene, the whole gamut of emotions she portrayed only through her face without saying a word was remarkable. I really hope Jon Snow survives somehow, but based on comments made by the showrunners and Kir Harrington, it doesn’t look likely.

        1. I don’t think she has ever been wrong just miss understood what her gods told her. I think burning stannis’s daughter wasn’t for stannis to win in battle but is for bringing back Jon snow. Which is why the lady in red came back to the wall

  5. I haven’t sobbed as a result of a TV finale for a long time, but classic GoT got me again. There would be no other reason for Melisandre to be at the Wall unless she was there for Jon Snow, so it’s pretty obvious what’s going to happen IMHO.

    1. Melisandre can either head south through Bolton territory or North back to the Wall. Perhaps she was racing to save Jon Snow, once the Lord of Light forsake Stannis, but was too late.

      Would the producers fire Harington and have him publically announce that just to trick the fans?

      As to Stannis why wouldn’t he be dead? His god has forsaken him and he had serious life threatening injuries in hostile country before Brienne passed her death sentence. And his part in the story is over, he’s lost all his men, money and any respect. It always seemed to me like that Gendry, Robert’s bastard, was there to be the last Baratheon to have a claim on the throne.

      We shall see in April.

  7. How does Kit Harrington know he is not coming back? We all know ‘you know nothing Jon Snow’. The final 3 eps this year have been epic,….plot/storyline….acting……filming/directing

  8. Game of Thrones has done something that I thought was never possible. I never want to turn my TV on again. I’ll be selling my TV on ebay later today so I never have to endure an ending like that ever again !

    1. Actually the book leaves it up in the air whether he is dead or not. Video makes it clear that he is dead and the actor says he ain’t coming back in any form. The TV shows has taken a simpler you’re either dead or part of the Army of The Undead approach after S2, which is different from the books. I don’t they they could diverge on Jon Snow though so it looks like a spoiler for the novels.

      They got through the most of A Feast of Crows and A Dance With Dragons pretty quickly this season. They have given up waiting for Martin to get any more published and it looks like HBO has given them a number of seasons in which to wrap it up, and it’s looking like a few.

  11. Lena was apparently pregnant during filming so definitely a body double needs nominating too LOL

    The show uses wigs a lot so never say never about Jon’s return, but Kit has cut his hair since filming completed.

    1. If Kit has had his hair cut then he would be out of contract as his contract stipulated he not cut his hair. Doesn’t mean he won’t be back but I’ll bet that clause is not in any new contract he signs.

    1. EW notes: “The sequence took three grueling days to shoot, and while Headey might not have been naked herself during all the shots (a body double was used), she still had to pass through the hostile jeering mud-slinging crowd over and over again, trying to silently convey a progressive journey of complex emotions…”

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