Ergo, perfectly in keeping with George R.R. Melisandre curiously asks the question that all living beings harbor have for the dead: what’s on the other side? Jon Snow answers with the bummer revelation of “nothing,” yet his mere presence infers that there is certainly a red god of some kind that heard Melisandre’s prayer. Jon had always been such a kind-hearted (read: gullible) Lord Commander that it was a break in etiquette for him to so rudely return and foil their plans at Castle Black. Melisandre is as incredulous as Ser Davos Seaworth that their chanting actually worked Tormund Giantsbane explains that Jon’s breathing visage has frightened the Free Folk and Ser Alliser Thorne and company look genuinely aghast-but not because Jon Snow is risen more they’re irritated that he didn’t have the politeness to stay dead. With his return from the dead, Jon Snow is treated as both a god and a demon by all that he sees. So, in actuality, what remains in the fog of all future episodes is far more cryptic than any flying beastie. Historically, we’re at the stage in the series’ run where medieval geographers would pencil in “here be dragons.” But we’ve already met those cuddly little fire-breathers on HBO. Only now that we’re past Jon Snow’s resurrection-and for that matter, Roose Bolton’s barely attended funeral in the Winterfell kennels-does it feel like the show has truly entered into the unknown quadrants on Martin’s map. Seven Hells, most probably knew that it’d be the Red Witch who’d conjure that miracle. Everyone and their unsullied mother could have told you Jon Snow was coming back from the dead by the time Game of Thrones season 6 premiered last month. but that the show has finally entered uncharted territory Beyond George R.R.
The sense of midnight shadow creeping through the episode wasn’t that Jon Snow was back…. But no, in spite of whatever evil black magic and bad juju Melisandre called down to bring Jon Snow back from the dead, I knew I was as giddy as season 1 Tyrion in a tavern to witness Kit Harington exhale onscreen again.
Martin’s most recent book, A Dance with Dragons, was published). At first, I think it is because in a room filled with “A Song of Ice and Fire” fans, I was witnessing the true rise and return of Jon Snow this week, a character whose death had plagued some of us since 2011 (when George R.R. Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 3Īfter three hours into the sixth season of Game of Thrones, a gnawing sensation that we are witnessing something truly perverse and unnatural has finally taken hold of me. This Game of Thrones review contains spoilers.
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