With season Six approaching in April and season Five still fuelling theories and conspiracies, here is a quick summary of how season five ended, and the first, of a few instalments of GAME OF THRONES THEORIES, where I discuss theories surrounding the characters and the intricate plot. Welcome to instalment #1 regarding no one other than… Jon Snow! Potential spoilers ahead. A little summary…. Let’s think all the way back to that heart-wrenching, gobsmacking, crazy episode that was GOT season 5’s finale and remind ourselves how it all ended. Sam, Gilly and Baby Sam go to Oldtown so that Sam can become a Maester. At Castle Black, Melisandre (I like calling her Mel) arrives and later Alliser and Olly, revolt against Jon, stabbing him and then leaving him to die.
Stannis’ situation just gets more and more dire after Mel murders Princess Shireen.
His wife Selyse hangs herself from guilt and half of his forces desert him. Near Winterfell, where Brienne is waiting for Sansa to light a candle so she can save her, Stannis comes across Brienne and is apparently killed by her. Sansa is able to leave her room and she and Reek jump off Winterfell’s walls trying to escape. Cersei confesses to sleeping with Lancel so she has to walk across the city naked (SHAME SHAME SHAME, ring a bell?). When Cersei arrives home she is introduced to a new Kingsguard, a massive man whose identity is unknown.
Jaime, with Myrcella, Trystane and Bronn sail from Dorne. Jaime tells Myrcella that he is her dad but she collapses, after being poisoned by Ellaria. Arya kills Ser Meryn in a brothel, and Jaqen takes his life to repay for the one Arya took, and she is blinded.
Varys arrives in Meereen to rule with Tyrion, Grey Worm and Missandei since Daenerys disappeared and Daario and Jorah went looking for her.
Daenerys finds her self in the middle of no where with a super lazy Drogon who just wants to relax and chill out instead of bring her home. In the mean time, a HUGE group of Dothraki arrive and encircle Daenerys leaving her helpless.
Let’s get to business
First of all, we need to start with the MOST SHOCKING TRAGIC TURN OF EVENTS IN THE WHOLE SEASON. Jon Snow. There are so so so so many theories about what happened to Jon, the biggest one being that he didn't die. We actually know for sure now that Kit Harington (who plays Jon) has returned to the set to film which means that Jon hasn’t actually died. But how will he return? This is where it gets interesting.
Jon come back as a White Walker. It’s a real possibility, especially if the rest of the Night Watch doesn't burn him and then gets distracted long enough for him to become one. If he does, will he infiltrate the army of white walkers and destroy them from the inside? Or will he truly become one of them?
Is it a coincidence that Mel just happens to arrive at Castle Black? She’s already revived other characters (and her religion actually seems to be legit, apart from the small fact that she messed up regarding Stannis’ prophecy), so she’ll revive Jon right? I mean, he can’t be dead, his potential storyline is too important to ignore. And this is where we move into a hardcore theory. R + L = J. R + L = J is most probably true, so if you don’t want to know stop reading now - You can start reading again in one paragraph. This theory is all about who Jon Snow’s parents actually are. Since the very beginning, we’ve been told that Jon’s dad was Ned, while his mother was a random prostitute that Ned slept with. However, this theory suggests that Jon’s mother was actually, Lyanna Stark (Ned’s sister), and his father, Rheagar Targaryen. The theory is, that during Robert Baratheon’s war to overthrow the Targaryen dynasty, Lyanna was abducted by Rheagar Targaryen. The two of the camped out in the Tower of Joy for a while, until Lyanna was left alone because Rheagar had gone to fight (to his death). Ned and a few soldiers arrive to the tower, there is a battle, and finally Ned is able to go save Lyanna. When Ned enters the tower, he finds Lyanna in a pool of blood, where she utters her last words “Promise me Ned”. The theory is that the pool of blood wasn’t from an injury but from child birth (guess who the baby is… that’s right, Jon Snow), and that the promise she had Ned make was to raise Jon as his own and never disclose his true identity as he would probably be murdered. OKAY! Back to the business regarding his death and resurrection. Jon is a Warg (like Bran, he can turn into his wolf (although Jon resists it, in A Dance with Dragons he wargs with Ghost for only a second: “the direwolf brushed up against his fingers. For half a heartbeat the night came alive with a thousand smells”)). When Wargs die they can live on in their animals, in A Dance with Dragons, Jon’s last word is “Ghost”, highlighting is intensely close relationship with his wolf. Also, in A Dance with Dragons, Melisandre has a vision: “Jon Snow, his long face floated before her, limned in tongues of red and orange… Now he was a man, now a wolf, now a man again,” maybe this will happen in the books more than in the show (since we are not given this information in the show), but it demonstrates that there is hope for Jon’s return. “…Now a man again” suggests that it could be Mel who resurrects him, so the show could just skip directly to that.
In the next instalment of “Game of thrones theories”:
I discuss theories surrounding the Lord of Light and what a some of the other characters may be up to in the next season.
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