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  • So Game of Thrones' season finale is over and it pretty much contained more cliffhangers

  • in one single episode than The Walking Dead in an entire season. And ... we could say

  • that a LOT happened in this episode. So in this very quick and very unconventional Monsters

  • of the Week, I want to talk about maybe the most seminal moment of that finale. If you've

  • seen it - you know what I'm talking about.

  • So, before I go on, be warned loudly and clearly - if you have neither watched the Season finale

  • or at least completed "A Dance with Dragons", then PLEASE consider twice before watching

  • this video - because it is one big, massive spoiler.

  • So here's your chance to leave and come back as soon as you've caught up.

  • Still with me? Cool.

  • So Game of Thrones did it again, right? Without any warning, they brutally and mercilessly

  • killed one of the protagonists, a guy that everybody's rooted for and that literally

  • noone expected to bite the dust. Even though everybody should be wary by now, they pulled

  • the rug from under everyone's feet once again. Because at the end of Season 5's finale - Jon

  • Snow gets stabbed by a handful of Watchers that didn't completely agree with his Wildling-friendly

  • policy - and dies.

  • Or does he?

  • Because I - alongside with many of the book's readers since 2011 - are far from convinced

  • that Jon Snow stays that way.

  • And here's why.

  • First of all, Game of Thrones have shown us on numerous occasions that in Westeros, being

  • dead doesn't necessarily mean that a person has to stay this way. Aside from people who

  • die north of the wall that get turned into White Walkers, there's even another case of

  • resurrection that happened right in this very episode. The Mountain. The gigantic being

  • that gracefully carried Cercei to safety after her walk of shame is Ser Gregor Clegane, who

  • has most likely been resurrected by Qyburn through the use of blood magic after the mortal

  • wounds that he got from his fight with The Red Viper in Season 4.

  • But if we think back a bit - in Season 3, Arya Stark meets Berric Dondarrion, the leader

  • of the Brotherhood without banners. And we learn and even see after his brutal demise

  • in his trial by combat with Sandor Clegane aka "The Hound", that he has been killed and

  • revived several times already - by Thoros of Myr, a red priest who invokes the powers

  • of the "Lord of Light" to bring Berric Dondarrion back from the dead.

  • And there is yet another MAJOR character that has been revived by Thoros of Myr. But this

  • is something that happened only in the books so far. So if you want to avoid another major

  • spoiler - click this link to skip this part.

  • I'm taking of course about Lady Stoneheart - or none other than Caitlin Stark, who is

  • thought to be deader than dead after the Red Wedding, but reappears in "A Feast for Crows".

  • So yeah - these people prove that priests of the Lord of Light have the power to bring

  • back the dead. And who is another, no - not just another - but THE most prominent Red

  • Priest on the show? That's Right - Lady Melisandre, the fiendish

  • redheaded woman at the side of Stannis Baratheon who's favourite activity is to burn people

  • - and even children alive. And we even see her in Season 3 being in cahoots

  • with Thoros of Myr and the Brotherhood without Banners.

  • And conveniently, just about a few minutes before the stabbing of Jon Snow, she reappears

  • at the wall - having left Stannis Baratheon's side for the first time in many many seasons.

  • And she even has a very strong incentive to resurrect the Bastard of Winterfell.

  • First, there's the question of Jon's significance to the overall story. The mystery of who Jon's

  • mother is has long been teased, and most fans think they've figured it out - check this

  • video by The Film Theorists for more details on that. The gist of it is, that his parents

  • are Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark. George R.R. Martin has promised the answer will be

  • revealed eventually. But - What would the answer matter if Jon was already dead? Nothing.

  • In addition to that, the books have extensively set up a prophecy believed by followers of

  • the Lord of Lightthat a promised hero, Azor Ahai, would return and save the world

  • from darkness. Melisandre thinks most of the time that this hero is Stannisbut in

  • one late chapter of "A Dance With Dragons" she searches for him in the magical flames,

  • but can't find him - and says "All I see is Snow" � and it's written with a capital

  • S. If Jon's father is in fact Rhaegar Targaryen, that would mean he's the blood of the dragon,

  • as well as a Stark � a fitting lineage for a mystical hero in a series called A Song

  • of Ice and Fire.

  • And Melisandre shows on another occasion that she is aware that there's King's Blood in

  • Jon's veins. Because throughout the series, she has seduced pretty much every person with

  • King's Blood she came across - she even showed that she's able to sense Robert Baratheon's

  • blood in Gendry - noone, not even Gendry himself knew about his father at that time - and in

  • the Episode "Sons of the Harpy" in Season 5, she tries to seduce Jon - coincidence?

  • I think not. So, will we see Jon Snow being revived by Melisandre in Season 6?Who knows?

  • But there is yet another way that George R. R. Martin has teased in the book, through

  • that a person can escape death. And that one is: Warging. In The prologue

  • of A Dance With Dragons a wildling, Varamyr Sixskins, who could enter the minds of animals

  • was killed and his consciousness simply transcended into his wolf. Readers believe that Martin

  • focused on this character in the prologue to establish what happens to a warg when he

  • dies - for later reincorporation. Even The show depicted this already, when the eagle-controlling

  • wildling Orell was killed by Jon back in season threehis eyes turned white, and the eagle

  • suddenly began attacking Jon.) And in the books, Jon had numerous dreams

  • in which his mind entered his direwolf Ghost's bodyjust like his brother Bran. He can't

  • do it consciously, but it shows that he does indeed possess the powers of a warg - a skill

  • that is often associated with Starks. And, conveniently, when Jon is killed, Ghost is

  • nowhere nearbyJon had left him in his room for some contrived reason. And the last

  • word he says in the book is "Ghost".

  • So, yes, there are two very plausible ways in which the show could resurrect Jon Snow

  • - and as you see there's a lot in the series that points to that very fact - that Gam e

  • of Thrones' fifth season finale isn't the end of Jon Snow.

  • But even more than that, it's George R.R. Martin, that mischievous, backstabbing trickster

  • himself - who enjoys spreading confusion among his fans more than anything else. Right after

  • the release of "A Dance with Dragons", we was being asked by fans: "Why did you kill

  • Jon Snow?" To which he responeded: "Oh, you think he's

  • dead, do you? - I'm not going to address whether he'd dead or not." And then I picture him,

  • rubbing his hands and chuckling, amused like The Bridge Troll in Monty Python and the Holy

  • Grail.

  • Now, this could all be completely wrong. Because in the end, it's just a theory. A TV show

  • theory... (okay, I'm sorry about that)

  • So thanks for watching Monsters of the Week. And remember - the truth - is out

  • there.

So Game of Thrones' season finale is over and it pretty much contained more cliffhangers

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