Posted on 12/26/2015 6:18:55 AM PST by Bender2
5 Questions That Will Hopefully Get Answered In Season 6 of 'Game Of Thrones'
Game of Thrones is coming! New episodes of HBO's epic fantasy drama is set to return in April. And that intel makes me all kinds of happy. Like Oberyn Martell in a brothel, happy. Also, with the release of the season 6's teaser trailer - my brain has gone into hyper-drive imagining all of the the twist and turns this next season can possibly take. This has also lead me to explore the fact that I have so many unanswered questions about the Season 6 of Game of Thrones.
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Here are the questions I still have for the upcoming season of Game of Thrones. Fingers crossed they are answered.
If Jon Snow is Alive, How Did That Happen?
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My answer is Melisandre, "The Red Woman," will bring Jon back to life.
Remember back in Season 3: Beric Dondarrion-- Lord of Blackhaven, nicknamed "The Lightning Lord," the leader of the outlaw group "Brotherhood without Banners." He was the one with the ability to light his sword on fire using his blood. Beric was killed by The Hound but was resurrected by his friend and defrocked priest Thoros who uses the magic of a Red God prayer.
So, just after half of Stannis' forces desert him, "The Red Woman" is dismayed and disgusted. She abandons Stammis and rides to Castle Black at the Wall that puts her in the right place at the right time--
As Season 6 begins, an opening shot has her at Castle Black hearing Jon Snow being murdered by Ser Alliser Thorne and his "For the Watch!" cohorts. After Olly delivers the last stab on Jon, they all walk off to leave him to bleed out in the snow. That is where Melisandre comes into the scene and she says the Red God prayer that Thoros used to revive Beric.
With Jon now alive again, he is free to leave the Black and go off to avenge the Starks.
When a magnificent knight... 
appears to save the day--
And make sure there is only One True King... 
to sit on the Iron Throne and rule all the Seven Kingdoms!
Okay, any... 
thoughts?
He couldn't be any worse.... 
than my family.
And he does have a very cute... 
and shiny metal ass!
If Jon Snow is Alive, How Did That Happen?
Yes, Jon is alive, Melisandre will bring him back to life with her magic.
Will We Ever See Gendry Again?
I think so, since he the only surviving heir to the throne, although a bastard by birth.
Will There Be More Violence Against Women?
I would expect there to be.
Will Arya Stay Blind?
Of course not, she’s got some death to dole out.
When Does This Winter Stuff Happen?
Um... it’s already happening... did you not see the end of the season? undead attacking ect?
Bad article, with poor questions, in my opinion.
Can’t wait! What’s the date it resumes?
Wow. Don’t let reality ruin your life.
I agree, Melisandre is how it happens. I don't like that God of hers, it ate that poor cute little girl, but he can bring people back to life. Roose Bolton is a better father than Stannis (in the show at least, in the books his daughter has not been harmed).
There is zero chance that Jon Snow is permanently dead. The actor was seen in Belfast where they film and he's too important to the story.
If he dies for keeps it will be at or near the end.
Spoiler alert: In White scroll over to see I didn't think of R+L=J myself but once I read about it I was like "duh". I would be shocked if it wasn't true. I think either Jon or Dany will die and the other will sit the Iron Throne. Cute as she is Dany is a horrible ruler so I hope it's Jon on the throne.
I have seen a lot of articles like this about GOT and other shows, same stupid graphics. Must be the same people behind them. They are awful.
Try reading the books.
GRRM likes surprises, but I do not get the impression that he likes cheesy surprises. He wants events to flow from the characters and the logic of the plot, and he has worked hard to plant clues, prophecies, and false trails galore. This is why the story is so layered. He is now five books into a very complex, "dare you to figure it out" plot. If any of this has meaning, his options are being steadily reduced as he grinds to the end. Jon Snow and Dany kinda, sorta have to be in at the endgame unless GRRM is willing to tell fans, "Yeah, the first five books were all a red herring, and the real action has been offstage. You read 3,000 pages for nothing. Surprise, surprise."
It's late in the game to pull a new riddle-answering principal out of thin air. The options are dwindling (dying, mostly). Young Griff/Aegon seems to have been bypassed in the tv version. Since the tv and book versions are supposed to converge at the end, there would be some serious catchup to do if Young Griff/Aegon has a future. Bran, Rickon, Tyrion, Arya, Sansa, Jamie, and perhaps Benjen Stark (and just barely conceivably, Stannis) need to be sorted out, but they are all established characters. Aside from Howland Reed, it's getting hard to imagine a not-yet-introduced character changing the main story arc very much -- unless, again, GRRM is willing to play his readers for chumps and introduce a complete late-game wild card as the game changer.
Since “Aegon” isn’t in the show and won’t be (not this season and they gave Jon Connington’s stoneflesh to Mormont so probably never) I think he’s probably a fake who won’t have much relevance when all is said and done. I don’t know who’ll ride the 3rd dragon though if not him.
The show will start spoiling the books now, lol.
Being heavily spoiled didn’t dampen my enjoyment watching (or reading) though.
Jon Snow is dead. Azor Ahai is alive again!
That's my guess, at least.
Melisandre doesn’t have any friends at the Wall or Wildlings (she kinda burned a favorite), and admitted most of her power is from the equivalent of magic tricks designed to recruit for her religion.
She had to get to the Wall for a reason. She convinced Stannis to burn his only child (TV version, but the end result will be the same), which resulted in the majority of his forces abandoning him out of disgust and the dire situation he put them in.
Melisandre doesn’t have a practical use for John Snow. In fact, she made his death more probable, taking out two birds with one stone.
GRRM is very predictable. Look for clues in actual history. ;)
I expect you are right about the show writing out Aegon, but it’s a big disconnect. In the books, Jon Connington and Aegon get the Golden Company to Westeros and open the War of the Targaryen Restoration while Dany is still wandering around in horse country. Since the Golden Company is composed of exiles and the sons of exiles, its participation implies a network of potential supporters in Westerous and scrambles what we think we understand about the politics of the great houses as old Blackfyre connections are revived. The show (and for all I know, Books Six and Seven) may dispense with all that, but there is a lot of potential there that is being left on the cutting room floor.
“Melisandre doesn’t have a practical use for John Snow.”
She does actually. Cause Stannis ain’t her hero, she knows that in the show now (she left him to die, almost made me feel sorry for him) and is fixating on Snow in the books, seeing him in her visions. Her hero is supposed to be “reborn”.
Most of her magic is illusion, yes, some think she’s really an old crone with a magical disguise! But that other Red Priest demonstrated the power of resurrection, seems the obvious course.
If Snow were really dead for good I don’t see where the story on the wall has anywhere to go besides White Walkers breaking though and killing all the Night’s Watch. Fat boy left, there are no other major characters up there. ‘
HBO loves this, people speculating!
Just curious. Do you think Melisandre had a practical use for Stannis? If her real business is beyond the Wall and the search for Azor Ahai is a sham (or if she already knows AA is someone else), why did she spend so much time with SB?
Doesn’t she have a use for royal blood or something?
Freegards
When I started reading the first thing I noticed was how simplified the show was. Combined characters and such. Getting to the same place by a somewhat different route. Stuff they cut resulting in different plots for some characters.
Much less dense with the noble houses and some of the battles.
Personally being a political junkie even for fictional medieval politics, I love all that stuff!
I think he is alive.
It is worth reading A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and GRRM's "history" of Westeros for various other backstories that are not explored in the tv show, and only hinted at in the books. Whether there is anything left of the Blackfyre underground after five failures -- other than the Golden Company -- is an open question. But still, the prequel stories give an idea of the depth and duration of the intrigues that are rattling around in GRRM's head.
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