Another episode, another recap with Jon Snow mentioned in the first sentence. He\u2019s doing quite well for a dead body; he\u2019s up and about and frowning at the people who stabbed him in the heart. That\u2019s quite impressive considering he\u2019s been frozen with rigor mortis since last April. The Night\u2019s Watch now think he\u2019s some sort of god, mainly because the camera is more interested in him than anyone else, but also because the wounds in his chest make him look significantly more holy.<\/p>\n
The Red Woman can\u2019t believe it worked. Her shocked expression resembles that of a bullshitting drunk who told their mates they could \u00a0do a backflip and then surprised their self by actually pulling it off. If it wasn\u2019t clear enough that Jon is some sort of chosen prince, she outright affirms it, with all the subtlety of a TV show that has overtaken its source material.<\/p>\n
What did occur to me is that almost every character not at The Wall is completely unaware that Jon was ever dead, let alone brought back to life. Samwell Tarly is on a boat with Gilly and her baby and is still talking about him as if nothing\u2019s happened. That\u2019ll surely make for some awkward conversation when he returns and asks if he missed anything.<\/p>\n
And what about Bran Stark? You\u2019d think he\u2019d be in the know with all these visions of his family\u2019s past he keeps having. In this episode he enjoys a Phantom Menacey sword fight, involving a young Ned Stark and several expendable berks. The fact that the scene\u2019s real focus is on his sister, Lyanna, is bound to excite theorists to the point of autoerotic asphyxiation. If it\u2019s not a hint towards Jon Snow\u2019s real parentage then I\u2019m a eunuch.<\/p>\n
Consider that Lyanna Stark is his mother and Rhaegar Targaryen is his father, it then seems too convenient that this scene is followed by Danaerys\u2019s storyline. She would technically be his auntie, which, if they embraced the Game of Thrones culture of incest, still wouldn\u2019t be the weirdest relationship we\u2019ve seen on the show. Just the most complicated one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"