Despite season five of Game of Thrones being rather lackluster (I’m looking at you, ineffectual and sporadically naked Sand Snakes), season six is ramping up to be LIT as FUCK. First off we got Sansa doing….well, nothing because she sucks. But we also have Arya, who’s training to be a deadly assassin with the end of her schooling nowhere near in sight soooo okay yeah that plotline kind of sucks too maybe. Hm. Come to think of it we don’t have much left in terms of interesting plot lines to follow, do we?
In fact the only plots worth watching at this point are Jon Snow’s and Bran’s, and the only reason I say Bran is because we haven’t seen him for a year so he must’ve been doing SOMETHING interesting, right? Dude can’t just be crying in a tree like Sansa cried in a castle for 10 episodes, and as for Jon Snow…well, he’s definitely alive so he’s got that whole “undead zombie” thing going for him which should be interesting. And before you start spouting off about how Jon Snow is definitely 100% dead, pump your brakes: In an interview with Digital Spy, Kit Harrington (the actor who plays Jon Snow) pooped out some deadly truth buttnuggets of wisdom with regards to Jon Snow’s fate:
“I was hoping that there would be an outcry of ‘why?’ and ‘oh god, no, no’ rather than ‘thank god.’ That was the right reaction as far as I was concerned! People didn’t want me to die, but he’s dead. So there you go, everyone has to get used to it.”(via)
Except in this case “dead” doesn’t mean “dead.” Harrington is trying to fool all the filthy casuals who only watch the show and don’t peruse message boards for theories, aka all the people who are dumb enough to actually think he’s dead. However if we go off of what Maisie Williams said, i.e. that there’s a major “twist” that happens to Jon Snow this season, it’s looking like we’ll get to have our cake and eat it too: he’s dead, AND alive because he’s technically UNdead. Oh semantics, how cagey actors and confidentiality agreements love thee.
[Via Digital Spy, H/T Uproxx]