Game of Thrones: ‘Jon Snow Is Dead,’ HBO Finally, Officially Confirms
For those of you still in the denial stage of grief following Jon Snow’s Game of Thrones fate, a new, official pronouncement from HBO should help move you along to the anger stage — and quickly.
“Jon Snow is dead,” the premium cabler states in its synopsis of the Season 6 premiere, putting an official seal on the most hotly contested TV death of 2015.
The episode’s description, distributed in a press release Thursday, also notes that “Daenerys meets a strong man” and “Cersei sees her daughter again.” But we’re mostly concerned with the part about the deceased Lord Commander, which seems to back up portrayer Kit Harington’s recent assertion that he only appears in the upcoming season in “scenes of me being dead.”
The state of Harington’s alter ego has been in dispute ever since Jon Snow was stabbed repeatedly by members of the Night’s Watch in the Season 5 finale. Though the episode’s final shot of Harington showed Jon bleeding copiously, several theories about the character’s survival — including some of our own — quickly sprang up, seemingly buttressed by the actor’s appearance in paparazzi photos from the set and his choice not to cut off Jon’s signature locks.
Perhaps we’ll know more when the premiere — titled “The Red Woman” — airs on Sunday, April 24 (9/8c). Until then, the night is dark and full of time for you to speculate about what’s ahead. So hit the comments and tell us what you’re thinking!
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Nah, he alive.
no he’s not. he’s dead. how long will he be dead though ??? don’t know. but dead, he is.
If its just a fake out, than this is an unnecessary cruel joke of an episode title. I would hope D&D and HBO wouldnt do that to their fans so fingers crossed…
It’s not the title, it’s the description. And technically, it’s accurate since Jon really IS dead. But he will be resurrected at some point.
I agree. I fully expect that we will only see Jon snow dead in the first show and he will be resurected in the final minutes of episode 10
I don’t know about the 10th episode, but it’ll happen in one of the last 3 episodes likely
I don’t even watch the show (but for some reason read articles about it…), and based on what little I know would read that as [Everybody assumes] Jon is dead, rather than as a definitive statement of his death.
Nah, Ginny, it’s like this: He is literally and genuinely dead and so the show runners and actors can declare it so. However, there is a religion on the show with priests and priestesses that can resurrect people. Present at the place where he is dead is a priestess of this religion named Melisandre. Coincidence? No. :)
Book readers, while the series and the books are at the same place, also know he is not permanently dead because of various prophesies that point at him, as well as clear hints that Jon Snow’s parentage is not what it appears to be, making him incredibly relevant to the, er, Game of Thrones.
Which is probably more than you wanted to know, but the “Jon is dead” thing is not a fake out based on assumptions of other characters, but a fake out based on a overly literal answer to the cliffhanger.
I agree with you and DO hope you are right. I truly hope that David and DB are not cutting off their nose to spite their face, just to be able to say “Ha! We told you so. NO ONE tells US how to write our show.”
The character of Jon Snow is SO important to so many plot lines that would be left hanging, if he were truly dead, that you would have to be pretty spiteful…or pretty dumb to actually make it permanent.
I don’t think either of those things are true, so, there is still hope.
Maybe he’s a targarian, (neds sis and the targarian Prince) it’s a common theory. If so targarians can be resurrected by fire (danerys) and guess what the nights watch does to dead bodies? Yep, they burn them
He is the son or robert baratheon and caatelyn stark.
Thank you MichelleR. You put that so eloquently.
I am green John’s father was actually Robert Baratheon that’s where I come from anyway something not quite right Dodge start coming home with an illegitimate son more likely he took home the illegitimate son of his best friend and that is why the red lady and so interested and Jon Snow You Know Nothing Jon Snow not even who your father is.
just take a minute to think about what was said. “John Snow is dead”, but that doesn’t mean he is off the show. It means he is returning as something else. This is why we can’t have smart creative series and movies because so many people lack any type of common sense to understand. It all has to be laid out for the dumb people so they don’t break the internet complaining. What should happen is before a series is released they should release the entire bible and scripts for the public so that they will know where everything happens in the story. Who needs creativity when you have to appease the less intelligent?
Lmao, love your comment. Pretty much took the words out of my mouth, haha.
The character of Jon Snow is indeed dead, he comes back as someone / something else….so HBO “technically” hasn’t lied….very Clinton-esqe
Haha good one
It’s insane how many people can’t just accept that he’s dead and not coming back. The show has killed major characters since the beginning. This isn’t a surprise.
Maybe because all sign point to HE’S NOT DEAD!! When they are done they usually land some other role after. He on the other hand worked only until they started shooting again. Has been spotted multiple times on set and yes the biggest one. We are a year or more from his “death” and he still has the hair. So yeah he’s not dead. The character is dead.
He’s currently Doctor Faustus in the West End in London (and with Jon Snow’s signature locks). Hopefully just because they’re not filming for now!
Sure, they have. But the other characters didn’t have so much foreshadowing about death and return in both book and show as Snow has. “Kill the boy And let the man be born…” Jon Snow may be dead. That doesn’t mean Melisandre (with or without the help of another red priest) won’t bring him back and he lives as Jon Stark. He’s also foreshadowed with overlays to Azor Ahai – who was brought back from the dead.
Yes, but GRRM has said the show would go where the books are planned to go… And I don’t see him truly killing Jon Snow.
I believe there was a set of notes released where GRRM mentioned that for sure Jon Snow, Sansa, Arya, Daenerys, (and I think Tyrion) are all alive at the end of the series. Whether or not he sticks to that…
True, Allison, he has said that. Both he and the show runners, however, have also said that ultimately they will end up in the same spot at the end. D & B have been given GRRM’s rough outline of where things are going to ultimately come to when all is said and done and they’re going to meander their way to that point. Having read what’s released thus far, I find it hard to believe Jon isn’t part of that final mix. He was left dead as a door nail at the end of Book 5 too. That doesn’t mean he stays dead. The foreshadowing in that book alone is enough to make you think he’ll be back.
I’m not one of those people that likes to say “Well in the books” because I think it’s fine that people enjoy the show on its own without reading the books. In this case, however, it’s having read the books that leads me to believe he might not be dead. There were multiple characters brought back from the dead by the red priests. It hasn’t really been used as much in the series (and one major resurrection was left out) but I find it interesting that of ALL the places she might have gone when she left Stannis, Melisandre returned to Castle Black.
Yes, the show has killed major characters, as have the books, but this particular character has a ridiculous amount of foreshadowing in the books indicating he is in the top 3 most important characters.
George RR Martin messed with people’s perceptions to surprised them with Ned’s death and Robb’s death, but Jon is different because of his likely parentage, because of prophesies that could refer to only him, because Martin has showed at least two different ways dead doesn’t have to be permanent.
It’s not naivete or stupidity; it is understanding subtext and foreshadowing.
And of course time will tell. :)
Yeah…. starting a synopsis with “Jon Snow is dead” is not “finally, officially” anything. He is dead, doesn’t mean he’ll stay dead or not be reanimated in some way.
Set photos busted up this mystery months ago.
Of course he’s dead. He’s just not going to stay that way.
Agreed. Ian McShane has stated that his character, only on one episode, is there primarily to resurrect one character. Don’t much see the sense in bringing back Myrcella or Stannis, so I think it’s Jon
Nah, he’s not in The Wall’s storyline. Ian’s character is supposed to “bring back” The Hound (which wouldn’t even count as resurrect since we never saw him die).
Very good chance we could be looking at a resurrection for lady stoneheart maybe?
but what if it’s like Gage in Pet Cemetery and Jon Snow was just better off dead?
Jon Snow quote: ” I fight for the side, that fights for the living”
Are you f*#king serious with emailing this to people? Unsubscribed from both your emails and the entire site.
This is some intense anger, and perhaps a bit of an overreaction? This simply re-states an official announcement from HBO (stated clearly in an announcement) and is not a spoiler from TVLine. But by all means, feel free to stay angry.
If you watch the show a season behind, as many people do, it’s a huge spoiler.
Well then that’s a side-effect of not keeping up with the show. Why should every website be required to cater to people that watch a year late? A week or two after it airs is courteous, but still not required. If it’s aired in all time zones, it’s no longer a spoiler.
Come on, it’s been 10 months.
Ok and?? There are many, many shows I’m behind in. But I don’t expect every website, magazine and news outlet to shut up until I’ve seen it. Why? Because I’m 31 years old and way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way too old be be angry about spiolers.
Just because someone says it doesn’t make it so. This person is a nobody just wanting his name on the internet.
He is dead. The JON SNOW who died is not the same JON SNOW Melisandre will resurrect.
I think Jon Snow will be shown to be alive later but maybe in the premiere we are led to believe he’s dead.Then Jon Snow has to recover from his injuries and plan his next move offscreen for a few episodes.
I was thinking this as well. I can envision all of us (viewers) vainly trying to accept his death in Ep. 1. Then in a later episode, the entire viewing universe shouting, “I knew he wasn’t dead!”
They only stabbed him. He wasn’t beheaded, burned alive or poisoned, and his head wasn’t crushed like a grape. Which leaves the possibility of resurrection entirely probable.
Of course he’s dead, until the “Red Woman” brings him back…
Yeah, he’s dead. But he’s not staying dead. Mel’s going to resurrect him by the end of the premiere. Nothing to see here, move along.
He IS dead, deceased, no longer alive. But, we see that death, while usually permenant, is not neccesarily so. I suspect that Mellisandre does a Beric Dondarrion and brings him back to life.
Well that just sucks!
Jon Snow is dead. Jon Stark lives.
More likely Jon Targaryen as he was Rhaegar and Lyanna starks son. Or is a common theory anyways.
I’ve seen the dead rising on this show…so he may be dead but he’s not staying dead! I don’t care if they have to bring in the Lazarus Pit to bring him back, Jon Snow is not going to stay dead!!
That means nothing, Jon Snow.
I call bull—-
Nope, still not buying it. Jon is dead. And all statements to that end aren’t a surprise. But none of the “Jon is dead” rhetoric says “and he’s not going to be resurrected.” (As was Beric Dondarrion, Lady Stoneheart (book only) )
You know nothing TV Line!!!
“Turns out he’s only mostly dead”. Actually, much as Thoros of Myr repeatedly returned life to Beric Dondarrion and later Lady Stoneheart through the power of Rh’llor, so can Melisandre do the same with said “deceased” lord commander. It’s not misdirection per se, it’s just only mostly true.
Yes, he IS dead. Most of us haven’t been denying that. The part HBO left off is, “but he’ll be resurrected.” **Don’t keep reading if you don’t want spoilers** Kit Harrington was spotted filming a battle scene in Stark armor in the North/Winterfel, there are pictures. He couldn’t do that if Jon was dead the entire season. He’ll be resurrected by Melisandre within the first three episodes. I’d put money on it.
This is so stupid lol everyone knows that he is dead and that melissandre brings him back
If “Jon Snow” as much as I wish something could be done ain’t really coming back, I sincerely wonder why I shouldn’t get tired already. Too many good characters killed already,& snow? *smh*
I don’t believe this for a second Jon Snow will be resurrected by Melisandre who is known as “The Red Woman” so if he’s not alive yet in Ep. 1 then probably the 2nd or 3rd. Besides the actor or actress have to show up on set as the dead body most of the time anyways.
Agree Tywin was a dead body for one scene, Kit would’ve filmed death scenes already and been able to cut his hair. Melisandre being at Castle black and in the room with his body and Davos does point to them temporarily teaming up to get Jon resurrected.
I’m not sure why this is news. Hasn’t HBO and everyone affiliated with the show been saying he’s dead since the episode aired?
Jon Snow headlines must drive a ton of traffic, because anytime Kit Harington sneezes it’s reported on a hundred websites.
Jon Snow is dead, and MUST die to be reborn as the true Azor Azai, King of the North, and the third head of the dragon. Yes, the character is dead. But Harrington will play him in another incarnation.
We have then to be prepred for the possibility that it may be a different actor & not Harrington!