Episode 8 of “Game of Thrones” Season 5 aired on June 7 with more than half of it focused on Jon Snow as he joined the wildings in battling and trying to ward off the attacking white walkers in Hardhome.
It was a suspense-filled episode as viewers were wondering whether Jon Snow would make it alive considering the avalanche of the attacking white walkers who outnumber the wildings quite obviously.
Jon Snow even battled one of the leaders of the white walkers whom he defeated after a mighty struggle. Viewers were probably on the edge of their seats wondering if he will be killed or if he will defeat one of the white walker leaders.
Perhaps the viewers were thinking that after he defeats one of the leaders, the white walkers would retreat because there was a moment that seems to suggest that it would head towards that direction.
It turns out that it was just a calm before the storm as soon after, the main leader of the white walkers ordered an all-out attack and the wildings Hardhome camp was overrun after a few minutes, forcing Jon Snow and the rest of the remaining wildings to retreat and board the remaining boats and leave the place via the sea.
Just as they were leaving, the leader of the white walkers went to the pier and raised the dead once again including the wildings who got killed increasing their numbers some more as Jon Snow and the remaining wildings watch in fear.
Obviously, it was not the last of the encounter between the white walkers and Jon Snow since he is the Lord Commander of the Night Watch and he and his brothers would surely face them in the future.
Dead or alive?
Since “Game of Thrones” has been known as a series which usually kills off a major character every now and then, viewers are now asking whether Jon Snow will survive Season 5 alive.
In a recent interview, Kit Harrington, the actor who plays Jon Snow, said that no one is safe in “Game of Thrones” including himself or Tyrion Lannister, or any other main cast member of the show, and that’s what makes the series a really good drama.
However, fans of the series and also Jon Snow should be happy to know that Kit is one of the six actors whose contracts have been renewed all the way up to the end of Season 6 of “Game of Thrones,” details the Express of UK.
Hanging by the knife edge
In the fifth book titled “A Dance with Dragons” of the fantasy novel series “A Song of Ice and Fire,” the fate of Jon Snow was left hanging as he was brutally stabbed by his brothers in a vicious ambush. It is not clear if he will have the same fate at the end of Season 5 of “Game of Thrones.”
For all we know he needs to die in order to fulfill his destiny. Only 1 more week to go.
How and why? really wanna know
Most people expect him to survive the stabbing in the books, or be revived from it, so this wouldn’t really be a change.
I read somewhere that Jon Snow is also perhaps a Warg. Haven’t read the books but I guess they insinuate from what I read. Perhaps the trauma awakens it in him as it did in Brandon.
The books do more than insinuate that Jon is a warg. He is most definitely a warg. And so are all of his half-brothers and sisters. Arya instinctively skinchanges into a cat, for example, when she loses one of her other senses. The wildlings often regard Jon as a skinchanger, and Jon’s abilities are one of the reasons Qhorin Halfhand wanted him along with him. No trauma is necessary to awaken the abilities. They naturally have them. The abilities seem to be connected with the old powers awakening in the world again.
In the books, Jon has wolf dreams just like Bran does and he’s able to exert some limited control over Ghost while he’s sleeping. He also has the occasional prophetic dream. This connection they share is always there. Before climbing over the Wall with the wildlings, Jon sends Ghost back to Castle Black. While he directly tells Ghost where to go, subconsciously he most likely told Ghost where to go and how to get there as well. And sure enough, Ghost meets up with him again on the other side of the Wall.
In the show, only Bran is a warg.