The only surprise was that Melisandre survived. After the age thing last week, I thought she’d do a Lord Beric and die after giving Jon the kiss of life. If she’s 400 years old, and looks every day of it, it’ll be hard to turn her back into a sex symbol. That would be creepy even for HBO. At that point, she loses much of her utility for HBO storylines, unless GRRM has yet another big contribution in mind before she’s done.
Now he needs to find a huge supply of the Valerian steel to forge into weapons to stop the White Walkers.
I’ve never seen this show, but find the name John Snow curiously similar to the name of the British Airborne Battalion commander at Arnhem, John Frost (portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in, “A Bridge Too Far”). The real Frost later retired as a general officer and served as an advisor to the film. Anybody familiar with GOT....are there any parallels between the characters other than the similarity of the names?
Even before last night’s appalling display, I’ve said Ramsay Snow is the most diabolical character I’ve ever seen on screen.
What ever happened to Robert Baratheon’s bastard son who set sail on the ship in season 2?
If I were continuing the series I would write that the little black haired baby that Cersei miscarried is John Snow and that she and Eddard Stark had a secret tryst. To keep Robert from finding out, Eddard had to take the baby away and claim it was his bastard with another woman.
Or another line I might write is that Cersei had an affair with or was raped by a Targaryen and Snow was the offspring of that and Eddard helped hide Snow’s identity to keep Robert on the throne and keep Robert from murdering the child.
I will just have to wait for George R.R. Martin’s Winds of Winter and Dreams of Spring.