MAJOR SPOILERS for the season finale of Game of Thrones

Unsurprisingly, people are still talking about the season finale of Game of Thrones. Specifically, they are talking about the death of Jon Snow and what it really means and if Jon is really dead and if Kit Harington is lying his ass off. As Kit told Entertainment Weekly flat-out, Jon Snow is dead and Kit will not be returning next season. OR WILL HE? I was reading lots of GoT conspiracies and some think that yes, Melisandre will resurrect him somehow and he will no longer go by Jon Snow (perhaps Jon Targaryen), that Kit and Carice have already shot those scenes and maybe Kit’s involvement will be minimal next season. I don’t know, we’re really grasping now, aren’t we? Anyway, Kit Harington Says (More) Words about the Death of Jon Snow.

What he wants for the audience reaction: “I hope it’s a real shock and a heartbreak, I really hope it is. It’s like Joffrey’s death or the Red Wedding. It’s a scene that we want to have that kind of impact; I found it to be really disturbing to shoot.”

Jon Snow was like Ned Stark? “Jon was very much like his father, very withheld. Very kind of, in the Old World sense, what a man should be.”

How Jon died: “I had wanted it to be a beautiful death, a release. But the way it unfolded, it was a huge betrayal and a gruesome death. It was an abrupt and brutal finish with no absolutely no peace for Jon in the end. He dies sad understanding that the last person to stab him is Olly, his steward…Jon had taken him under his wing and mentored the boy, but he forgets that this boy’s family has been murdered by wildlings. There’s a real loneliness at the end for Jon Snow. His greatest fault lies in that fact, that while he’s trying to deal with the horror headed in their direction, he’s neglected to see the politics around him. He was looking too much at the big picture and not paying enough attention to the small one — and that’s what got him killed.”

Jon Snow is really dead: “I’m quite dead. It’s over for Jon Snow — at the very least, he gets to join his family and kin and leave this terrible world behind.”

Why Jon died: “He makes the humanitarian choice. And just like his father, the moral choice gets him killed.”

[From the NYDN]

STOP REFERRING TO NED STARK AS YOUR FATHER. He was your uncle at best! I mean, in the sense that Ned loved him and raised him, yes, Ned was his father. But paternity is such a tricky thing in Westeros. Anyway, Kit is really selling the sadness, isn’t he? Damn him.

Variety also has a new interview with David Nutter, who directed “Mother’s Mercy” – go here to read. Nutter says, “I can say emphatically that Jon Snow is definitely dead.” But will he be resurrected? Nutter also says that Stannis is totally dead but they just didn’t want to show the death blow. And finally, he says it would be safe to assume that Sansa and Theon survived the jump. Sure.

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