How will Jon Snow be resurrected?

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[DaxGamer]

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[ieatmice]

I like the idea that he’ll get white hair and red eyes from his experience with death. It would show that he and Ghost are now one in the same. It would also link him closer to the weirwood trees and bloodraven

[tomlawless]

The show handled this plotline so pathetically it is unforgivable. This is precisely the moment the show began to unravel. He died, got resurrected, and then... Just carried on like nothing happened. The show had literally no idea where to go or what to do with this fundamental and monumental shift in the entire dynamic of the plot. Easier to just... kinda forget about the resurrection, I guess...

[reidcacaro]

7:12 another bit of foreshadowing is in one Sam’s chapters in feast Aemon talks about how the wall/cold preserves. When talking about how he started to rapidly decline after leaving the wall for bravos

[nandoman]

Dammit Robert now George R.R. Martin is gonna see that you already figured out his story and is gonna restart his entire book again.😂😭

[jde-jjlu]

Really brilliant theory of how things go down at the end Rob. If this was done in show I would love to see the camera focus in on Ghost’s red eyes as Jon’s spirit transfers back to his body, Ghost’s red eyes shut, and Jon, Azor’s eyes open glowing red.

[KungFuKenobi]

Loved the "this is how I would write it"
Would love to see more of that

[conors]

I would say John did change after getting resurrected in the show. He just became a fire white that could only say she’s my queen.

[scottytedrow]

Fantastic work, Robert! I really liked the “this is how I might write it”

[etg]

Maybe Jon, while inside Ghost, is drawn back to the wall and during the ritual attacks bowen marsh and drags him into the pyre. Ghost dies and Jon's spirit is pushed back into his body. Maybe this is helped by Bran or Bloodraven.

[KillCiked]

14:18 coming out the flames like Dany hatching the dragons in the show.

[standamannnnnn]

Thank you for continuing to make ASOIAF content!! Honestly, your uploads are always a treat, and especially so when its about Westeros!! Keep it up

[guyledouche]

Plot twist: George dies without ever finishing the books, but comes back to life and then finishes them in the year 2060.

[JB-yldc]

I like the thought that we will get the reveal that Jons body will be burned on a pyre and that this will coincide with the reveal that he is a Targaryen. That would be a good mirror to the "rebirth" of Dany and make them both a good fit for the prophesies.

[TerminaterX]

Jon being so close to a king’s blood sacrifice and a Red Preistess, having Ghost to warg into, and having his body stay fairly preserved, makes me think Jon will be the most ‘whole’ Wight we’ve seen.

[JosephNobles]

The two fire wights we have seen in ASOIAF did not need warg abilities to retain their personality and soul. Dondorrian and Lady Stoneheart both were recognizably themselves - albeit shadows. It's the ice wights that appear to lose any character or volition of their own. That's why I think Jon will not be raised until the Others draw near to the Wall and raise him, allowing Jon-in-Ghost to reclaim the wight body from them. If Jon is raised as a fire wight, though, perhaps he will have been dead so long that only Jon-in-Ghost would be able to overcome the reported lessening and obsessive purpose that Dondarrion reports and that we see so clearly in Stoneheart.

[LaLayla]

I know we all want WoW (and DoS), but if they had come out prior to the show's end, we probably would never had gotten all these awesome channels and theories. So, I won't complain (too much) since we get IDG's work. 🙂

[SEAKPhotog]

Terrific, intriguing analysis. Thanks.

[tfh]

I like the idea of Bran telling GhostxJon about his heritage and he's the stone dragon born of salt and smoke. Stone refers to not only him freezing like stone but its a parallel to the stone Starks in the crypts of WF. And I like your way of him being resurrected with the addition of someone giving his body Longclaw

[mohammeduddin]

*stubs my toe* "Dammit Bloodraven!"