Game Of Thrones Season 6: 10 Ups And 2 Downs From 'The Red Woman'

6. Jon Snow Is Still Dead

Game of Thrones Jon Snow Dead
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The show has been screaming this at us for the better part of a year now, and just incase no one was buying it they open the episode by showing us his corpse, hammering home that fact that he really is dead. If that really wasn't enough, Alliser Thorne even says those words, an in-show surrogate for the series' producers.

The episode continually reinforces this notion, as we get multiple shots of his dead body, and even Melisandre has seemingly accepted it as fact. Of course we know he's going to come back at some point, but it's a smart choice on behalf of the show not to answer that particular question immediately.

How smart it is depends on how long they leave it - if we get to episode 9 and they're still saying he's dead, then it's a bit ridiculous - but for now it feels like the right decision, when it would've been easy to give in to demand and bring him straight back. This way they're owning his death, and not allowing the cliffhanger to define the show.

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