This post includes discussion of content from Sunday night’sGame of Thronesepisode “Oathbreaker.”
Jon Snow made some key decisions in Sunday’sGame of Thrones.
First, he executed the Night’s Watch mutineers including teenage Olly.
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“He’s done with it,” Harington says of Jon Snow and the Night’s Watch.
This place betrayed him, and everything he stood for has changed.
Plus, he had to kill a child, Olly, and that’s what really does it.
He kills an underage kid and he can’t see the point in being up there anymore.
As we saw inGame of Thrones very first episode, quitting the Night’s Watch is an executable offense.
But the Night’s Watch creed specifically reads, “Night gathers, and now my watch begins.
“He needs to change.
There’s a brilliant line when Melisandre asks: What did you see?'
And he says: Nothing, there was nothing at all.'
That cuts right to our deepest fear, that there’s nothing after death.
And that’s the most important line in the whole season for me.
Jon’s never been afraid of death, and that’s made him a strong and honorable person.
He realizes something about his life now: He has to live it because that’s all there is.
He’s been over the line and there’s nothing there.
And that changes him.
It literally puts the fear of God into him.
He’s seen oblivion, and that’s got to change somebody in the most fundamental way there is.
He doesn’t want to die ever again.
But if he does, he doesn’t want to be brought back.”
And be sure to read ourfull Kit Harington cover story going behind the scenesof Jon Snow’s revival.
