For several utterly heart-wrenching months, speculation built around Jon Snow’s fate on Game Of Thrones. Hell, posters for the show were analysed to the nth degree, and sneaky clips of HBO‘s juggernaut even made sure to display Ned Stark‘s bastard the way we left him in Season 5: very, very dead.
Seriously. Outside of nuclear launch codes, or the whereabouts of bloody Gendry, few secrets have been kept outta the public eye quite so well.
Actor Kit Harington did indeed know something about it, though. Spoilers ahoy, but the bloke was clued in by the show’s head honchos that yep, the Night’s Watch Lord Commander would return to that frigid shithole in some way, shape or form, presumably to obliterate this little oxygen thief:
Well played, you undead lord:
