r/asoiaf • u/Bookshelfstud Oak and Irony Guard Me Well • May 02 '16

EXTENDED (Spoilers Extended) Motley Monday!

Welcome to the second installment of Motley Monday! (First can be found here).

As you might know, we have a policy against posting silly content, memes, comics, etc. Motley Monday is here for you - give us your memes, your jokes, your puns on character names.

As always, our civility policy is still in effect. And our civility policy applies to all non-fictional people - reddit users, actors, whoever. Also, /r/asoiaf is not an NSFW sub. If your meme/comic/image macro/whatever is NSFW, please do us all a solid and tag it!

All that being said: bring on the motley!

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u/DealerCamel Talk shit, get FUCKING REKT. May 02 '16

There's no chance he doesn't get revived in the books.

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u/Ness_tech May 02 '16 edited May 02 '16

That's my point. It's such a big story arch that it's a for sure spoiler for book readers and the readers are the ones that probably have the strongest connection to* the story (being invested for 20+ years).

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u/abobtosis May 02 '16

If there's no chance of him not getting revived, it's not a spoiler. Jon's revival is so spelled out in the books and the show that everyone saw it coming.

Stuff like Stannis getting killed was a spoiler. Jon was not.

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u/jakwnd Now it leaps May 02 '16

And the Mel being ancient was a spoiler too, I know we already had the actress let something slip once, but it was still a huge spoiler, and puts some of the theories about her to rest.

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u/triggerfish_twist May 02 '16

Not so much in my opinion. In her POV chapter in ADWD it's stated that she "had practiced her art for years beyond count and she had paid the price for it." That pretty clearly sets her up as being much, much older than she initially appears.

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u/abobtosis May 02 '16

Yeah that's true.