expect . What ?
This was all of us after that very last scene of tonight ’s ( amazingly shortsighted ! only 46 post - credit minutes ! ) sixth - season premiere of HBO’sGame of Thrones . Let ’s talk it out ! But before we get into it , we need to recite the run-in : pamperer alert !
If you do n’t need to know what fall out in tonight ’s episode , you should leave now and add up back when you ’re ready . While you ’re at it , peradventure take a moment to vote inour " Which dead character should return to Game of Thrones ? " bracket ?
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Okay , let ’s resume with a question : what the actual fuck just hap ?
After a mostly straightforward premiere that capture us up on the whereabouts of our former supporter –read our full recap here– the final vista shifted to an interior way at Castle Black and a moping Melisandre . She ’s so sad ! And so ready to disrobe …
The Red Woman take her dress off and the amulet around her neck . And then she looks in the mirror to disclose : old face !
What ’s going on with that , you involve , because you are a person , and anyone who is a individual is necessitate that ? Well , for one , it would be discrepant to say that off the amulet induce her to morph into a saggy sorceress – Melisandre has done that before and her pleasing Carice van Houton exterior has remained firmly ( pun intend ! ) in place .
And it ca n’t be that she ’s decided to give up and die . Can it ?
in all likelihood not . According to Centennial State - Maker D.B. Weiss in the inside - the - sequence extra post above , this is all about Melisandre allow the antecedently unthinkable to herself . " Her visual aspect is a lie , just as the Lord of Light ’s supposed promise and content to her were lies , " suppose Weiss . " At the end of installment 1 , she ’s in a place where she ask to search her substantial self in the eye , and come up to terms with where she stands now . "
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But where does Melisandre tolerate now ? Technically , she ’s rest – and not very far aside from the lifeless body of Jon Snow , with Alliser Thorne and his ring of mutineers banging down the room access . But liberal Melisandre reveals would seem to await us : Will she rekindle her honey for the Lord of Light ? Will she re - embrace her magic and attempt to rise the slain Lord Commander , to meet the prophesy foretold in her flames ? ( Although , quoth Jaime earlier in the episode : " Fuck prophesy ! " ) Is n’t that what we ’ve all been wait for months to encounter out ?
possibly Old Mel just needs to sleep it off . Thatwaskind of a foresightful 24-hour interval for her .
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John Sellers is the Entertainment Director at Thrillist and really did not like all that Dothraki bro talking tonight .
