SPOILERS for last night’s season finale of Game of Thrones.

I did the full recap of the season finale earlier – go here to read. This post is just specifically about the “death” of one particular character. One character who we thought was really, really important. One character who we thought would survive because it would make no sense if he did not survive. That character? Jon Snow, who knows nothing. Isn’t Jon Snow too important to die? Isn’t Jon Snow the product of Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen? Isn’t he the song of ice and fire? Doesn’t he eventually have to meet up with Dany? WHAT IS HAPPENING?

Well, different people are saying different things. To hear George RR Martin tell it, you’d think that there’s still a possibility that Jon Snow could survive. But Kit Harington wants you to know that Jon Snow is DEAD. Dan Weiss and David Benioff want you to know that Jon Snow is dead too. WTF? Here’s what some of Kit had to say:

Kit Harington likes that Jon is dead: “Like every season, you read something in the script and go, “Oh f–k.” I kind of knew it was coming. I didn’t read [George R.R. Martin’s novel] A Dance with Dragons. But I read the other books and I had heard this is what happens. So I had an inkling it should be this season. I didn’t realize it would be the final shot of the season and that made it extra special. It’s always kind of nice really when you’re the last thing that happens in that episode. I dunno, I loved it. I loved how they brought Olly in to be the person who kills me. I love how the storyline with Thorne was wrapped up. I think it was really well crafted by [showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss]. It felt like the right way for it to happen.

Kit on Jon Snow’s parents: “But we have to go by what Thrones does. And Thrones treats drama as real life. And people die and don’t accomplish what we think they’re meant to in real life. And I think that’s one of the powerful things about Thrones. The major loss with Jon’s through-line is he never finds out who his mother is and that’s the heartbreaking thing for me.”

Kit on Jon really, really being dead: “This is my understanding of it. I had a sit-down with Dan and David, we did the Tony Soprano walk [letting an actor know they’re being whacked]. And they said, “Look, you’re gone, it’s done.” And as far as the salary thing goes, that angered me when that story came out. I don’t know where it came from, but it was inaccurate in many ways. It’s going to put questions into your head and into fans’ heads that things are not what they are. Quite honestly, I have never been told the future of things in this show, but this is the one time I have. They sat me down and said, “This is how it is.” If anything in the future is not like that, then I don’t know about it – it’s only in David and Dan and George’s heads. But I’ve been told I’m dead. I’m dead. I’m not coming back next season. So that’s all I can tell you, really.”

[From Entertainment Weekly]

So Kit Harington isn’t going to appear in Game of Thrones next season. He’s saying that outright. Jesus! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?

EW also spoke to Dan Weiss, who said “Dead is dead. We would hope that after seeing the scene and the way it’s shot that the answer to that will be unambiguous in the minds of the people watching it. It should be pretty clear what happens in by the time you’re done seeing that scene. It’s not an, ‘Oh what just happened scene?’” But George RR Martin tells EW, “If there’s one thing we know in A Song of Ice and Fire is that death is not necessarily permanent.”

Is it possible that Weiss and Benioff are just massively trolling everyone and that by the end of Season 6, Jon Snow will be back in some form? Is Jon going to turn into a White Walker? WHERE IS GHOST? Melisandre seems to have some idea that Jon Snow has “king’s blood” too, so it feels like she’s going to be in the mix somewhere. And I pretty much think that Kit is flat-out lying about not appearing in Season 6 at all.

GAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH.

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