As for Jon and warging (Udog), that's an interesting thought that I didn't even consider. Given how important the Starks' connection is to their direwolves, as a symbol of their own self/identity, and given my previous assumption that the fate of the direwolf usually outlines the fate of that Stark child, AND, given that we didn't see a glimpse of Ghost as Jon lay there bleeding to death....I can totally see that coming into play.
But, my initial thought: I still think Melissandra will come into the picture too, of Jon's resurrection.
In that way, maybe it's not one or the other theory. Maybe it's both, together.
Maybe Jon's "mind" goes into Ghost, and his "body" is used by Melissandra to be resurrected back to life, and since the "mind" of Jon is not there, he will be used as a puppet for nefracious Fire God purpose, by Melissandra, but Jon's mind will remain pure, untainted, untouched, i.e., the essence of Jon Snow through Ghost (as the Fire God does take something from the person if he/she/it brings them back to life).
Ghost will truly be the ghost of Jon Snow. Ha!
Heh, yeah, I think George was pretty sly in choosing Ghost's name.
In the books, all of the Stark children can warg. In the show, we only know of Bran being able to warg. D&D have been very conscious about keeping things as simple as possible, so it would be unnecessarily confusing to add this in now. I mean, they CAN do it, and they MIGHT, but it would go against their general philosophy of how they run the show. That is, unless the Stark children being able to warg is critical to the end game... in which case Season 6 would be an excellent time to introduce it.
It echoes Maester Aemon's speech to Jon, "Kill the boy and let the man be born."
I think this is the beginning of that. The killing of the boy, Jon.
Whoa... good catch!
Although Melissandra will resurrect Jon, I think Jon will have a rebirth as well, separate from that.
I know of the L+R=J, theory, and if that's true, then, I can see:
Heh, that would be fitting. My only issue with that is that, to me, I'm selfishly more interested in the consequences of For the Watch than I would be by any intrigue in bringing him back. Namely:
But we all know how GRRM feels about that kind of thing, lol. Maybe he should let Terry Brooks write that page for him.
Such a fight would almost certainly be a creation of D&D, not GRRM. It's tough to say more, though, without getting into probable Season 6 spoilers.
However, this is the type of thing that I could definitely see the showrunners adding in. The Hound's fate is still up in the air, and we really have no idea how much of The Mountain still exists in that body.
She's an idiot. What did she say again? In the name of Renly of house Baratheon first of his name Rightful king of the andals and the first men.
Retard alert. He didn't even have a claim.
That bothered me as well. Granted, I can see Brienne's love for Renly blinding her, but I was surprised Stannis didn't say something. I guess it goes to show that at that point Stannis was 100% defeated.
Also, I think you need to come to terms with the fact that show Stannis is not book Stannis. Book Stannis is a Lawful Neutral hardass and a genius military commander. Despite having inferior numbers, an idiot naval commander that hastily attacked the Blackwater and opened himself up to the wildfire, AND having Tyrion, Tywin, and Randyll Tarly scheming against him, he still somehow almost managed to take King's Landing. He was very, very close. Book Stannis didn't burn anyone after reaching the wall because he knew it would kill moral with half his troops. (Maybe he would have done it otherwise, but book Stannis used a thing called logic to weigh the pros and cons.) Show Stannis burned his daughter because Melisandre's trick with the leeches maybe worked for most of the kings (Balon still seems to be alive, though, but I guess 3 out of 4 ain't bad) and was basically ruined by Ramsay and 20. Good. Men. Then he marched blindly to Winterfell and somehow missed the thousands of horses that were behind the small hill.
Show Stannis was an idiot that deserved what came to him, and I sort of think the writers just wanted him gone. Stephen Dillane was an awesome actor that nailed the role though, and for that reason I'm still going to miss him.