If there is one person who knows the fate of one of the most loved characters in HBO's "Game of Thrones," it must be author George R.R. Martin.
In the episode titled "Mother's Mercy," Night's Watch Lord Commander Jon Snow (Kit Harington) was ambushed by his own men and was left for dead because of his unpopular decisions. But avid fans still cannot accept that he will no longer appear in the show.
Both Harington and series showrunner Dan Weis seem to confirm in their interviews with the Entertainment Weekly that Jon is really gone, separately saying that "dead is dead."
However, the author of the best selling "A Song of Ice and Fire" novels offered a more ambiguous answer when the book "A Dance with Dragons" was released in 2011.
"Oh, you think he's dead, do you?" Martin said during the book's release back in 2011. "My readers should know better than to take anything as gospel."
Jon Snow's fate in the books is also uncertain since Martin has yet to release "The Winds of Winter."
But fans still refuse to accept the possibility of "GoT" losing Jon Snow. Several speculations claim that the Lord Commander managed to "warg" himself in the body of his direwolf Ghost just before he received the final stab from Ollie (Brenock O' Connor). Others believe that priestess Melisandre (Carice Van Hauten) will be able to bring him back from the dead since she arrived right on time when the Night's Watch ambushed their own Lord Commander.
Martin also talked about the controversial scene involving Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey), who was ordered to take the Walk of Shame as penance for having several affairs when she was still married with King Robert (Mark Addy), including the incestuous relationships with her brother Jamie (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and cousin Lancel (Eugene Simon), as well as committing regicide.
According to the bestselling writer, Cersei's Walk of Shame is an interesting chapter to write. He also based it on an actual historical event, when Jane Shore, one of the mistresses of England's King Edward IV, was punished to walk in the streets of London to be shamed publicly.
Martin also predicted that viewers will talk about the scene for a long time.
"It's going to be a controversial scene when it comes out — is it misogynistic or feminist? It wasn't a punishment ever inflicted on men. It was a punishment directed at women to break their pride. And Cersei is defined by her pride," the author stated.
