The Game of Thrones premiere left one big question unanswered

In the premiere of the HBO fantasy drama's sixth season, we get an update on Jon Snow, as the rest of the characters tackle loss, grief, and action

Joe Naufahu as Khal Moro and Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen
(Image credit: Macall B. Polay/HBO)

Jon Snow is dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. After nearly a year of feverish speculation about the Lord Commander's ultimate fate, Game of Thrones' sixth season attempts to shout down any remaining skeptics by opening with a long, slow pan over his cold body, lying in a massive puddle of blood while his direwolf howls nearby. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Jon Snow is as dead as a door-nail.

Of course, the cold fact that Jon Snow is absolutely dead right now doesn't mean he'll stay that way. This is Game of Thrones, where a man like Berric Dondarrion can be killed and resurrected again and again; where the "extinct" dragons literally came roaring back to life; where Cersei Lannister is being guarded by a mute soldier that is almost definitely the revived corpse of Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane; and where the greatest threat to Westeros is an ever-growing army of walking corpses, into which any person killed by a White Walker is drafted.

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Scott Meslow

Scott Meslow is the entertainment editor for TheWeek.com. He has written about film and television at publications including The Atlantic, POLITICO Magazine, and Vulture.