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Some Game Of Thrones fans just aren't ready to let go. Maybe they never will. Unless you count building a shrine on a New York street as letting go.
Stop reading now if you've still not seen the final episode of the fifth season of the sword-witchery-and-death (oh lordy, lots of death) show. No, really, stop reading because we don't need your tears of rage on top of tears of loss, pain and disappointment.
Ok, they've gone? Right.
A Brooklyn fan of the show erected a monument to his grief over the death (or is it a death?) of central character, fur-bedecked sex symbol and one of the last of the good guys, Jon Snow. The shrine features a photo of Snow looking typically broody and sad, candles, "snow" (not always easy to get the real stuff in a New York summer) and signs inspired by or lifted from the books which spawned the series, declaring "you know everything Jon Snow" and "What is dead may never die, but rises again harder and stronger".
As revealed by the Gothamist website, the shrine was created by a Matt Doherty, his fandom spilling out to greet commuters and share "all the feels", some of those feels possibly an intention to deliver their own blade to the guts of certain members of the Black Watch, or the producers.
A photo posted by Matt Doherty (@dortreport) on Jun 15, 2015 at 8:23pm PDT
Whether Doherty was serious or not, those "feels" did attract both mourners and mockers, not to mention those spoiling for a fight because of spoilers. Though how many days must be given over to radio silence of major plot developments – Two? Three? For all time? – is always a contentious topic. The show won't return for another nine months and that's a long time to either keep shtum or hold in that grief.
A video posted by Matt Doherty (@dortreport) on Jun 16, 2015 at 4:24am PDT
Though of course all this must come with the knowledge that we might not have to grieve for long, or at all. Death, schmeath. Ask former master, and budding necromancer Qyburn.
As book readers and now show watchers know, death doesn't have to mean the end, even if you're not being raised by that spooky White Walker chap who proves that misery likes company by creating his own fan club/army from the ranks of the dearly departed.
Having earlier in the series seen how the Lord of Light, preferred god of the redhead priestess/witch Melisandre, brought back Beric Dondarrion – again and again thanks to the priest Thoros - we saw in this week's final episode that Qyburn has found some resurrection of his own for the murderous Ser Gregor Clegane, aka The Mountain.
So, given Melisandre returned to Castle Black before Snow got it in the belly ... and chest and soul (et tu Ollie?), and we know she's got powers and maybe Snow really isn't a Snow, or Stark, but (spoiler if you haven't been paying attention!) a Targaryen and .. and ...and ...Jon Snow can't be dead, he JUST CAN'T BE, some magic could be afoot before all that blood runs out into the snow for good.
Now that's something worth praying for, right?