Spoilers after the more tag.
“When you come back from the dead, you get to make your own rules.
“That was the main takeaway from Sunday’s episode of “Game of Thrones,” which began to answer some of the questions raised by last week’s resurrection of Jon Snow.
“Among them: Would he be the same Jon Snow? (Yes, more or less.) Would he take pity on his betrayers? (No.)
“Would he emerge as some sort of Christ figure or holy warrior? (No. The afterlife is dark and full of nothing, he said, despite whatever spiritual forces Melisandre thinks she drew on to bring him back.)
“Perhaps most crucially: Would he remain Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch? Or would death free him up to pursue more wide-ranging forms of world-saving?
“The oath is a lifetime one, but it was unclear whether it encompassed multiple lifetimes.”
Read more at NY Times
