Hi youtubers it's Charlie and I'm passing around flyers, please send a raven to ygritte
if you've seen this boy. She wants to talk to him. or cut his balls off. I'm not sure
which, one of those two things.
So I'm actually rounding out most of the surviving Stark children in my Game of Thrones
Season 4 previews. Although Jon Snow isn't my favorite character on the show or in the
novels, none of my previews has mentioned the wall or the north yet.
Here's a mild spoiler warning for Jon Snow, The Wall and the wildlings.
I feel like Jon Snow and Robb Stark were almost the same character, brothers from different
mothers. They both have this really strong sense of duty that has really prevented them
from using common sense in a lot of critical moments, but you get the feeling like if Jon
keeps doing what's right as opposed to what's best he'll end up just like Ned Stark. That's
what being stubborn gets you in a game of thrones.
So right now when Season 4 picks up, Jon Snow has just made it back to the night's watch.
remember they still think he's a traitor. They brush over it since he's near death,
but I think the rest of the brothers won't let him forget it. They're not the nicest
or most forgiving group of dudes.
And for any torchwood fans out there Burn Gorman has confirmed that he's coming back
as the night's watch brother that murdered the lord commander and old craster last season.
They don't really address that the lord commander's been murdered when Jon snow
stumbles into camp, but I think that Jon will be forced to take control of the night's
watch by the end of the season.
Also don't forget that the raiding party of Wildlings are still coming for them. When
Jon ran away they were on the path to the Night's watch anyway, so I think they'll
have a battle within the first few episodes.
Really the wall is where most of the action is at in season 4, so Jon Snow won't be
traveling around like he was in season 3. It will be a lot more like season 1. The drama
is really in the decline of the night's watch and their ability to defend themselves.
Remember all the characters there have spent the last couple of seasons talking about how
no one cares about the wall anymore, they don't have enough men to man all of the
castles, there's no food and most of the brothers can't fight.
And they've officially acknowledged the re-emergence of the white walkers and their
army of wights. There won't be any large battles with them until at least season 5
I think, because remember, Stannis just decided to take his army to the wall with melisandre.
That's a whole other story line I'll talk about in another video. But mostly season
4 at the wall will be about Jon Snow taking a leadership role. We kind of saw him making
his own decisions last season, like when he broke his oath for sexytime. But in the books
it really seemed like the character just kept getting colder and colder emotionally as he
started to take on more responsibility.
It's a lot like after Robb Stark started the war against the lannisters, you didn't
see him joking around a lot after that. The interesting thing is that in the story both
of the characters are still teenagers. So when you picture Robb and Jon, they're pretty
much still in high school. I guess they missed the class where they teach common sense.
Jon Snow and Ygritte will be reunited eventually, but it will only be after the wildlings try
to take the wall. There are some really interesting unintended consequences of the wildlings appearance
at the wall that end up changing the direction of the story really dramatically, but I'll
talk more about that in my Stannis video. Be sure to subscribe to get it.
Let me know what you think is going to happen to Jon Snow though, is he going to end up
having to kill eegritte when the wildlings attack? And will Stannis and his Army arrive
at the wall before the end of the season? How long will it be before Jon Snow takes
control of the night's watch and becomes the new lord commander?
I think all of the major events at the wall in the second half of book 3 as well as book
4 will end up happening. Remember they're changing the story a lot, so they will be
combining a lot of characters and events from books 3 and 4.
My next game of thrones preview will be for Brienne of Tarth. I'll post that on Thursday,
in the meantime you can check out my other game of thrones season 4 videos by clicking
here and you can check out my review of the first episode of sleepy hollow by clicking
here.
Thanks so much for watching, high fives!