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Sunday nights Season Five finale of Game of ThronesfoundValar morghulis All men must die taken to its extreme conclusion with the deaths of multiple characters. But the biggest, by far, was Jon Snow, who, asour recap noted, fell like Caesar by the blades of his supposed brothers, slain for treason against the Nights Watch even as the largest killing machine in the world the army of the dead marches for their destruction.
Like many of the most beloved characters deaths, devoted Thrones fans had some visceral and shocked reactions to Snows death, ranging from surprise to anger to tears.
Stop killing my people, bemoans one fan in the above supercut of people reacting to Snows death (via Uproxx). Fuck you for that ending, yells another with extended middle fingers. The video is a veritable Kubler-Rossspectrum of emotion minus the acceptance as fans cry, cower, scream and huddle together for comfort.
There was the terrible certainty that washes over Jon Snows face the moment he sees the sign reading TRAITOR, writes Sean T. Collins. Like Sonny Corleone realizing why the toll booth worker ducks before his enemies open fire. Each death was written and shot to feel unique, and uniquely awful.
With this episode, the show has caught up with George R.R. Martins books in almost every way, Collins added. At any rate, its departed from the story significantly enough to make the future as hard to predict as Stannis loss was in Melisandres fires.