Jon Snow Spin-Off Update Makes His Game Of Thrones S8 Ending Worse
Guess we can expect more of the same from Jon Snow's spin-off - poor decisions and unsatisfying endings.
Let's briefly list all the manifold ways in which the life of Jon Snow (Kit Harington) sucked by the end of Game of Thrones Season 8.
Defeat of the White Walkers left him without the overarching purpose of his life, for which he sacrificed so much – and all his efforts only circumstantially enabled that defeat at best. He discovered that his childhood was a lie. He got killed by his friends, and resurrected by a witch. He watched two girlfriends die, and killed the second one with his own hands.
And he got banished beyond the Wall for that killing, if only to placate Daenerys' soldiers.
If there was a silver lining on that cloud, it was the fact that Jon always felt more at home in the company of the Wildings, and now, with no more apocalyptic threats looming, he could just enjoy their company to his heart's content, and get over all the trauma.
However, Jon Snow's story does not end up here. As is well-known by now, a Jon Snow-centered Game of Thrones sequel/spin-off, is currently in early stages of development. And Kit Harington has recently commented on his character's supposed mental state at the end of Season 8/beginning of that sequel, during his panel at the official Game of Thrones Convention – confirming that said state is quite bad.
"He's gotta go back up to the place with all this history and live out his life thinking about how he killed Dany, and live out his life thinking about Ygritte dying in his arms, and live out his life thinking about how he hung Olly, and live out his life thinking about all of this trauma…"
"So I think where we leave him at the end of the show, there's always this feeling of like… I think we wanted some kind of little smile that things are okay. He's not okay," Harington added.
Notably, Harington refused to offer any comment about the Jon Snow sequel. At this point the fandom is empathizing with Jon, but takes a pretty dim view regarding the prospects of that series. Not only because there are no obvious ideas on what might or should happen in it, barring some inanity along the "somehow White Walkers returned" line, but because given the sort of the world we're dealing with, there is always a chance that the sequel would make things even worse for its main character.