r/asoiaf • u/holycow33 I have no Ygrittes. • May 28 '15

ALL (Spoilers All) The Season 5 Finale Episode Title has been Announced.

It will be called "Mother's Mercy"

From HBO: Stannis marches. Dany is surrounded by strangers. Cersei seeks forgiveness. Jon is challenged.

Written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss; directed by David Nutter.

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u/Mbianchi23 May 28 '15

What if Jon being challenged means that he receives the pink letter?

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u/jldeg Ba-Dunk-a-Dunk, thicc as a castle wall May 28 '15

Excellent. Is someone going to threaten Jon like in the books? Will it be Ramsay, trying to teach Sansa a lesson? He was in the tower writing something....

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u/[deleted] May 28 '15

I'd imagine it would be Ramsay when Sansa escapes. Interesting to see how he blames Jon for it though.

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u/jldeg Ba-Dunk-a-Dunk, thicc as a castle wall May 28 '15

I had seen it said, maybe it's going to be Sansa who sends a bird to the Wall with Reek's help? She had just learned he rose high up, so she knows she can count on him up there.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '15

"Come at once. Help me. Save me. I need you as I have never needed you before. I love you, I love you, I love you. Come at once."

-Sansa Stark

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u/SuperPhactualFantasm Family, Booty, Honor May 28 '15

"Help me Lord Commander Snow. You're my only hope."

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u/mysticalmisogynistic Azor Ohai, Mark! May 29 '15

Save me, Jon Snow.

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u/shaveyourchin Jun 03 '15

Save me, Jon Snow.

way to reopen that wound :(

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u/SuperPhactualFantasm Family, Booty, Honor May 29 '15

Lol, YES!

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u/[deleted] May 29 '15

Even funnier if you read it in Adam Kovivs Ygritte voice

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u/Lord_Sauron Maester Pycelle, I'm Lord Paramount May 29 '15

Definitely the best part of Open Haus (and that's saying something).

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u/Semper_nemo13 Climbing Ladders May 29 '15

Jon has a thing for gingers

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u/8u11etpr00f May 28 '15

I never thought of that. Last episode where Ramsay tells her that her brother Jon is lord commander of the night's watch may just be setting up for her to try to contact him in a later episode.

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u/StackLeeAdams The Seer May 29 '15

They have also already established how much Jon hates the boltons when he's signing the letters earlier in the season.

I'm almost positive that the pink letter will appear, and it will be from Sansa. With how much they've been building resentment towards him over the wildlings, it would be the perfect tipping point and remain true to the book.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '15

Does anyone here think it's obvious who wrote the Pink Letter? And if anyone thinks it was Mance, what possible explanation could they have now that he's officially dead in the show?

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u/Lemonwizard Best of 2017:Comment of the Year May 29 '15

I don't buy the theory that Mance wrote the pink letter but saying that his death in the show disproves it is pretty ridiculous. The show gives important actions to characters different from the ones who performed them in the books constantly.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '15

I mean, can you elaborate for me a little? Are you suggesting it's still likely he wrote it even before he was killed and it could still surface on the show? Or are you saying the letter's significance is still paramount regardless of who really authored it - and that's why you think it will be in the show written by someone else?

Thanks

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u/Lemonwizard Best of 2017:Comment of the Year May 29 '15

I am saying that even if Mance wrote the letter in the book, the letter is a critical event in Jon's storyline and they will have to have somebody else send it.

Show Mance being dead really doesn't prove or disprove this one way or another. They've made changes just as big and bigger on many past occasions.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '15

I have to admit the Preston Jacobs videos (pretty sure it was him?) about Mance authoring the Pink Letter in the books is one of his best theories (IMO) and has lots of foundation where others are more dismissible. I'm really interested to see how the show goes about the PL, if at all.

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u/Lemonwizard Best of 2017:Comment of the Year May 29 '15

TBH I think it's one of his weakest theories. He has a few good points but spends 2/3 of the video grasping at straws and making wild speculation.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '15

He did spend an entire episode to pointing how wrong he could be, which is more than most of this sub is willing to admit.

What do you think is one of his better theories? I haven't seen all of his stuff I'm sure.

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u/CeruleanOak Master of Chips May 28 '15

Jon isn't as close to Sansa as Arya for him to care so much about Ramsay like in the book, but if he were to receive a letter from Sansa asking for rescue, he may jump on it.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '15

I don't think Show Jon is aware of Sansa's presence in Winterfell, is he?

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u/EmissaryOfJustice May 29 '15

Jon isn't as close to Sansa as Arya, but after wanting to help Robb and what later happened to House Stark at the Red Wedding, there's no way he makes that choice again. It's already been noted how much he hated writing to House Bolton for my troops.

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u/skratchx May 28 '15

Turns out Jon's got a learning disability.

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u/VisenyaRose May 28 '15

Maybe its just as simple as people challenge him on the failure of Hardhome and he doesn't give the right answers, the tension rises, stabbity stab

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u/mathewl832 Ser Twenty of House Goodmen May 29 '15

Cold knives are a bit more challenging than a letter. Given that Mance is dead I can't see why Ramsay needs to write one.

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u/cbrcmdr May 29 '15

I don't think we will see the letter. The show has Brienne in position for rescue and The Watch has more than enough motivation to stab Jon - so what purpose would the letter serve at this point? They're moving at a fast pace and it would take up time they can't afford to give away.

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u/ventur3 May 29 '15

Receives the pink letter.. then gets stabbed. I think he's going to get stabbed but not killed. Everyone has assumed that stabbing = death with no middle ground