A Major Game of Thrones Theory About Jon Snow Just Got Debunked
Last week a Game of Thrones fan theory popped up online that was inspired by the show's season-eight teaser. If you haven't watched it 2,000 times, like we have, here's some quick context: Toward the end of the trailer, we see statues made in the likeness of Jon Snow, Sansa, and Arya, but there's a catch. The Sansa and Arya figures portray the characters as they are now—young—while Jon's depicts him as an older man. Some fans took this as a sign that Arya and Sansa die early in the season and Jon Snow is the only one who survives once everything concludes.
But not so fast. It turns out we can't use this teaser to predict anything about season eight—because this footage doesn't actually appear on the show. The Game of Thrones fan site Winter Is Coming unearthed an interview Sophie Turner did at New York Comic-Con from October 2018 where she confirms the statue promo has "nothing to do" with what happens in the final season.
“We did this promo for season eight where—I don’t know if I can say this, actually. Well, actually, no. It’s got nothing to do with the series; it’s just a promo,” she said. “It was this big kind of statue of me, of Sansa, and I wanted to have it in the garden of my new house. But they obviously wouldn’t ship it from Belfast to New York, so….”
It's important to note that anything is still fair game with Game of Thrones season eight. Jon Snow could live, or he could die—and the same goes for Arya and Sansa. We just can't look to this promo as an indicator of plot. Hopefully fans aren't deceived by this, though. After all, it's not uncommon for Game of Thrones teasers to have footage that isn't used in their accompanying seasons. Remember the Long Walk trailer? That was all just a song and dance (and walk).
Game of Thrones season eight premieres on April 14, so it's not that long before we start getting some concrete answers.
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