Without Sam around (he departed for Oldtown early in the hour), Jon had no friends left at the Wall, though it's hard to imagine Sam could have stopped this from happening. But those tensions boiled over in the episode's final sequence, in which Jon was set upon by several Watch members, led by Ser Alliser, with young Olly delivering the killing blow.
Game of Thrones has been suggesting all season long that Jon's efforts to bring the wildlings south of the Wall were being met with resistance from his fellow members of the Night's Watch. So much happened that we're expanding on our usual five-moments format with a special lightning round of cliffhangers.īut first, here are the finale's most important developments: 1) Jon Snow is murdered by the Night's Watch
As an episode of television, "Mother's Mercy" was disjointed and largely unsatisfying, part of a season that has been exhilarating at some turns and a complete downer at others.īut as an hour intended to keep people talking about the show until season six debuts in 2016, it was a raging success. Game of Thrones' season five finale was made up entirely of cliffhangers.
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