These make it sound [frick]ing boring, but we all know it won't be

*POSSIBLE SPOILER*
i dont know if this is in the books or not, but i heard some theories online that Jon Snow is actually the nephew of ned stark, and the son of robert baratheon, and that Robert and ned stark's sister had a baby during the war.

Anyway, im really loving the show. I especially liked dany segment at the end of the last episode.

Sean Bean's reaction in that was gas. Yeah, these aren't the best written descriptions but I'm sure it'll be more exciting on screen.

@GoldSlayer1

More likely Jon Snow is the son of Lyanna Stark (Ned's Sister) and Rhaegar Targaryen (Dany's oldest brother), not sure she'd ask Ned to keep him a secret if he was King Robert's son and true heir to the throne.

(he wouldn't have been heir to the throne yet but his heir nonetheless)

TheBeard has spokened.

GOT has been the best show by far these last 2 years. FAR ABOVE DC and MARVEL stuff. Adapting great sagas seems the way to write great series. I hope it'll set an example!

@GoldSlayer1

The father's genes aren't always dominant when it comes t hair but you have a point. It still hasn't been fleshed out but the fact that she had him and made Ned not tell anyone would denote that he's Rhaegar's bastard.

If he's not a Targaryen I'm all for a true meeting of fire and ice! lol hell, even if he is! lmao! It is Thrones!

@Amarillo
lmao good point, i guess it doesn't matter if they're related or not in GoT.

JOn snow is neds brothers son with ashra dayne

Maybe Dany will want a "pure blood" Targaryen heir for the iron throne when/if she conquers Westeros, and get it with Jon. Guess we will find out when G.R.R.Martin gets off his lazy old ass and finishes the last two books.

looked on Amazon the books are about $7-$8.

I dont like reading much when it comes to books (always hated it in school cause i found them boring) but i may consider getting a GoT book.

@GoldSlayer1
Jon's dark Stark-like looks shouldn't be problematic. Rhaenys Targaryen, daughter of Rhaegar Targaryen and Elia Martell, had brown hair and basically looked like her mother, a Martell from Dorne. So, if Rhaenys took after her mother in appearance, so could Jon.

@Boom TubeB, about Jamie, well it's already happening.

man, non readers are so clueless

Basically, this is Dany's storyline for the rest of the season.



@TheBeard
"He's Rhaegar Targaryen's with Lyanna Stark"

I've heard this theory before from a lot of people who read the books and some who just watch the show, but none of them have ever been able to explain how a fair-haired, purple-eyed Targaryan and a dark-haired gray-eyed Stark could sire a black-haired brown-eyed son. Especially when a major plot point of the first season/book is that all Baratheons have black hair. It's even reinforced in the show by Catelyn talking about Jon's "brown stranger's eyes". I'm not saying it's impossible that Jon is Rhaegar's son, just that it would contradict some very well-established rules of inheritance of the Game of Thrones universe. The Seed is, after all, Strong.

Personally, I think either Jon is Robert's son (presumably by Lyanna, though that's not certain) or possibly Aegon (there is a whole conspiracy theory down that rabbit hole, but suffice it to say a Targaryan and Dornish woman could potentially produce a boy that looks like Jon).

Because so much of the history of Robert's Rebellion is so vague, it's hard to say for certain. As far as the canon goes at this moment I think it's much more likely than him being Rhaegar's. All we know for certain about Lyanna's death is that she died in a tower in the mountains of Dorne, and asked Ned to promise her something. People assume that she died as an immediate result or childbirth, but that is an assumption (it is said she that a fever took her strength, but that she died in a bed of blood).

Could she have asked Ned to hide her newborn infant child fathered by Rhaegar from Robert? Sure. Could she have asked Ned to hide her one year-old child fathered by Robert from Robert? Sure. Is all of this intentionally mysterious and impossible to say for sure, absolutely.

***While checking my facts for this post, I discovered that Robert Baratheon actually had blue-eyes instead of brown, as I had always thought. This pushes me more toward him being Aegon (somehow) or that Jon's origin lies... somewhere else entirely. It's precisely GRRM's style to lay enough mystery and red herrings to get the fans obsessed with something that is completely inconsequential. In the end, Jon may just be an ordinary bastard.

One thing that sorta kinda maybe backs up R+L=J is how apparently GRRM tells all the actors something about their characters that no one else knows and in episode 2 when Jon questioned Eddard on his mother's whereabouts, the way Bean played out the reaction, having Eddard getting emotional and teary eyed, was on the spot. I know this is really grasping, but yeah, you can put two and two together.