Yup! I call it Ned's guilt trifecta: Arthur, Lyanna, Jon.
As a man, it sure makes sense to me... Raising a child... his face looks like your own (and, like your dead sister's.)
The boy calls you Father. You name him Jon, after the man who took you to ward, and raised you.
Either you killed his father, personally... or, your best friend killed his father, personally.
Do you...
not think about the boy's father for years at a time?
speak of the boy's father as the finest knight you ever saw, and feel sad?
Do you randomly find yourself remembering the boy's father, dispassionately? Or, does the boy's father's face burn clearly in your dreams, even now, fourteen years later?
Yup! I call it Ned's guilt trifecta: Arthur, Lyanna, Jon.
As a man, it sure makes sense to me... Raising a child... his face looks like your own (and, like your dead sister's.)
The boy calls you Father. You name him Jon, after the man who took you to ward, and raised you.
Either you killed his father, personally... or, your best friend killed his father, personally.
Do you...
not think about the boy's father for years at a time?
speak of the boy's father as the finest knight you ever saw, and feel sad?
Do you randomly find yourself remembering the boy's father, dispassionately? Or, does the boy's father's face burn clearly in your dreams, even now, fourteen years later?
Did you ever know that you're the wind beneath my wiiiiiiiiiiiiiings!
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
"I asked [George R.R. Martin] about who Jon Snow’s real parents were, and he told me. I can’t say who, but I can tell you that it involves a bit of a Luke Skywalker situation." - Alfie Allen
Luke Skywalker thought Darth Vader killed his father. But Darth Vader WAS his father.
Jon Snow thinks Ned Stark is his father. But his ACTUAL father, Arthur Dayne, was killed by Ned Stark.
I wanted to pull the quote from Alfie Allen out in its entirety, because there's an interesting addition at the end of it as well.
Q: What did you ask him about in return?
A: You know, I asked him about who Jon Snow's real parents were, and he told me. I can't say who, but I can tell you that it involves a bit of a Luke Skywalker situation. It will all come to fruition eventually. The whole thing with all the fight over proper succession is partly inspired by the War of the Roses in the late 1400s, and back then, to ensure pedigree, the monarchies were kind of inbred. It's definitely fucked up, but it definitely happened back then, so that's why there's incest with the Targaryen line. It's toned down, though.
What???
Why must I always be the isle of crazy alone in an ocean of sensibility? The should to everybody else’s shouldn’t? The I-will to their better-nots?
"I asked [George R.R. Martin] about who Jon Snow’s real parents were, and he told me. I can’t say who, but I can tell you that it involves a bit of a Luke Skywalker situation." - Alfie Allen
Luke Skywalker thought Darth Vader killed his father. But Darth Vader WAS his father.
Jon Snow thinks Ned Stark is his father. But his ACTUAL father, Arthur Dayne, was killed by Ned Stark.
A reverse on the "I am your father" twist.
I hope so. But as I've heard others point out before, the second part of the quote seems very un-Luke Skywalker-y:
A: You know, I asked him about who Jon Snow's real parents were, and he told me. I can't say who, but I can tell you that it involves a bit of a Luke Skywalker situation. It will all come to fruition eventually. The whole thing with all the fight over proper succession is partly inspired by the War of the Roses in the late 1400s, and back then, to ensure pedigree, the monarchies were kind of inbred. It's definitely fucked up, but it definitely happened back then, so that's why there's incest with the Targaryen line. It's toned down, though.
What???
What indeed.
"I can see it. You have more of the north in you than your brothers."
"I asked [George R.R. Martin] about who Jon Snow’s real parents were, and he told me. I can’t say who, but I can tell you that it involves a bit of a Luke Skywalker situation." - Alfie Allen
Luke Skywalker thought Darth Vader killed his father. But Darth Vader WAS his father.
Jon Snow thinks Ned Stark is his father. But his ACTUAL father, Arthur Dayne, was killed by Ned Stark.
A reverse on the "I am your father" twist.
I hope so. But as I've heard others point out before, the second part of the quote seems very un-Luke Skywalker-y:
A: You know, I asked him about who Jon Snow's real parents were, and he told me. I can't say who, but I can tell you that it involves a bit of a Luke Skywalker situation. It will all come to fruition eventually. The whole thing with all the fight over proper succession is partly inspired by the War of the Roses in the late 1400s, and back then, to ensure pedigree, the monarchies were kind of inbred. It's definitely fucked up, but it definitely happened back then, so that's why there's incest with the Targaryen line. It's toned down, though.
What???
What indeed.
I don't think he's necessarily equating the inbred thing with Jon's parentage. I think he was just rambling on and trying to change the subject so as not to run his mouth and get into trouble haha. He's just transitioning at that point to talking about the story at large (which is probably more from what GRRM told him during that conversation), how it was inspired by the War of the Roses yada yada and the inbreeding bit about the Targaryen lineage I don't think has anything to do with Jon's parentage, but about the broader historical context the show is built around (IE the Jaime-Cersei relationship and subsequent bastardry that drives the whole story into motion in the first book, especially when the Lannisters make their power play and put Joff on the throne.)
I wanted to pull the quote from Alfie Allen out in its entirety, because there's an interesting addition at the end of it as well.
Q: What did you ask him about in return?
A: You know, I asked him about who Jon Snow's real parents were, and he told me. I can't say who, but I can tell you that it involves a bit of a Luke Skywalker situation. It will all come to fruition eventually. The whole thing with all the fight over proper succession is partly inspired by the War of the Roses in the late 1400s, and back then, to ensure pedigree, the monarchies were kind of inbred. It's definitely fucked up, but it definitely happened back then, so that's why there's incest with the Targaryen line. It's toned down, though.
What???
It sounds like he's saying Jon is in the line of succession, but that his credentials haven't been certified. It also sounds like there was incest involved in his conception, which is really mind boggling since Lyanna is not a royal. Unless he's saying Lyanna is not his mother. Ok then but Jon has Stark features so where the fuck did they come from?