Since the white walkers are able to control the dead, doesn't that mean the Night's King should be able to take control of Jon Snow? Is Jon Snow formerly dead but now fully alive, and thus not susceptible to white walker control? Or is he just another wight whose strings could easily be pulled by a white walker?
Posted May 19, 2016, 11:58 AM UTC
This is a concern, but I imagine it's more about the lack of brain activity.
I am of the belief that the CotF created the white walkers to stop the first men and the Andals, they lost control of them, so they made a pact with the first men/andals and built the wall with the CotF staying north and using enchantments to stop WW invasions (Cave is WW proof). If that comes true than the White Walkers ability to control dead beings is through using warging and warging can only be done on unintelligent beings, unless you are a ultimately powerful greenseer/warg like Bran. Jon is a fully function human so I very much doubt that they could warg him.
Well, in the book, Coldhands was able to fight wights without an Other grabbing control of him, so Jon's probably fine.
Oops, yeah, I forgot about Coldhands. So did the show, apparently.
Whispers in your ear Benjen