The other F4 members look on in
amazement as Jan-di clomps over to the
fallen Jun-pyo, demanding, “Did you see me
sleeping around with a man? Did you even
see me holding hands? How dare you say all
that about a chaste and pure girl who hasn’t
even had her first kiss yet!”
She warns one last time, “If you keep up
these filthy tricks, I’ll really kill you then!”
One might think that this show of defiance
would piss off the Almighty Jun-pyo, but
later that night, he sits alone, chuckling to
himself. Woo-bin asks why he’s so amused.
Jun-pyo: “Haven’t you guys caught on yet?”
With supreme satisfaction, he announces,
“That chick’s totally into me.” That makes no
sense to the other guys, but Jun-pyo
elaborates:
Jun-pyo : “Think about it. She
didn’t want the guy she likes to
misunderstand, so she came
herself to insist she was pure and
innocent.”
Yi-jung : “Following that logic –”
Woo-bin : “– saying she hadn’t
had her first kiss –”
Jun-pyo : “– is her way of saying
she’s waiting for her first kiss
from me.”
Yi-jung , clapping: “Bravo.
Impressive, Gu Jun-pyo. You’re my
friend, but that’s really
something.”
Relieved at this gratifying revelation, Jun-pyo
attributes Jan-di’s extreme hate of him to
“thinking she could fool me by acting mad.”
It is HILARIOUS, and Lee Min-ho is adorable.
The next day at school, Jan-di lies low,
wanting to avoid more encounters with the
Almighty Jun-pyo. Men in suits approach and
ask her to accompany them, but won’t
identify their boss.
She declines, and hides (in a painfully
exaggerated sequence) as she sneaks her
way across campus, only to be accosted at
the last minute. She’s shoved into a waiting
vehicle, then drugged.
She awakens on a massage table in a
luxurious room, and is subjected to all sorts
of painful beautifying processes like waxing.
Here, I wish they’d employed a bit more
logic, because Jan-di goes along with the
makeup, hair, and dressing sessions —
confused, but not really protesting. Never
mind that she still doesn’t know whose home
she is in, or why she is there. Then again, I
suppose if someone were lavishing clothes,
jewels, and spa treatments on me, my guard
would be down too.
The attendant (butler?) tells her that this is
the first time that “the young master” has
brought home a girl, although I suppose that
requires a pretty loose definition of “bringing
home.”
The butler can’t tell her why she’s here,
because he doesn’t know, either. He
deposits her at a door where someone is
waiting for her; Jan-di enters cautiously and
sees a tall figure standing at the window,
and guesses, “Ji-hoo?”
Disappointedly realizing she’s at Jun-pyo’s
family estate, Jan-di is immediately
suspicious, and puts up her dukes: “What
are you going to do this time?”
Jun-pyo turns her toward a mirror and tells
her to look: “See, money can turn even an
ugly duckling into a heron.” Jan-di: “Don’t
you mean swan?”
Indignant, Jan-di retorts that she didn’t ask
him for this, but he’s wrapped up in his own
smug misconception, and tells her, “If you
like me, just say so.” When she doesn’t
respond, he recalls, “Right, you like to talk in
opposites, don’t you?” (O, delusion, he is
King of it.)
Jan-di accuses him of illegally kidnapping
her. Jun-pyo assures her, “Nobody’s around,
so you can be open about liking me here.
From now on, I’ll be willing to make an
exception and recognize you outside of
school.”
Jan-di is completely speechless. He
continues: “If you just do as I say, when
nobody’s around I can treat you as the
Almighty Jun-pyo’s girlfriend.”
Jan-di wonders if his brain has been addled
by too much greasy food, and turns to leave.
Showing the first sign of anxiety, Jun-pyo
blocks her from leaving. He tells her that
she’s currently wearing 100 million won’s
worth ($77,000), “But that’s nothing. If
you’re with me, you can enjoy more than that
every day. Are you saying you don’t want it?
Are you crazy?”
Jan-di bristles: “The moment I see your face,
it feels like bugs are crawling all over my
body.” She takes off her jewelry and throws
it on the ground, then reaches to unzip her
dress (before remembering Jun-pyo’s
watching — rather intently, I might add —
and insists he return her uniform).
Jan-di: “You don’t seem to know this, but
you can’t buy friends with money. Friends
bond through feelings.” Jun-pyo replies,
“There’s nothing you can’t buy,” and tells her
to contradict him if she can. She can’t think
of anything.
After Jan-di leaves, Jun-pyo rages against
his employees, stomping on the discarded
dress and telling his butler to throw away
the dress and fire everyone who worked on
Jan-di today.
Jan-di remembers too late that she’s still
wearing the borrowed high heels, takes them
off, and throws them over the gate — just as
Ji-hoo finds her outside and wonders what
she’s doing. He laughs: “You’re always in a
dramatic situation.”
Jan-di asks Ji-hoo, “Is there anything in the
world you can’t buy?” Dejected, she figures
there isn’t, but perks up when Ji-hoo
answers after a moment of thinking, “Air.”
Amused at her happy reaction to finding one
unbuyable thing, Ji-hoo ruffles her hair and
calls her “a really fun kid.” As he gets up to
leave, he tosses her his sneakers, since
she’s now barefoot. Jan-di watches him
zoom off on his motorcycle with a smile.
She tries to return the shoes the next day by
visiting the F4 lounge, but Yi-jung and Woo-
bin inform her that Jun-pyo isn’t around. She
grumbles that she doesn’t care about him,
and asks them to give the shoes to Ji-hoo.
The guys know they owe their recent
entertainment to Jan-di, and invite her to
have some tea while she fills them in on her
latest encounter with Jun-pyo. Seeing a
commercial of Min Seo-hyun on TV, the guys
mention that Ji-hoo ought to be happy that
Seo-hyun is coming back to Korea soon.
She asks if Ji-hoo is acquainted with Seo-
hyun, and learns that after his parents’
death, he’d retreated into autism (I
remember hearing it was Asperger’s, which
is a mild form of autism). Seo-hyun was the
only one able to draw him out of himself,
and became something of “a first love,
girlfriend, and mother.” This information
drags Jan-di into a funk, so much so that
she even cuts dinner short, feeling
inadequate next to the glamorous model.

EPISODE 2 RECAP
Jan-di fights off her trio of attackers, who
grab her from the girls’ locker room and hold
her down.
They stop at the arrival of Ji-hoo, who asks
what they’re doing in his languid, casual
manner. His presence flusters the guys,
because they’re acting on Jun-pyo’s orders,
and Ji-hoo is obviously Jun-pyo’s friend. As
though oblivious to the scene going on in
front of him, Ji-hoo peers down at Jan-di and
asks if she’d left something out of her
pancake recipe from before. Something went
wrong when he tried it. Still held down by
her attackers, bewildered at the non
sequitur, Jan-di mentions baking powder.
Rather an awkward way to discuss cooking
techniques.
Ji-hoo addresses the three minions: “Why
are you still here?” Faced with disobeying Ji-
hoo to his face or Jun-pyo behind his back,
they skedaddle.
Ji-hoo covers her in a towel, and as he turns
to leave, Jan-di tells him, “Thank you.” In his
even tone, he answers, “I wasn’t helping.
These things just annoy me.”
In his mansion, Jun-pyo hears of Ji-hoo’s
interference. To show us that Jun-pyo isn’t
completely heartless, he criticizes his
minions for their extreme measures — he’d
merely instructed that they scare her (to
show her a “bitter taste”).
Ji-hoo’s kindness lingers in Jan-di’s mind for
the rest of the day. She happens to come
across him when she bicycles past him
fondling a poster of a famous model at a bus
stop. Not so sure you want to be getting
that intimate with anything at a bus stop,
buddy.
Jan-di says as much, telling him that a bus
stop poster is bound to blacken his hands
with dirt. Still, she admires the poster of Min
Seo-hyun , who is not only famous for her
beauty but also for her charity donations and
her brains; she recently passed the law
exam in France. Ji-hoo asks, “Do you know
her?” Jan-di answers, “Of course. She’s my
idol.”
Ji-hoo enjoys her reaction, smiling at Jan-
di’s wide-eyed adulation. But his smile fades
when she says that Seo-hyun, who is bound
for great things, could marry royalty, or a
president, or something of that sort to
become a “world’s princess” like Princess Di.
At that, Ji-hoo says, “She’s just a model.”
Jan-di sticks to her fantasy of a foreign
prince falling for her idol. Mood killed, Ji-hoo
turns to leave with the parting shot, “What
do you know?”
At home, Jan-di’s computer-obsessed
brother finds scandalous news online about
one of the students at Shinhwa High School,
a second-year who’s supposedly pregnant.
Identified merely as Miss “K,” the family
tries to guess who it could be, like a Miss
Kim or Kwon (or Keum — which I wrote as
“geum” since it’s closer to the phonetic
reading).
The next day, Jan-di notices the stares of
the other students, but is busy wondering
which of them is the notorious Miss K.
Jun-pyo is in a good mood, and when Yi-jung
asks what’s up with “2,500 Won” (Jan-di)
today, he says, “Just wait. She’ll come here
soon.” (It’s too cute to see that this — her
coming to see him — is his obvious goal,
although he convinces himself that it’s all
because Jan-di needs to be humbled.) Ji-hoo
wonders, “What prank have you pulled this
time?” Jun-pyo: “Why, so you can save her
again?”
Yi-jung and Woo-bin wonder what that
means, while Ji-hoo says that picking on one
girl like this “is ridiculous and childish.” Jun-
pyo retorts, “Do you see her as a girl?”
because to him, she’s like a horse, or a dog.
After all, she dared defy the Great Jun-pyo-
nim (using the “nim” suffix on himself is, as
one might guess, exceedingly arrogant).
Jan-di’s classmates identify her as the
notorious Miss K, and news spreads fast. In
class, both chalkboards have been covered
in slurs like “filthy,” “get lost,” “who’s the
daddy?” “crazy bitch,” etc.
The Tarty Trio leave a pile of dirty rags on
her desk and taunt her. Pushed too far, Jan-
di fumes, “I can’t take this anymore!” Ginger
mocks, “So what are you going to do about
it?”
Jan-di’s arrival at the F4 lounge brings Jun-
pyo much satisfaction, but he covers it with
disdain: “If you came to apologize, you’re
too late.” She throws the dirty rags in his
face and warns him that she won’t sit back
and take his abuse anymore.
Jun-pyo’s arrogance turns to confusion when
Jan-di clenches her fists and assumes a
fighting stance. Puzzled, he asks what she’s
doing, and she repeats: “I told you, I won’t
sit back and take it anymore.” With a shriek,
Jan-di jumps in the air, and whirls into a
rather impressive spinning back kick —
catching Jun-pyo right in the face

Stay tuned for episode 2 recap

As the rest of the guys aren’t taking this
seriously, they find Jun-pyo unusually
fixated. Yi-jung suggests that Jun-pyo act in
their “usual way,” and Jun-pyo’s gleeful
reaction gives us our first glimpse of his, uh,
not-quite-bright tendencies.
The next day, Jan-di gets the red card, but it
doesn’t really mean much to her and she
just tosses it away.
She finds out what the effects of red-
carding are when she walks into class and
her desk is gone. One of her notebooks is
lying on the ground, graffiti’d with hate
words, and when she bends down to pick it
up, it jumps out of reach — someone’s tied a
string to it.
Jan-di follows the leaping notebook out into
the hallway, where her equally defaced desk
is parked. Students start pelting her with
eggs — and then a bucket of flour is dumped
over her from above.
It’s the despoiling of her uniform that gets
to her — she remembers how her father so
proudly ironed it — and Jan-di shouts at
them defiantly, “Go on! Keep going!”
When she looks to the crowd around her,
Min-ji rushes off, too scared to show her
support.
Meanwhile, F4 watches the proceedings on a
television in their lounge. The other two (Yi-
jung, Woo-bin) figure that’s the end of story,
but Jun-pyo corrects them — it’s over when
Jan-di comes begging on her knees.
I admit this is the scene when I totally fell
for Lee Min-ho’s dunderheaded charms,
because he’s absolutely convinced Jan-di
will come through the door any minute now.
He counts down, and his consternation when
she doesn’t is hilarious.
Jan-di retreats to her shouty stairwell (“Do
you think because my name is Jan-di [grass],
you can trample all over me?!”). Again, she’s
interrupted by Ji-hoo, who’s relaxing on the
landing below.
Oddly, he asks, “Do you know how to make
pancakes?” Confused, Jan-di lists the
ingredients. Taking in her appearance, Ji-hoo
peers at her closely, then wipes the flour
from her face and uniform with a
handkerchief. Surprised and touched, she
promises to return it later; he answers that
he won’t be coming back, since the
stairwell’s gotten a lot noisier recently.
Jan-di’s mood lifts when she goes back to
the now-empty classroom and finds a set of
gym clothing and a stuffed animal on her
desk. The toy has a voice-recorded message
from Min-ji, which tells her, “I’m sorry.
Forgive me for being a coward.”
When she goes for a swim, Jan-di finds the
pool littered with trash — it’s Jun-pyo’s next
phase in the Jan-di Tormenting Regimen.
In fact, Jun-pyo’s so into his plans to ruin
Jan-di’s life that even his friends are
surprised he’s still so fixated on them, a
week later. Yi-jung muses, “Isn’t she the first
to really stand up to F4?”
(Ji-hoo isn’t with them because he’s off
sleeping in a new location, although how
anyone can sleep with legs crossed like that
is a wonder. Way to go, Ji-hoo.)
All the while, Jan-di cleans out the pool,
picking out all the empty bottles and soda
cans. By the time she’s dressed in the
locker room, she’s visited by more of Jun-
pyo’s minions, who grab her, ignoring her
screams, and start to carry her off.

Deciding to acquaint herself with the
members of F4, Jan-di and her brother surf
the internet for their bios:
Song Woo-bin (actor Kim Joon ) is heir to a
construction enterprise; his father is a real
estate magnate.
So Yi-jung ( Kim Bum) is a pottery genius
who comes from an artistic lineage; his
grandfather also owns a famous art
museum.
Yoon Ji-hoo (actor-singer Kim Hyun-joong )
is the grandson of a former president, and
the sole surviving descendant, as his parents
died in car crash when he was five. His
family owns a variety of rich-people toys,
like an art center, a European soccer team,
and a major league baseball team.
And then there’s Gu Jun-pyo ( Lee Min-ho ).
The others are famous among rich society,
but Jun-pyo, as the heir to Shinhwa Group,
is known to practically the entire country.
Finding out how privileged F4 is sends Jan-
di into a rage — life’s too unfair. She takes
particular umbrage at Jun-pyo for being such
an asshole, because if he was born so lucky,
he should be thankful and act kindly to
others.
Too late, Jan-di looks down the staircase
and spots a set of legs — someone’s taking
a nap on the landing below. It’s Ji-hoo, who
saunters up to her, telling her in his soft-
spoken way that she’s disrupted his sleep.
He heard the whole tirade, such as her
calling them flies, and tells her the guy’s
name is Jun-pyo, not Jung-pyo — if she’s
going to rail against him, she ought to at
least get the name right.
Lunchtime. The Bimbo Trio make it a point
to hover and comment on Jan-di’s poor-
person lunch. The cafeteria serves gourmet
offerings, but Jan-di ignores them in favor of
her plain lunchbox (rice, egg, Spam), which
they now ridicule.
Unexpectedly, Jan-di receives a friendly
overture from another new girl, Oh Min-ji ,
who is sweet, pretty, and recently
transferred from Germany.
Ga-eul expresses relief that Jan-di made a
friend; she was afraid she’d wind up an
outsider. Jan-di replies glumly, “I am an
outsider.” Still, she figures she can lie low
until graduation, which prompts Ga-eul to
ask what happened to the fearless protector
who used to always stand up for her in
elementary school.
But Jan-di figures she’ll have to stick it out.
Her father’s absurdly proud of her fancy
uniform (as a dry-cleaner, he can appreciate
quality), while her mother pushes her to
work on her looks so she can snag a rich
boy. (Nobody ever said kdramas were
feminist.)
Jan-di’s patience is tried the next day, when
F4 struts in looking cool, as usual, and a shy
student presents Jun-pyo with a homemade
cake and hopes that he’ll “accept her
feelings.” Jun-pyo stares at her in his blank,
haughty way, and takes the cake, as though
accepting — to the girl’s excitement and the
Bimbo Trio’s horror — until he then smashes
the cake into her face.
Jun-pyo walks off, only to find Jan-di in his
path, trying to do her best to tamp down her
fury. She unleashes a diatribe:
Jan-di : “You! Don’t you even have
the barest human courtesy? I
don’t bother hoping you’d have
any humility for your riches. But if
you didn’t want to eat it, you
could have politely refused. Or,
couldn’t you think of the feelings
of the person who made the cake
and accepted?”
Unfortunately, Jan-di’s tirade is only in her
head. When it comes time to say it, she
backs down and mutters, “Never mind.” As
Ji-hoo passes, though, he gives her a smile,
as if knowing what’s running through her
mind.
The next encounter isn’t so easily
dismissed. Min-ji and Jan-di eat ice cream
cones and chat cheerfully, when Min-ji slips
and falls at Jun-pyo’s feet, getting ice cream
all over his shoe. Immediately scared and
apologetic, Min-ji tries to offer to pay for
new shoes, then offers to do “whatever I
can” to rectify the situation. When he tells
her to lick the ice cream off his shoe, Jan-di
steps in, saying he should accept the
apology — it’s not like Min-ji fell on purpose.
So Jun-pyo turns his derision onto Jan-di
instead:
Jun-pyo : “Is it your thing to be
obtuse and interfering? Why butt
into someone else’s business?”
Jan-di : “She’s not just anyone,
she’s a friend. But I guess they
don’t include words like ‘friend’ or
‘friendship’ in rich people’s
dictionaries.”
Jun-pyo : “Friend? Let’s see some
of that great friendship in action.
You lick it.”
Jan-di : “What?”
Jun-pyo : “If you do it for her, I’ll
let this go.”
Resignedly, Jan-di starts to bend over as
Jun-pyo waits expectantly, but stops mid-
bow. Instead, she shoves her ice cream
cone in Jun-pyo’s face, causing him to fall
over.
Jan-di scoffs, “So what, did you earn all that
money yourself?” And no, her “thing” isn’t to
interfere, it’s to stand up to the behavior of
rich punks who rely on their rich parents.
Furthermore, she takes out a couple of bills
(equivalent to a dollar) and throws three at
him, referring to his stained clothing: “Our
business charges 2,500 won, but I calculated
using Kangnam [rich neighborhood]
standards. If it still won’t clean, bring it by.”
That night, Jun-pyo remains in a dark mood,
trying to figure out how to get back at Jan-
di. I’ll admit I burst out laughing when the
song “Never Say Goodbye” came on, since
it’s one of the main themes of PD Jeon’s
previous series, My Girl , and he likes giving
little nods to his previous works. [

(The guy had been bragging earlier about
wearing a shirt only he and Jun-pyo owned,
and Jun-pyo is not pleased to be caught
similarly dressed.)
Afterward, Jan-di sputters at Jun-pyo’s
assiness. She calls him a crazy bastard, then
wonders if everyone else is also crazy,
watching his reign of terror without saying
anything.
This attracts the attention of the school’s
three queen bees, who introduce themselves
as Ginger (the leader), Sunny, and Miranda
(or Shinhwa’s “jin, sun, and mi” — a way of
saying they’re the most beautiful). Ginger’s
affectation is to make horrified exclamations
in English (e.g., “Oh. My. God.”), while
Sunny’s my favorite because she seems
vaguely dim. They stick up for F4 and tell
Jan-di to watch what she says.

Everyone gasps — Jan-di lurches forward —
and grabs him on his way over the ledge.
Saved!
Photos are uploaded, news spreads quickly,
and pretty soon, Jan-di is hailed as a hero in
the media, a sort of Wonder Woman for the
working class. As this occurred on a
Shinhwa campus — and worse, a Shinhwa
heir is involved (albeit indirectly as F4’s
leader) — citizens denounce the Shinhwa
Group. Housewives agree to boycott
Shinhwa stores, candlelight vigils are held,
people demonstrate.
Jan-di’s best friend Ga-eul and her boss
cheer her on (the girls work after school at a
neighborhood restaurant). Ga-eul wistfully
wonders if the F4 boys are as cute as they
say, but Jan-di is not at all impressed. She
calls them Fly Four instead — dung flies.
Naturally, the outcry is a pain in the neck for
Shinhwa Group’s CEO, Kang Hee-joo, who
happens to be mother to F4 leader Gu Jun-
pyo. She vents her ire on her secretary, Mr.
Jung (perfectly cast, by the way): “You
know why public opinion is frightening?
Because they’re ignorant!”
What, then, can be done for damage control?
Offer the commoner a scholarship to
Shinhwa High School, of course!
Jan-di’s family is thrilled. Jan-di is not.
She refuses to go to the school, preferring
her life as it is. Her parents, on the other
hand, think it’s foolish for her to pass up a
free education that even the rich and
powerful would kill for. Plus, they wheedle,
the school has a swimming pool… and
remember how much she liked swimming?
Jan-di is not so easily bought, but still, the
end result is a foregone conclusion. The next
day, she arrives at her new school.
Predictably, she is a complete fish out of
water in this place where students flash
luxury vehicles (Jun-pyo arrives by
helicopter) and designer clothing.
Jan-di wanders around, searching for the
swimming pool, when she hears the strains
of a violin. Curious, she follows the sound
and comes to its source: It’s Yoon Ji-hoo ,
dressed all in white, playing his violin out in
the woods. As we all do.
When he sees her, she asks in a flustered
tone for the pool, and he points her in the
right direction. She runs off in mortification,
but also impressed at Ji-hoo’s skills
sensitivity pretty face.
Now for the Grand Entrance:
F4’s appearance sends all the girls
squealing and everyone rushing to the
entrance to welcome their overlords. No
seriously, you practically expect somebody
to genuflect at their feet. As it is, F4 arrives
in a blaze of glory and glamour-shot
backlighting.
Jun-pyo looks over at one of the bystanders,
who immediately quivers in fear. In a
supremely bored but authoritative voice, Jun-
pyo asks Woo-bin for the rest of his juice,
then pours it all over the hapless student.

In this world, Shinhwa Group (“shinhwa”
meaning “legend”) is the most powerful
corporation in Korea, perhaps best compared
to real-life Samsung, only bigger and more
powerful. Shinhwa makes cars, owns
department stores, and is virtually
everywhere — its empire even includes an
elite school. At the beautiful Shinhwa
campus, pampered students flaunt their
wealth and band together in cliques.
Unfortunately, just being rich isn’t enough to
survive the teen tyranny at Shinhwa —
outsiders or loners are often marked as
targets by the bored uber-clique F4. Once a
student is delivered F4’s “red card,” it
signals the rest of the school to go all out in
harassment and bullying.
This guy, having just received the dreaded
red card, is immediately chased by students
and beaten. He’s cornered into a bathroom,
puts up a good fight, and manages to
escape.
Geum Jan-di (actress Gu Hye-sun ) arrives at
the school bearing a dry-cleaning delivery,
amazed at all the splendor. Students talk
excitedly about the newest F4 victim, joking
that they’d known he wouldn’t last long.
Recognizing the boy’s name, Jan-di follows
the crowd outside, where they all look up at
the rooftop, where the battered guy stands
poised to jump off the building.
The guy shouts to his audience, “This what
you want, isn’t it? Fine, I’ll give you what you
want.” He starts to step off the ledge — but
Jan-di bursts on the scene, yelling to get his
attention. She’s got his dry-cleaning! That’ll
be $30, please!
Jan-di isn’t too quick on the uptake, because
she doesn’t grasp the severity of the
moment until the boy tells her to get the
money from his family after he dies. At this,
Jan-di gasps in horror: “Are you about to
die? Why? You go to such a nice school.” He
tells her, “This isn’t school, it’s hell.” Jan-di
corrects him, saying, “Excuse me, but the
real hell is outside.”
He asks if she knows what F4 is (she
doesn’t), and explains that their red card
makes you a hunted man. Finally realizing
that this mysterious F4 is why he’s all
bloody and ready to jump off a building, Jan-
di indignantly asks, “And you’re going to let
them get away with that?” If this was her
school, she’d show them who was boss. The
guy tells her that her friends are lucky to
have a friend like her — and then jumps.

The title “ Boys Before Flowers ” (or the
Japanese hana yori dango) refers to the
privileged quartet who rule the roost at their
elite private school. They’ve adopted the
name “Flower Four,” which gets shortened
to F4, and are in their last year of high
school at the incredibly exclusive school for
the insanely wealthy, Shinhwa High School .
It’s so sought-after that aspiring attendees
are placed on a waiting list practically upon
birth. The school starts with Shinhwa
Kindergarten and goes straight through
Shinhwa University.
Apparently “hana yori dango” is a Japanese
adage meaning that food (dango) is more
important than flowers (hana) — or rather,
sustenance comes before superficial beauty.
The manga twisted that to suggest that
boys (dango) were more important than
flowers. A third reading suggests that these
four characters are “boys” before they’re
“flowers” — that is to say, their roles as
people are more important than their
collective fame as Flower Four.

If you’ve watched the season 5 finale of
Game Of Thrones and can’t yet figure
out how the writer was able to break the
hearts of millions with the somewhat
disastrous ending, then raise your hands.
The last episode of season 5 is still
perhaps the most gruelling yet in the
history of television and the reason for
this is not farfetched. The number of
deaths on that episode was at an all
time high and each of the deaths was as
bizarre and gruelling as they come. But
the death that seemed to shock
everyone to the core of their beings is
that of Jon Snow (Kit Harington).
The writers of the show did the
unthinkable by having Jon Snow stabbed
to death by his fellow Night’s Watch
brothers who didn’t approve of his
actions of making peace with the
Wildlings. What made the death even
more touching was having young Olly
(Brenock O’Connor), who seemed to be
Jon’s protege, deliver the final stab. It
was saddening to say the least.
Even though Kit Harington has said his
character, Jon Snow is dead, it is hard to
believe given that the character is one of
the reasons why we watch Game Of
Thrones. This perhaps makes us think
the show won’t just take him away, or
would they?
Author of the books the show was based
on, George R. R. Martin when asked
about Jon Snow’s death answered by
saying “Oh, you think he’s dead, do you?”
he had also said in an earlier interview in
2011. “My readers should know better
than to take anything as gospel.”
He also said recently that, “If there’s one
thing we know in A Song of Ice and Fire
is that death is not necessarily
permanent.”
In hopes that Jon Snow would come
back from what seems a fatal end, here
are 5 Reasons we believe that Jon Snow
would make a come back.
Jon could be a warg
The younger brother of Jon Snow, Bran
played by Isaac Hempstead-Wright has
the ability to put his mind and soul in
that of an animal. As such, it is possible
that Jon is one too and he could have
put his soul into Ghost, his direwolf, to
preserve it before his body died. This
theory is very much possible given that
the last words he says before his death
in the book is “Ghost”.
The Red Woman
The priestess (Red Woman) Melisandre,
could be one person who might play a
major role in ensuring Jon comes back.
In the Season finale, she arrives at
Castle Black a day before the death of
Jon right after losing Stannis, the man
she wanted as king. So far, we’ve not
actually seen Melisandre bring back any
dead person, it has happened a few
times on the show. The Priest, Thoros of
Myr resurrected Beric Dondarrion, six
times using powers from the Lord of
Light, who so happens to also be the
same god Melisandre believes in. Given
her long time interest in Jon, she sure
won’t give up now.
Rhaegar + Lyanna = Jon
The long held belief that Jon is Ned
Stark’s bastard seems to be wrong. What
seemed to convince a lot of people to
this fact is because Jon was raised by
Ned but in truth, Jon’s real parents are
actually Rhaegar Targaryen and Ned
Stark’s sister, Lyanna, who are both
dead. If Jon truly has Targaryen blood in
him, and Men of the Night’s Watch
performs their ritual of burning his body
so that he doesn’t come back as a wight,
then Jon may just be reborn the way
Daenerys was in season one.
White Walker
If the men of the Night’s Watchmen who
killed Jon decide to hide his body than
going through the funeral rituals of
burning his body, this may result in Jon
coming back as a wight (Game Of
Thrones Zombies). This fact would be
depressing to say the least if we
remember that the Leader of the White
Walkers (Night’s King), is close by in
Hardhome, coupled with the fact that
he’s interested in Jon.
Though it’s quite hard to imagine Jon as
a zombie, he may actually come back as
a wight with good intentions. The book
made mention of a character called
Coldhands- a wight who can control his
actions and Jon may come back as
this.This might be saddening but it’s still
better than no Jon at all.
Azor Ahai
This perhaps is the biggest and most
controversial

If you’ve watched the season 5 finale of
Game Of Thrones and can’t yet figure
out how the writer was able to break the
hearts of millions with the somewhat
disastrous ending, then raise your hands.
The last episode of season 5 is still
perhaps the most gruelling yet in the
history of television and the reason for
this is not farfetched. The number of
deaths on that episode was at an all
time high and each of the deaths was as
bizarre and gruelling as they come. But
the death that seemed to shock
everyone to the core of their beings is
that of Jon Snow (Kit Harington).
The writers of the show did the
unthinkable by having Jon Snow stabbed
to death by his fellow Night’s Watch
brothers who didn’t approve of his
actions of making peace with the
Wildlings. What made the death even
more touching was having young Olly
(Brenock O’Connor), who seemed to be
Jon’s protege, deliver the final stab. It
was saddening to say the least.
Even though Kit Harington has said his
character, Jon Snow is dead, it is hard to
believe given that the character is one of
the reasons why we watch Game Of
Thrones. This perhaps makes us think
the show won’t just take him away, or
would they?
Author of the books the show was based
on, George R. R. Martin when asked
about Jon Snow’s death answered by
saying “Oh, you think he’s dead, do you?”
he had also said in an earlier interview in
2011. “My readers should know better
than to take anything as gospel.”
He also said recently that, “If there’s one
thing we know in A Song of Ice and Fire
is that death is not necessarily
permanent.”
In hopes that Jon Snow would come
back from what seems a fatal end, here
are 5 Reasons we believe that Jon Snow
would make a come back.
Jon could be a warg
The younger brother of Jon Snow, Bran
played by Isaac Hempstead-Wright has
the ability to put his mind and soul in
that of an animal. As such, it is possible
that Jon is one too and he could have
put his soul into Ghost, his direwolf, to
preserve it before his body died. This
theory is very much possible given that
the last words he says before his death
in the book is “Ghost”.
The Red Woman
The priestess (Red Woman) Melisandre,
could be one person who might play a
major role in ensuring Jon comes back.
In the Season finale, she arrives at
Castle Black a day before the death of
Jon right after losing Stannis, the man
she wanted as king. So far, we’ve not
actually seen Melisandre bring back any
dead person, it has happened a few
times on the show. The Priest, Thoros of
Myr resurrected Beric Dondarrion, six
times using powers from the Lord of
Light, who so happens to also be the
same god Melisandre believes in. Given
her long time interest in Jon, she sure
won’t give up now.
Rhaegar + Lyanna = Jon
The long held belief that Jon is Ned
Stark’s bastard seems to be wrong. What
seemed to convince a lot of people to
this fact is because Jon was raised by
Ned but in truth, Jon’s real parents are
actually Rhaegar Targaryen and Ned
Stark’s sister, Lyanna, who are both
dead. If Jon truly has Targaryen blood in
him, and Men of the Night’s Watch
performs their ritual of burning his body
so that he doesn’t come back as a wight,
then Jon may just be reborn the way
Daenerys was in season one.
White Walker
If the men of the Night’s Watchmen who
killed Jon decide to hide his body than
going through the funeral rituals of
burning his body, this may result in Jon
coming back as a wight (Game Of
Thrones Zombies). This fact would be
depressing to say the least if we
remember that the Leader of the White
Walkers (Night’s King), is close by in
Hardhome, coupled with the fact that
he’s interested in Jon.
Though it’s quite hard to imagine Jon as
a zombie, he may actually come back as
a wight with good intentions. The book
made mention of a character called
Coldhands- a wight who can control his
actions and Jon may come back as
this.This might be saddening but it’s still
better than no Jon at all.
Azor Ahai
This perhaps is the biggest and most
controversial