The show had already laid the groundwork for the twist with a more cathartic reveal last season when Bran time-traveled to the Tower of Joy, where his father Ned, then a young man, sat beside Lyanna on the bloody bed where she'd just given birth. But instead they might have laughed, especially when Bran claimed, "No one knows no one but me." Well, no one but him and every single person watching at home. This was the moment when the audience was supposed to gasp at the huge curveball. Rhaegar Targaryen was Jon's father, Bran said. Bran patiently explained that he knows everything now, including the true parentage of his supposedly bastard brother. Cue the nervous laughter from Sam, who had no idea what that meant. "I became the Three-Eyed Raven," Bran said in his new robot cadence. Bran was doing his usual thing, sitting in silence and staring, so naturally Sam was curious what happened to the cute, precocious little boy he'd once met. The information dump came when Samwell Tarly arrived at Winterfell and reunited with Bran, whom he hadn't seen since both were North of the Wall. His parents are Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark. As it turns out, RL really does = J: Jon Snow isn't the product of Ned Stark's extramarital affair. Martin's books first came out so many moons ago. On Sunday night's Game of Thrones finale, viewers finally got confirmation on the story's most widely circulated fan theory, which has been kicking around the Internet since George R.R.