Lololol... I'm just thinking about all those poor f*ckers, who translate GOT into other languages, trying to make the origin of Hodor's name make sense.

I'm a big fan of the show, I think people know by now, but this was the shittiest hour of television ever. I mean, I realize they're probably limited financially in how much quality TV they can give us, and maybe that's a sign that the latter half of the season is going to be especially epic, but this episode was a complete waste of time but for the final few minutes. Everything else in it was so bad and useless you might as well be watching fish swim in an aquarium.

Well...he held the damn door :c

But how could he have done so long enough to permit Bran his gal to get very far away?

I'm trying to understand what exactly happened with Hodor. Bran 'takes him over' in the present - seemingly while still observing him in the past. So is his repetition of "hold the door" coming from Bran within him, or does it somehow represent Hodor's own effort? Would it be dangerous for Bran to still be in Hodor when the creepy crawlies finally do him in? And when we see Hodor's eyes roll back in the past, is that his own doing (meaning Hodor too is a warg as some have speculated) or was that Bran taking him over in the past as well? I'm a little confused what to make of this.

(May 22, 2016 at 11:27 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Yeah, Tormund wants to strip her of her title. 'Brienne, Maid of Tarth.'

He wants to make her 'Brienne of Tarth.'

Or perhaps just 'Brienne made by Tormund.

I think it was more like Bran was warging into young Hodor while in the past, which brought the present-day Hodor's memories, experiences, and sensations flooding into young Hodor...which is why it fries his brain, Bran was acting like a link between the present and the past. I also think it was a demonstration of just how powerful Bran will become. However, I don't think Bran can 'change' the past in any real sense. Hodor was "Hodor" before Bran was even born. I think it relates back to the play we saw earlier in the episode: everyone has a part to play, and they will play it. The whole illusion of free will and what-ifs.

The entire Hodor situation seemed too paradoxical to me.