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Game of Thrones Season 6 Discussion [SPOILERS WITHIN]
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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.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
 RE: Game of Thrones Season 6 Discussion [SPOILERS WITHIN]
May 23, 2016 at 6:43 am
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2016 at 6:44 am by Excited Penguin.)
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... I liked it!
And I too cried... damn... As for the rest... 
Petyr Baelish looking undone in the same episode that Varys looks undone... hrmm.
 Bran is something special. He can time travel, and can affect the past, so can he harness it and prevent the Children of the Forest from creating the Night King in the first place? Is the Night King's brand on Bran's arm a permanent beacon, or is it like Frodo putting the ring on? If the former, he's fucked. Jorah needs to find a Rite-Aid, and quick. Summer!!!  Another Direwolf down. Just Ghost and Nymeria left. Poor puppies. Seeing the demise of Hodor and Summer in the same 3 minutes was almost too much.Brienne in the Riverlands? Might we see a certain someone? Where are Asha and Theon going? Castle Black? Deepwood Motte? Certainly not Winterfell... right?
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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May 23, 2016 at 8:51 am
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2016 at 8:57 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(May 23, 2016 at 7:19 am)pocaracas Wrote: [...] Even in a universe, where dragons, magic, or gods exist - there's still going to be bullsh*t, probably even more, than in our reality - precisely because many people have seen weird sh*t of some kind and are therefore more likely to trust a charlatan. And religions, as well as prophecies would seem like a pretty lucrative scam, even in a fantasy world. It's also worth mentioning, that G.R.R.Martin is anti-war and an atheist/agnostic. Critique of both war and religion is fairly prevalent in his work. Do we really expect, that he will end his Opus Magnum with a worn cliche, like a sexy, violent messiah slaughtering "the bad guys" in a great battle of Good vs Evil, as foreseen by some religious nuts? Even if he does that - it's quite likely not going to be a happy ending. Although that's the books - who knows what TV writers are going to do... Funnily enough - the show already seems to hint, that prophecies are bullsh*t, although that's likely just a continuity error, stemming from the fact, that many different writers work on this show and they don't necessarily always pay attention to one another's input, while they "improve" on the book.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
Well...he held the damn door :c
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson 
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. RE: Game of Thrones Season 6 Discussion [SPOILERS WITHIN]
May 23, 2016 at 10:11 am
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2016 at 10:18 am by Whateverist.)
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.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson 
The entire Hodor situation seemed too paradoxical to me.
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