Game of Thrones Hold the Door Funny
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We went from the happiest episode of Game of Thrones ever last week, to easily one of the saddest.
With this night'southward "The Door," flavour 6 continues to rack up what's looking like the drama'due south highest trunk count yet — we're only halfway through the season and take lost proper noun-characters every week. Simply none accept been as gut-wrenching every bit the loss of poor Hodor, with Thrones delivering a triple heed-freak dial past revealing the origin of his condition, his dreadful demise, and Bran's responsibility for both.
Plus, oh aye, the Starks lost some other damn direwolf.
We beginning with…
Mole's Boondocks: A place whose very name, like Flea Lesser, tells y'all that the property values are never going to be high here.
We go Sansa'southward long-awaited face-off with Littlefinger. She rightly rips him for selling her to a sadist. "Would you lot like to hear about my hymeneals night?" she asks, and plenty of viewers yell, "No!" Sansa continues: "I tin can all the same feel it, what he did in my body standing hither correct now." Shudder.
Littlefinger is smart enough to non argue. He looks uncharacteristically shamefaced and uncertain. "I made a error a horrible mistake," he says. You think?
Yet Littlefinger isn't the only ane who's uncomfortable hither. Sansa nearly looks as if she'southward addressing the audition. She's confronting us with the rawness of her ordeal. It'south a smart scene because tackles the most controversial decision in the history of Thrones from a perspective that some felt was lacking in season v — exploring the emotional and physical bear on of Ramsay's actions on Sansa.
Littlefinger saves one fleck of news to reveal at the finish: Sansa'due south uncle, Brynden "The Blackfish" Tully, has re-taken his dwelling house of Riverrun from the Freys (Tywin Lannister gave Riverrun to the Freys as a Ruby Wedding gift). This ways she could be able to wrangle a Tully army in her fight against the Boltons. And Littlefinger says his Knights of the Vale will be in that location for her too, not that she wants his help.
Really, two $.25. He can't resist calling Jon Snow her "half-brother." He wants Sansa to trust him, and only him, and their newfound alliance might non serve his eventual purpose. And then he plants that tiny seed on the way out the door.
Braavos: Arya and the Waif are practicing staff fighting. I'm wondering if the staff is going to be Arya'southward preferred weapon moving forward, like Morgan on The Walking Dead. She could inflict some serious impairment against Georgia-based zombies with those skills.
The Faceless Human being enters and says he'south ready to give Arya some other shot. Her task should exist exceedingly unproblematic: Kill an extra named Lady Crane. She's warned not to mess it up. Arya goes to cheque out her target'due south play. Nosotros're hoping for Hamilton because this would probably exist the only manner we're always going to get to encounter it. But no — the troupe is putting on the stage version of Game of Thrones. The actors tell the story of the rise and fall of Male monarch Joffrey. We feel play-within-a-play meta dizziness every bit nosotros realize Arya is tasked with killing off an histrion playing a function in a warped mirror version of Game of Thrones inside Game of Thrones.
At beginning Arya is tickled, simply then the play's hillbilly version of Ned Stark comes forth. At one point she watches from the crowd every bit faux-Ned gets beheaded, just like he did in the start season. Except now Joffrey is sympathetic, Cersei is caring, Ned is ambitious, and Tyrion is sinister. The broad strokes of the story are correct, but the playwright's assumptions about the characters' motives are incorrect, and I wonder if this is the Thrones writers' way of riffing on the show's ain online commentary. That would add together withal some other meta level to this whole endeavor and I of a sudden have to hit pause, take a few deep breaths — and this is all earlier Game of Thrones abruptly turns into a time-travel bear witness.
Then suddenly given a random backstage shot of male full frontal nudity, and now this really feels like some reverse version of Thrones.
Arya notices Lady Crane drinks rum and nobody else does. So that will be her killing technique.
Well-nigh Pyke: The Fe Born get together to elect a new king. Beginning of all, that these guys even have an election is surprisingly autonomous for Westeros — particularly since the Atomic number 26 Islands folk never seemed particularly progressive. They combine a debate and vote into 1 large event called a "Kingsmoot," which needs to be the name of a beer as soon as possible.
We see that Jon Snow isn't the only one to get a haircut this season equally Theon has been given a serious trim as well. Haircut, armor, the homo looks like Theon again.
Theon keeps his discussion and firmly supports his sister Yara'southward claim to the throne. You lot can meet he's struggling to keep himself together and information technology feels heroic for him to just to stand there and not fall apart doing it. The lords appear to on the verge of electing their first female person leader.
Suddenly Theon's evil uncle Euron enters. Y'all'll recall he secretly killed King Balon on that rainy bridge a couple episodes back. Euron appeals to the Iron Born by slamming the Balon's failed wars, promising to build the largest fleet of ships ever, and repeatedly mocks Theon's lack of genitals. I guess we should all be grateful our political system would never support a candidate who uses a election debate to not bad his opponents and brag about his junk.
Euron says his plan is to take his ships to Meereen and lure Dany to his side. We would like to see him try that.
Euron sways the voters and is elected king. He and then has to participate in a baptism-similar ceremony to accolade the Iron Islands god, the Drowned God. The candidates head is dunked under water, he has to breathe information technology in, and if he somehow survives, he's got the task for life — "what is expressionless may never die" indeed. I wonder: If surviving being drowned was required to win our presidency, would that brand our candidates better or worse? It would certainly make the swearing-in ceremony more compelling.
Yara and Theon know they need to brand a run for it, and then while Euron is getting dunked they run and steal his precious fleet. Their fears testify correct as the first thing Euron wants to know upon being revived is where they are then he can kill them. One time he realizes they escaped, he orders men to start building ships to go after them. So basically the slowest chase scene e'er has only begun.
Vaes Dothrak-Adjacent: A proper reunion now for Dany, Daario, and Ser Jorah. Well, mainly Dany and Ser Jorah, as Daario just stands in that location slightly uncomfortable.
Jorah decides to reveal his greyscale to Dany, who outright weeps at his status. I can't remember if we've actually seen Dany cry since season 1.
"Tyrion Lannister was correct," Ser Jorah declares. "I dear you. I'll ever dear yous."
Our hearts melt at that. It's a deeply touching exchange. I really want them to hug, simply that'south probably not a good idea.
She commands him to go hunt for a cure to his advancing disease. He doesn't want to become, but she wisely tells him she'll need him past her side as she rules Westeros. In other words, he's now forgiven, finally. And as usual, Dany is doing exactly the right thing. She's given him a purpose and hope.
Plus, bluntly, now Dany can fool around with Daario without having to deal with Ser Jorah existence all sulky and bummed well-nigh it.
Meereen: The insurgency has paused. Tyrion is still in the spin zone and looking for a way for Dany to get the credit. So he summons a Reddish Priestess named Kinvara to help spread the give-and-take of the Dragon Queen's greatness. This seems risky. The last leader to try to enlist the church for political muscle was Cersei and that didn't work out likewise well.
Kinvara could be Melisandre's cousin. She's just as creepy, and besides has a reddish dress, distracting boobs, and an ultra-confident fanatical glaze. She'due south fifty-fifty wearing one of those black chokers and nosotros wonder how onetime she really is.
She declares Dany is "the 1 who was promised." Okay, then this refers to the Lord of Low-cal's prophesied effigy in human form, the reincarnation of a guy named Azor Ahai — a warrior who long ago defeated an regular army of the White Walkers. Melisandre thought Stannis Baratheon was the one who was promised, and that seems even sillier at present than information technology did in season 2. With Jon resurrected, Melisandre's now thinking Jon is the Chosen One. Simply at present here comes along this other cocky Scarlet Priestess who says it's Dany. Personally I'd bet on the girl with the dragons.
Even though she'due south giving the Meereen team what they desire, supposedly, Varys can't help just object. "You're always right, everything is the lord's volition," he says with rare outright snark.
Kinvara and so manages to unnerve Varys to a degree we've never seen before past knowing the whole backstory of how he was castrated. She warns him that as long as he's Dany's friend he has zip to worry about. So great, now there'southward two of them.
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Castle Black: Strategy meeting. Information technology'southward like King Jon Snow'due south minor council meeting. Or is it Queen Sansa Stark's small-scale council meeting? The idea is to lobby various houses to attempt and rally them to Squad Stark vs. Team Bolton. Sansa drops the intel from Littlefinger that the Blackfish has retaken Riverrun and could join their cause, just so, interestingly, lies to Jon and claims Ramsay told her instead of Littlefinger.
They get set to leave and we get a few rapid beats:
— Tormund continues to un-armor Brienne with his optics, until she's finally outright rolling hers. Nosotros have an interview with Gwendoline Christie about this whole Brienne-Tormund thread we'll post Monday morning.
— Sansa sends Brienne to go to Riverrun to get the Tully's regular army. Brienne hesitates, not wanting to leave her with and then many rape-y types. Sansa insists. Brienne smartly asks if she trusts Jon, why she lied to him. Sansa looks similar perhaps she's not sure herself.
— Jon leaves a miserable Dolorous Edd in charge of Castle Black, as the 999th Lord Commander, with winter coming and an army of undead prepare to march into Westeros. The place is all yours, Edd!
Weirwood Tree: And now we come up to the main entree in our epitomize dinner. There's several Bran sequences tonight and we're going to hit all of them now.
The first has Bran warging-with-permission dorsum in time. Way, way back to the creation of the Night's King. The Children of the Forest were contesting with the First Men. They stabbed a man (with dragonglass and created the Night's King, a golem, a Frankenstein monster, to use in their battle (the stuntman who plays the Night'southward King likewise played his human form, by the way). Merely the experiment apparently misfired when the Dark's King rebelled and created his own regular army of expressionless wights.
Pulled out of his vision, Bran is annoyed at Foliage — it's their fault for creating these monsters. Just Leaf points out that humans shouldn't have attacked them in the first place. Then at that place.
Later, it'due south the heart of the night, the Raven is comatose and Bran is bored. He reaches over to the tree. He takes an unauthorized trip and discovers the ground forces of the expressionless. He's at that place with hundreds of thousands of wights. He walks through them. He should stop, just he doesn't. It's similar he's playing a video game and is just about to impale a level Boss. He reaches the Night's King, who looks straight at him. Bran turns and sees all the undead are looking at him, too. It's an extremely creepy shot. Suddenly the Night's Male monarch grabs him. Run Bran, the phone call is coming from within the house!
Bran wakes with a scream, the King left his marking on his arm. The Raven knows what's happened and explains Bran has to go out, they're no longer prophylactic, the Nighttime'southward King now has their secret cave on his GPS and his ETA is sooner than they call up.
Meera and Hodor are excited at potential post-cave breakfast options when Meera's jiff turns cold — they're here.
The expressionless ground forces are outside, and fifty-fifty Leaf'south holy hand grenades can't cease the White Walker commanders, only their zombie wights who swarm over the cavern.
Meanwhile Bran wargs dorsum to quondam Winterfell as the Raven tries to catch him up on what he needs to know, and he isn't coming out despite Meera's efforts to wake him. Meera needs Bran to warg into Hodor and get him to conduct him out.
Summer attacks wights and gets killed likewise. We'll come back to that.
The Raven gets killed in the cave and turns into a fragmented blackness cloud in Bran's vision.
Leafage uses a grenade to have out a bunch of swarming wights, and herself, like Vasquez in Aliens.
Meera springs into activeness, grabs a dragonglass tip spear, and kills a White Walker.
Meanwhile Bran and the Raven are still in his vision and about to seriously mess with the infinite-time continuum. It'southward like Bran is Marty, the Raven is Doc Brown, and now they're near to f— everything upward.
Bran finally wargs into Hodor and gets him to pull him down a long tunnel, the cavern'south backdoor escape route. Meera and Bran get to The Door… aye… The Door! Hodor shuts it just in time to keep the wights in. Meera screams that he's got to hold the door. The Raven tells Bran he should listen to his friend. Bran locks eyes with young Hodor, a.thousand.a. Wylis, who can all of a sudden run across him, likewise. Wylis has a seizure as Bran commands him to concur the door.
What happens next is awful, and thrilling, and revelatory, and then very tragic. Wylis in the past starts repeating "hold the door." His screaming gradually becomes … "Hodor." And we realize: It was this brain-nuking command by an increasingly powerful Bran Stark that caused young Wylis to become Hodor in the first identify. Which is horrible enough. Merely then what happens next makes it so much worse. The wights first stabbing Hodor to death with their skeletal fingers. Hodor is being killed. The Night's Rex is directly responsible (nosotros're assuming Hodor's dead), only nonetheless so much of this is unavoidably Bran's fault …
Or is it the Raven's fault? How much did the Raven know, exactly?
Or is "error" the wrong word to utilise here? Hodor seemingly had a destiny, a purpose, and it was to aid Bran get N to become the new Raven and and so save his life. He did that. So is this a tragedy?
Either way, as fans pointed out on Twitter: We now realize that every time Hodor has said his name he was describing his own eventual death. Recently I rewatched the Thrones pilot and there's so much sadness now in those early moments, knowing the tragedies that will befall so many characters. With Hodor, our cognition changes our perspective on the character rather radically without irresolute the positive things we feel about him.
And now Bran is existence pulled past Meera through the snowfall. What volition they do next?
As for Summertime … there'due south a theory out there that all the direwolf names are prophetic. I never put much stock in that, only it's edging closer to being disarming. Summer was killed past the demons of winter (winter is coming, and so goes Summer). Jon was brought back to life (he's similar a Ghost). Sansa had Lady, who was killed by the Lannisters (the theory, which is reaching now, speculates the Lannisters likewise "killed" Sansa's gentle lady-like side). Robb and his army blew downwardly south, or blew out (similar a Greyness Current of air). I'chiliad not sure how this all applies to Shaggydog (except that Rickon, with his wild mane of mussed pilus, looks shaggy himself). And how Arya's long-lost Nymeria comes into play is anybody'due south guess (though there was a warrior queen in Dorne with the same name). The reason I bring all this upwardly, aside from being fun speculation, is that with a theory similar this there's a unifying master plan behind each direwolf demise that — like Hodor — will make sense in retrospect.
The episode, past the way, was helmed by outset-fourth dimension Thrones director Jack Bough (who was the main director on ABC's Lost). Welcome to the party, Jack.
MORE: Gwendoline Christie discusses that Tormund beat out.
And now a trivia question for a Hodor T-shirt from the HBO Store. Tricky, just on point: How many times in this episode practise we run across present-twenty-four hour period Hodor (not Wylis) say the give-and-take "Hodor"? So not in voice-over, not in Winterfell, but really see him on photographic camera say the word in the cavern. (Previous winners ineligible, transport your guess to gotpodcast@ew.com). Speaking of which: Tomorrow we'll have another edition of the podcast with more to requite away, and, as usual, we'll have plenty to talk over (subscribe and listen). (UPDATE: New episode posted below).
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