Game Of Thrones Season 6: 10 Ups and 2 Downs From 'The Door'

1. Hold The Door

Game of Thrones Hodor
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Hold the door. Hold door. Hodor.

Hold me.

If the reveal of the White Walkers' origins was shocking, Hodor's were simply devastating.

The way it played out was utterly superb though, coming at the end of a thrilling sequence involving Bran and co. against the White Walkers and wights, and intercut with Bran in the past watching young Hodor, and it all intertwined as Bran warged into him and Meera's shouts of "hold the door" took hold of his mind.

It was a big, tragic twist, and meant we were saying goodbye to one of the few truly good and innocent characters on the show.

It also has potentially huge implications for the series, because it means Bran can not only see the past, he can interact with it and influence it, so he could possibly have been involved in any of Westeros' major events, and lends credit to previously-thought-crazy fan theories about him being a time-traveller.

Now, onto what wasn't so good.

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