Very few shows can be as gut-wrenching as Game Of Thrones, but in the case of this week’s fantastic episode, the devastating twist felt more like a dagger to the heart than a punch to the stomach.
In case you haven’t seen the episode, entitled ‘The Door’, then consider this your spoiler alert warning. You know the drill.
In the final moments of the episode, we finally discovered why the fan favourite Hodor could only say “Hodor”, and that his whole life was a casualty to chance and Bran’s ill-fated attempt at warging.
Actor and DJ Kristian Nairn has been earning a lot of praise for that remarkable scene and his performance on the show, but we’ve a feeling that we might be seeing him back on our screens in the near future. After all, those White Walkers could do with some help.
Even if he’s an ice zombie, we’ll always hold the door for him. Actually, we won’t. Those things are terrifying!
Hodor. Thank you guys,for the love,+ know that I love you back.I never dreamt of all this.Huge props to @SamColemanActor for an amazing job
— Kristian Nairn (@KristianNairn) May 23, 2016
https://twitter.com/emrealmdr/status/734788074266300416
@KristianNairn I've not cried once in six seasons, until now. #HoldTheDoor man, you held it. I'll miss you on #gameofthones thank you sir
— Jon Snow (@SnowyJonny) May 23, 2016
He held the door, I couldn't hold the tear. #Hodor
— Atish Dash (@atish_dash7) May 22, 2016
That's been Hodor's whole purpose for decades. The only thing that's been on his mind.
— Reagan Gomez (@ReaganGomez) May 23, 2016
Legit sobbing right now about Hodor. Like blubbering.
— 16 years of song a day (@songadaymann) May 23, 2016
Hodor, the actual manifestation of "you had one job"
— Bae O’Wulf (@KiaJD) May 23, 2016
https://twitter.com/fivefifths/status/734875044564848640
I've spent the majority of my day thinking about Hodor.
— Patrick Fischler (@PFischler) May 23, 2016
https://twitter.com/SahilBulla/status/734987818355724288
Guy that plays Hodor is also a DJ and now if he can't finish soundcheck b4 doors open he's gonna have 2 ask the venue 2 hold the doors oh no
— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) May 24, 2016
Still, at least least Bran apologised (through the actor who plays him, Isaac H. Wright)
Nice one, Bran. 😞
— Isaac.H.Wright (@Isaac_H_Wright) May 23, 2016
Nairn and Wright filmed this interview to accompany this week’s shock episode.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AHMTVcbvb3c
In it, Wright gets to the heart of why Hodor’s fate is upsetting:
“It’s mortifying. It’s so sad. He’s one of the only characters on Game of Thrones who genuinely doesn’t have an agenda of any kind, I mean at all. He’s just Hodor… So to have him then killed is just the ultimate twisting of the knife.
And it really is these good, kind characters that deserve nothing like that and who have been through a horrible time themselves. Because Hodor was just a totally normal kid who was then sort of screwed over by Bran.”
