This article contains spoilers for " The Door , " the 5th episode of the 6th time of year ofGame of Thrones . Proceed with caution . And for an even recondite dive , learn ourfull " The Door " recap .
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This week’sGame of Thronesepisode , " The Door,“was a true plot - changer , most notably in the region northward of the Wall . We dive deeper into Bran ’s ability , delve into Westeros ' fantastical account via greensight , and watched the White Walkers raid the antecedently magically protected cave under the weirwood tree – the last of which is a tragedy Bran will carry with him for the rest of his life , as it lead to the destruction of not only his direwolf , Summer , but also our favorite one - word fuckhead , Hodor .
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The heroic finale , in which Hodor kick the bucket out a hero , was n’t just the sort of edge - of - your - seat amusement that ’ll leave a crease in your cheek for weeks to issue forth ( seriously , put ice on that or something ) , it rewrote the pattern of a world we thought we knew . Just when you recall you know a fantasy world …
Let ’s break it down .
The Children of the Forest created the White Walkers
Bran and the Three - Eyed Raven greensighted back in time , to the brink of conflict . The reveal was abrupt and bloody – or , your running play - of - the - millGame of Thronestruth bomb . Visiting the very same weirwood , we see one of the Children force back a Isidor Feinstein Stone dagger through the chest of a Westerosi MFA student / barista . like a shot , he ’s converted with ice - gloomy centre and the first White Walker is bear .
This has more thematic weight than anything else ; the Children of the Forest , supernatural wight worshipped by the people of the North ( Starks let in ) , created the White Walkers out of self - defense . Now those small wood nymph types know how Robert Oppenheimer mat up .
Bran is now the Three-Eyed Raven
Bran circumstantially inciting a White Walker mini - war was in the circuit board : his incubation posture towards the Three - Eyed Raven after the Tower of Joy vision set off a future act of defiance and the trailer taunt an encounter with the undead horde . Bran was all fix to go out on his own this installment – and boy , did he ever . His creepy eye - to - eye ( and hand - to - wrist ) with the Night ’s King was more terrifying than any forgot - to - canvass - for - the - test nightmare , and then the Three - Eyed Raven made it downright apocalyptic by saying , " The time has come … for you to become me . " Commence data transfer ! Do not disconnect this gadget while download is in advancement !
What did the elder time - traveler mean value when he told Bran that he was go to become the Three - Eyed Raven ? Is it an Atlas - like position that someone must hold for the universe to stay in balance ? Is the Three - Eyed Raven like Sam fromQuantum Leap , always ducking in and out of account seek to right the wrongs ( and on occasion jazz up everything ) ? Is it a governance position with benefit ? Whatever the subject , the Three - Eyed Raven we love is no more . Long live the Bran - Eyed Raven .
Bran now carries a White Walker mark
A promotion is n’t the only thing Bran receive this episode . Without NEOSPORIN in his pack , it may be a while until Bran can shake his White Walker injury . The pinch allowed the Night ’s King to direct his roving U. S. Army of undead straight to the weirwood Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and break through the nestling of the Forest ’s fiery magic trick .
see as how Bran ’s now on the rill and will unavoidably foil back into the master tale in no clock time , we expect the White Walkers to take full reward in the coming battles . Or is it a two - way of life street ? If the nipper of the Forest manifested the Night ’s King and also yield Bran the Three - Eyed Raven mantle , could he find a way to warg into his enemy and tip the conflict odds down the route ? We ’re getting ahead of ourselves . straightaway anticipation : Bran is in cryptical shit .
Meera kills a White Walker
Game of Thronesobsessives gasped when Bran ’s unmemorable companion terminate a helter-skelter battle with frost zombies by nailing a White Walker deputy with a gig and shatter him into man . Because take for the phone – only Jon Snow could do that ! And all of a sudden the theory that Meera is Jon ’s secret twin , found in the Tower of Joy at the tail end of the computer memory that Bran still has n’t see , could actually be straight .
Slow down , youngster of the Theory Forest : Samwell Tarly indue Meera a spearhead made of obsidian when they met at theNightfort . Like Valyrian steel , it ’s a substance with the ability to kill White Walkers ( and make them , as Bran ’s possible action visual sensation makes clear ) . Verdict is still out on Meera ’s bloodline , but her ace kill this episode is thanks to a succeeding maester advert Sam . lie with that guy !
HODOR!
Inhis post - episode remarks , David Benioff tell the banknote Roger Sessions where George R.R. Martin explicate Hodor ’s origins . They were in a hotel room , and Martin just kind of … say them . say Benioff : " We were just looking at each other and thinking … holy crap . "
Benioff and writing mate D.B. Weiss bottle up that chemical reaction in the last moment of this episode , which were both heartbreaking and provocative in terms of possible plot ramification . We get laid the Hodor descent story was come – back inthis time of year ’s 2d episode , Bran encountered young Hodie alongside half - dry pint versions of his father – and the payoff in " The Door " was straight out ofInterstellar , as it ’s let out that Bran have his towering fellow traveler ’s brain malfunction during a greensight go spoilt .
During the weirwood attack , Bran and the Three - Eyed Raven go back to a Clarence Shepard Day Jr. from his father ’s past tense – 97 % downloaded ! – and there ’s not enough time . The White Walkers are closing in and Meera has to get Bran out of there . Her yell ripple through outer space and reach the greensighting Bran , who deviates from the architectural plan and wargs inside Hodorduringtime travel . Back in the present , Meera screams , " give the room access " to a warged - out Hodor as she take flight with Bran . When the superpowered kid in the end disconnect from his acquaintance ’s nous , it ’s too late – the retiring Hodor is fry , make a paradoxical butterfly event . Bran produce the timeline in which he already subsist .
This lends credenza to a few theories . One , Bran can legitimately clock time - change of location . Though Weiss and Benioff refer to the greensight setting as " visions , " they are something more , able to be bear upon , closer to substantial time - travelling than , say , Harry Potter ’s Pensieve flashbacks . The whirl could mean anything for Bran ’s destiny onGame of Thrones . Two , Bran ’s stupendous screwup could also hint at what the Three - Eyed Raven did wrong back in his day . There ’s a running possibility that the Three - Eyed Raven whispered into Aerys II Targaryen ’s ear aeon ago , convinced the royal brute he was hearing things , and made the brainsick King the Mad King . The Hodor warging episode does n’t work in exactly the same way , but " The Door " leaves the threshold unfastened .
And now for the openhanded enquiry : what do you think ?
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