“We’d like to apologise for Sunday’s episode”, they say, while sitting on a sofa covered in money.
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In case you haven’t seen the episode, entitled “The Door”, then consider this your spoiler alert warning. This caused Wylis to have a seizure that made him repeat the phrase over and over again, until it was shortened to “Hodor”.
Showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss recently told Entertainment Weekly that during a 2013 meeting with Martin, they learned about “three holy sh- moments” the Song of Ice and Fire author meant to include in his series – two of which have already happened. So the creators offered their honest apology for all the idiots who will be screaming “Hodor” every time you go through a door.
The second was Hodor’s heartbreaking origin story, which Martin has been planning for since introducing the character in the first novel of the book series, A Game of Thrones.
Through one of Bran’s greenseer visions, we finally discover how Hodor became Hodor.
The giant simpleton died while attempting to hold a door shut so his comrades could escape a horde of zombie soldiers. [Showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss] gave me the call. In a hilarious JKL clip, people grew agitated when coworkers – no doubt in an attempt to be clever – shouted “Hodor!” instead of “hold the door!” while running to the elevator.
“Not for killing Hodor, we’ve killed a lot of main characters”, Benioff says. Game of Thrones devices that actually has roots in physics.
They presented an example and said they forgot how annoying people could be. “So much of what we’re doing diverges from the books at this point”, he told EW.
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“Game of Thrones” airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on HBO.
