Hold The Door! Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 5 "The Door" REACTION/REVIEW 

Not all heroes wear capes, some just hold the door.

First words spoken to hodor in the show: “help bran down the hall.”-Theon Greyjoy

It's a time paradox. Hodor's death was the saddest.

Brans direwolf was named summer. Simmer dying symbolizes that winter has finally come

Hodor is TRULY the most innocent character in the show. It was sad to see him go

GRRM kept that shit under wraps for over 20 years Its like a time-loop, Bran created a connection between past and future Hodor in which he saw himself sacrificing himself by holding the door. Thats why everytime there was danger he froze up

No coincidence at all hodor saying hold the door, grr martin is a sick crazy genius writer

The saddest part is Hodor was scared when Meera told him to help which I think meant he remembered his death and knew it was coming. I remember getting into and elevator and someone yelled "Hold the door!" and everyone went "Ahhhh RIP Hodor", lol.

Hodor was always meant to be Hodor. Bran is quite possibly the most powerful warg in history. Hence his ability to travel. But what makes him different from the former 3 eyed Raven is, while the old guy can visit the past, Bran can interact with the past. In the scene he's looking at Willis when he hears Mira telling him to warg into Hodor and in his desperation to do so he taps into the mind of Willis and uses him to control Hodor but upon doing so he links the two and it's because of Hodors resolve to protect Bran and Mira, his sole thought is to "Hold the door" which unfortunately but inevitably breaks the mind of young Hodor. This whole turn of events is LITERALLY fate happening in real time.

R.I.P. Hodor and Summer, they were real ones and held Bran down. This episode made me cry and also made my head hurt because now time travel has entered the great game. And I'm sure the Bloodraven knew that Bran would do that anyway. He knew Bran wouldn't be an old man in a tree like him. He knew something would make him leave.

This is one of the saddest scene . I always cry watching it .

"how do you know it wasn't just a coincidence" maaaan this dude better pass the blunt

It‘s a time paradox. And idk if u remember, but the creator of the walls was named Bran the builder. There‘s the theory that Bran went back to the past in some time and build the walls. There‘s also the theory that he‘s the reason why the mad king went crazy

I have to say i think Jerry is definitely the most impacted by characters deaths....not that the others aren't but he just always seems the most physically shook

Hodor’s name is Willis and fun fact about “Rob’s daughter” - she is right handed but when she learned Arya Stark was left handed in the books, she trained as such to stay true to the character

Very rarely, maybe never again, we see in a TV show, the plot unraveling from the beginning to the end in a specific plan, like learning what something from first episode means, 6 seasons later, one of the reasons Game of Thrones is unique, of course because of the enormous ASOIAF

If you can leave VARYS SHOOK of all people. Something ain’t right 🤨 that red woman gonna be a issue lol

Willis! His name was Willis! Even with all the crazy stuff GoT has done so far, his death was probably the saddest one of the whole show for me. Never saw it coming in a million years.

He had a self fulfilling prophecy set on him by bran as a child and the warg vision of his own death was so traumatic and intense that he could say nothing else after it but “Hodor” so sad and beautiful that he knew it was gonna happen and went along anyway. Can’t wait for you guys to see the rest. This is my favorite season. Some of these episodes are undoubtedly the best in TV history

Hodor is a hero. Hodor saw his own death as a boy, Willis swallowed, but still fulfilled his mission and did not abandon Bran, despite knowing that his end was so terrifying, kept repeating the word: Hodor, hodor....😣😭 never to forget his mission, it is very sad.😔

I never gave a crap about Hodor, but this episode completely broke me.. SO well done!

Y’all mad at Bran but why didn’t 3eyed raven tell him this shit could happen. U tell a kid not to do something, of course they want to do that thing even more. Lol I just found 2 people who aren’t mad at Sansa at this point. Y’all about to meet the best character in all of GoT!!! So excited for what’s to come, I can’t BEAR it!!!!

Lieutenants are the white walkers, the others are just zombies - wights

"How do you know it's not just a coincidence he died like that?" - Rob "Hodor?" - Hodor

She knew they were there cause she saw her breath and the breath of Hodor and Bran. Its super cold in the cave now when it wasnt before so thats how she knew.

One of the saddest sacrifices any character in anything has ever made. Not only did Hodor sacrifice his life but he sacrificed his sanity for like 30 years from when Bran warged him in the past up until his death. Shakespeare couldn't write a tragedy that sad.

Not one tear was shed among the five of you for Hodor?? Y'all got hearts of STONE, man. I bawled like a fucking baby.

Hodor took care of Bran since he was a child. It broke my heart when I noticed "Hodor" wasn't only his name, but his entire life purpose D:

Rob's end rap . . 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 My Hodor theory is that since Bran was warging into the past, when he tried to control Hodor in the "present" he ended up doing it in both times. Willis (Hodor in the past) was traumatized and overloaded in some way from seeing the moment of his own death.

I cried so much after this episode. I could barely speak and my sister just laughed and walked away.

It's not about infinite universes, it's called a Bootstrap Paradox. Basically "a theoretical paradox of time travel that occurs when an object or piece of information sent back in time becomes trapped within an infinite cause-effect loop in which the item no longer has a discernible point of origin, and is said to be “uncaused” or “self-created”."

i cried when i watched this episode for the first time. and i’ve rewatched it a couple of times already. STILL MAKES ME CRY even after all this time

not only "hold the door" was trending topic in twitter... it was on youtube rewind that year... (when YT rewind was awesome )

There was a time when some young boys were castrated to preserve their 'angelic' voices in choir, as women were not permited to join. There were also eunuchs who were meant to protect harems and serve women. It was thought that was the only way to make sure they wouldn't rape or defile the women of important men.

Bran was warged into Hodor when he went back, and then he warged into Hodor (Willis) when he was younger at the same time. When young Hodor fell down and had the seizure, it was at the same day that grown Hodor was beginning to die. So part of young Hodor died at that time and he experienced it. That's why he never went beyond "hodor".

Can’t wait for the thing you know what i mean The thing The thing in that episode *this post was made by no spoiler gang*

Bran warged into Hodor in the past which caused him to hear “Hold the door” and fuked him up

I have a theory concerning the Red Priests of the Lord of Light. The priests only seem to be able to read your mind when they are near by you- within arm's reach. And if you notice, the gem around their neck glows softly during all of this. - Melissandre said "You know nothing John Snow." But only after she got him to start thinking about Ygritte during their conversation. She also got pretty close to Jon with that necklace before her creepy line. - The red priestess that talks to Varis spouts a bunch of distracting bullshit while slowly creeping closer and closer to him. She gets pretty close before freaking him out with his own castration story. I think that each of the priests reaches a level of trust within their cult that gives them the right to have thier own magic necklace. Fooling people with manipulation, drugs, sleight of hand, and other tricks is impressive. But straight up reading your mind is some of that rare, subtle Thrones magic.

That freestyle at the end was the best thing Rob has ever done on GOT reaction.

Hodor and young Hodor are the same mind, Bran made him see, and experience his own death and the only thing he could ever say is Hodor.

This episode is crazy, I knew about “hold the door” thing before I even start watching game of thrones 😂 RIP Hodor

The Iron born are drowned and they're ''bought back'' hence what is dead may never die. all Iron born go through this ritual. watch some TalkingThrones or Alt Shift X about some things like how Bran powers work as you're missing a lot of information from the books and they're put in a very easy and understandable way which also includes all the information

In the books there are reports of people chopping off their limbs because of grayscale but if doesnt often work.

It's clear (from the information only up to this episode) that Bran isn't just having visions; he's actually moving through time and can change the past. But like the 3 Eyed Raven said, "the past is written, the ink is dry." So anything he could change he already has (or eventually will). The questions and theories raised by this (and by his father possibly hearing him) are very interesting to think about.

That ending guys. It just blew my mind. A real paradox there. Thank you Hodor.

I still think its said we will never get to see the Children of the Forest at the full extent of their power. At this point magic was still only returning to the world. The firebombs are just minute forms of magic compared to what they had in the past. In the past the children could collapse continents and bring forth great floods using the old magic. There used to be an old land bridge from Essos to Westeros that the first men used to reach the continent and in their war the Children tore the land asunder to stop more coming to their land. When the Andals came and declared war on the first men and the Children, they brought a flood that separated the south from the north, creating Moat Cailin which is still guarded by the Reeds (Jojen and Meera’s family) to this day (they’re rumoured to be the closest direct descendants of crossbreeds between the first men and the Children which is why they’re all so small and magically aware). If the Children were able to survive that attack they possibly could have returned to their former strengths and worked to bring back their race and fight against the white walkers again beside men. With the death of Leaf and her friends the Children of the Forest are now extinct. Only the minds of their ancestors exist now within the Weirwoods in the north.

I'm actually hooked on these reaction videos

The moment I found out what Hodor meant, i couldn't help think of the Favorite Saying in "The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan". “The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.”

By giving him a command to heal himself and come back to her, it gave him a purpose. It was exactly what he needed to hear. I loved how Darrio was there to witness her reaction and showed how she really did love him. After he had thrown it in Jorahs face constantly.

Love these reactions so damn much. You guys don't hold anything back. But I can't get the comparison of Rob + Appa out of my head.

It's not all that crazy and it shouldn't confuse you. What happens in this episode is based on the idea of traditional time travel, spacetime is linear. It's just one timeline. So when people travel into the past any little thing they change alters the present and future. So then a loop is created in which things in the past happened in order for the present and future to exist but then at the same time the stuff in the past happened because of the future. In other words the past had to happen in order for the future to exist, but the past only happened because of the future exists.

He went back in time to make Hodor’s entire life purpose to hold the door in order to save their lives in that moment because that needed to happen in order to become the king... Hodor was a sacrifice and therefor one of the most important characters. Insane

Hodor’s death disturbed me for months and months and months,the pain does not go away AT ALL

This episode tore my soul apart and stomped on my heart.

Chills 😭

12:25 Meera noticed she can see the breath coming out of everyone indicating that thempreature have fallen . White Walker have this cooling aura around then, hence why there is this blizzard following them around.

Bran doesnt look into the past he travels into the past so him trying to warg into hodor led him to warg both future and past hodor

His name was Wylis. I think that Hodor as a kid gets stuck saying Hodor for the rest of his life because of his link to the future, in the past. I believe that’s why his sentence gets choppier every time he say it. I believe it because the fear & panic he endured mentally in the moment he held the door kept growing to the point his thoughts became incoherent, not to mention the fact that he was getting ripped apart. I believe that connect caused the death of his future not just his future self development, because his being connected to his future death kill a part of his past/present self. Like the knowledge & opportunity of seeing into the future forcefully (bcuz Bran did that shit when he looked into his eyes, while hearing the present warnings & yells) was to great of a power he had no business messing with, because it wasn’t his power to use. Basically Wylis got stuck in a loophole of his own death which allows his be present but keeps him prisoner, with no escape from it until his death. & in one world/dimension bran can travel through Wylis/Hodor gets his peace in the end. Yet in another world(s)/demension(s) he get no relief because his death only means he will be stuck suffering till death, every time he dies it’s a relief & a curse at the same time. This episode made me cry at 1st then when the episode ended I sat there thinking why & came to this conclusion & really cried. Then started thinking about family curses (like addictions or cancer or violence or deformations or miscarriages or death) & I was depressed for about 2-3 days. Then I thought maybe this is why it’s an episode a week.

The 2nd half of this season is gonna be so great can't wait. They in for a real big surprise at the start of Thursday episode too.

Guy 2nd on the left trying his hardest not to cry was very endearing. ;)

I wonder if Hodor remembers it or if his mind is just destroyed beyond "Hodor". Because if so, imagine him watching Bran grow up like "oh its that kid"

I always new Hodor was short for hold the door but that was just an assumption. I didn’t actually know why he said it until now but the reason is pretty incredible. He was mind fucked by a time traveling warg.

I don't know how you guys kept from crying during the end?Even though I've seen this episode a few times,I still tear up quite a bit.😥

"The past is already written. The ink is dry."

Whoa!!! Patric ain't got no nervous jokes like the red wedding or other tragic endings? Shook, I am shook...

I still get goosebumps with that ending

For real though, you set up your playlists real nice with the rando Titles. I found exactly what I wanted.

If you have seen "the flash" you can understand these kind of stuff easily. Bran is kind of flash without the running 😂 He can do it with his mind power, that way more powerful than the flash 🤔 And that's one scene that makes me sad, other than shereens death (i dont cry for John Snow or for the red wedding, but was shocked)

Always remember: writers can use two types of time travel. Alternate Timeline. Or Stable Time Loop. Harry Potter, movie 3, Prisoner of Azakban: That morning, Harry and Hermione get hit by stones which alerts them that an executioner is coming to kill Buckbeck, they refused to watch Buckbeak be killed and only heard an ax fall, and then by that night, when Harry's godfather was to be executed, they were asking Dumbledore to please believe he's innocent. Which makes it click in Dumbledore's mind what really happened and he suggests Harry and Hermione return to that morning. They threw the stones at themselves. They snuck Buckbeak away and the execution swung his ax in frustration. Harry cast the spell that saved his own life. And they saved his godfather in a Stable Time Loop. Another classic example would simply be John Conner sending his own father back in time to actually conceive him with Sarah in The Terminator. Part of the grim tragedy of that story is that since it is a Stable Time Loop, nothing can be done to actually change the "future" up to the point of John sending his dad/best friend back because, duh, it's a stable loop, and John wouldn't exist if the machines-take-over circumstances don't create his birth. Alternate Timeline is when the writer doesn't bother remembering all that and just accepts that anything the time traveler does to change the past won't affect his future, but will make a better world for an alternate timeline. Cable and the Age of Apocky in X-Men, Future Trunks in Dragonball Z. So. Bran used his mental connection with Hodor to travel into the past, where the stress of the attack gave teen Hodor a seizure and made him repeat the command he wouldn't actually hear for 30 years... Hodor grew up into a simple servant in the Stark family, and went on the adventure with Bran and his last work for his young lord was to hold the door and help him escape. .... Touching.... But why is this IN the story? Is Bran going to do this with someone else? Who else could Bran have already influenced like this?

Here is a theory to twist your noodle. Bran worgs into the man who becomes the Night King. He gets stuck there and that why he and the Night King have that connection. They are the same person. Why else does the Night King act with a fore thought in so many situations.

I’ve been waiting for y’all to get to this episode😂😭👌🏾

I think the reason he had his Hodor seizure in the past was because bran is the conduit to past and present and when Meera screamed hold the door past Hodor could hear because bran was close to both of them

I have watched this series in entirety 3 times and was hit by a huge wave of despair when I realized this was "the episode"

The whole "Hold the door/Hodor" thing is one of the few things I've enjoyed of the non-canon stuff. It's actually an interesting way to explain why he started saying that, out of nowhere. It's not canon, though. There's no real explanation for why he says it. It's just a thing he says. But the TV version is interesting, at least.

That's the reason why the Three Eyed Raven showed Brant that memory in particular. That he transported Bran to that specific memory when the Night King attacked. That is why he said to Bran to "listen to your friend". The Three Eyed Raven knew what would happen, and that it HAD to happen that way. Bran was "always" supposed to become the Three Eyed Raven, and that is what happened. And Wyllis saved Bran for him to be the Three Eyed Raven.

He tried warging before leaving the past...fried Willis brain and left him with one goal,one purpose,and one thought. Hold the door!

Book Euron: *Intimidating and interesting character* Show Euron: "BiG cOcK!"

Who’s that knocking at my door! Gut wrenching episode.

"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff."

This episode still makes me cry 😭

"I thought it was just coincidence" 😆😆😆

Someone's probably already mentioned this, but I believe it's called a *_predestination paradox,_* or _bootstrap paradox_ in the vernacular. Wherein a _present-day_ (or future) event causes one to go back into the past. That trip to the past then results in causing the very same present-day event to begin with ─ forming a causal loop in which both events are caused by each other. As this messes with my head, here is a wiki explaination that might be more clear then my scribblings: _A paradox in which the consequences of an event in the future travel back in time and cause an event in the past or present, which in turn is among the causes of the first event, forming a loop._ They just started calling him *Hodor* as he grew up because that is all he said. His real name was *_Walder._* Great reaction. As always. 😅

I've reviewing reactions getting ready for the April premiere. My favorite part is my man on the left letting his chicken leg marinate for a second as the undead blow through that burrow. But for real, good commentary. Look forward to the final season.

I still cry on this episode

The first episode of any show to make me tear up.

LOVE YOU GUYS!! Keep these reactions coming!! This season is amazing.... and it only gets better.... And MERRY CHRISTMAS, BOYS! 😉🎄🎁

He controlled him in the past to control him in the future. That was the seizure that happened when he was a kid

Hodor sacrificed his entire life to save them, affected by his sacrifice for his whole life.

I love all the defending of Sansa! Woo! You go! Thanks!!!

Such a sad episode, after: The Red Wedding Oberyn's death & Jon's death This one caught us by surprise. No one thought that his very name was his fate.😦😔😢

It’s kinda simple. When Brah appears in the past he’s truly in the PAST.

Best death scene in tv history. I guess witnessing and living through your own death as a young man messes you up. How good of a person was he that he still saved Bran? You know you will die but you follow the path. There's one scene where Bran says "I saw you as a boy. You could talk. What happened?". Hodor just says Hodor and hes actually saying "You did".

The way I see it is that Bran can't change anything, he can just give "context" to things that already took place.

Not coincidence....HOLD THE DOOR is HODOR..., One of the saddest episodes, and best!

the bloke on a pink shirt was like he is ready to fight all the white walkers lmao

As soon as I saw this episode was up I thought "man these guys just went through it"

"Not all heroes hold weapons, some just hold the door" The Three Eyed Raven

This death was a fucking full on paradox…. Past present and future all happening at the same time…..really fucked with me after I had to chill for a bit and think about my life

1000 ships from an island of no trees.

I think we they "see" into the past or present they actually partially physically go there. And most people can't see them but they can hear whispers. But for some reason the Nights King can see them and that's how he was able to touch Bran because he was physically there. So in other words when they see into the past their time traveling.