And when the men arrived, conflict ensued. These are the "elves" of Game of Thrones. They lived in the land now known as Westeros long before the First Men arrived. The first dealt with the weird, branchy-looking folk we know as the Children of the Forest. North of the Wall had all the best bits in Sunday night's episode of Game of Thrones. Beyond the tragic revelations surrounding Hodor, we had two other important moments. It's cold, but I feel warm from all the revelations. Let's stay here in the frozen wastes beyond the Wall for a while. He sacrificed himself, and his entire life, for this brief moment. This was touching and tragic and powerful. The show has done something special tonight, something unexpected but not simply for shock and awe. Truly moved and a little flabbergasted, to boot. His whole entire life was fated for this one moment, for him to hold the door against an unspeakable evil, to save a boy and a girl. Hodor isn't just a big dumb giant of a man, he's a hero. Diversions from the book were either welcome but not terribly important-much of the streamlining in the show, for instance-or infuriating and pointless, like the burning of Stannis's daughter.īut this came as a huge surprise to me. Many of the biggest and most terrible events-Ned's beheading or the Red Wedding or the wickedness of Ramsay Snow-were in the first five of George R.R. In all six seasons of Game of Thrones I have never once felt truly surprised and moved at the same time.
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