Game of Thrones: Hold the Door. Clip from “The Door” (Season 6, Episode 5), broadcast ten years ago on May 22, 2016. For this episode, Jack Bender was nominated for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series.
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Game of Thrones: Hold the Door. Clip from “The Door” (Season 6, Episode 5), broadcast ten years ago on May 22, 2016. For this episode, Jack Bender was nominated for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series.
by verissimoallan
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Bender lost to Miguel Sapochnik, who won that year for the episode “Battle of the Bastards”.
Random trivia: the showrunners confirmed that the big twist in the episode involving Hodor was one of many revelations made to them by George R.R. Martin. The only other information from Martin that Benioff and Weiss confirmed to the audience was >!Stannis burning Shireen and Bran becoming king at the end of the story.!<
In a 2020 interview, Martin said he liked the scene in the TV series, but revealed that the context of that scene in the book he is currently writing, The Winds of Winter, will be different:
>”I thought they executed it very well, but there are going to be differences in the book,” Martin said. “They did it very physical — ‘hold the door’ with Hodor’s strength. In the book, Hodor has stolen one of the old swords from the crypt. Bran has been warging into Hodor and practicing with his body, because Bran had been trained in swordplay. So telling Hodor to ‘hold the door’ is more like ‘hold this pass’ — defend it when enemies are coming — and Hodor is fighting and killing them. A little different, but same idea.”
>For the show, the writers felt it would more clearly and visually communicate the concept of “hold the door” if Hodor was shown using his bulk against a door.
>”For our purpose, holding the door is visually better, especially because we have so much fighting,” co-producer Dave Hill noted.
Source: [https://ew.com/tv/george-rr-martin-hodor-hodor-hodor/](https://ew.com/tv/george-rr-martin-hodor-hodor-hodor/)
Turns out Bran being able interact with the past across space and time had literally no significant impact on the story overall.
It still cracks me up someone guessed this way back in 2008
https://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?/topic/26325-what-does-hodor-mean/page/2/#comment-1236249
This is the worst part of the late show for me is the fact that this is obviously the “canon” book answer but it was wrapped up in such a shit blanket.
Such a great scene at the time but had absolutely no meaning by the end. Such a travesty.
Wtf how was thay 10 years ago? Time flies
This was a pretty epic scene when it aired, I recall. Of course at that time we all expected it to mean something with Bran and everything.