Game of Thrones Season 6: Inside the Episode #5 (HBO)

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Recommends Ghoti and Chips · 2017-08 · Movies & TV Stack Exchange · on “Were the cave drawings in the mine at Dragonstone authentic?”

It's highly unlikely Jon Snow painted these and lied about it: Jon Snow would somehow have had to brush up on ancient and mystical knowledge on the Children of the Forest's symbology in order to make these seemingly accurate drawings. These symbols you see bear significance in the culture of the Children of the Forest, which in turn is reflected in the White Walkers (which are created by the Children of the Forest) [LINK] The spiral cave painting here on the left coincides with the same geometric pattern that the White Walkers put together using corpses in Season 3. [LINK] Another spiral pattern, here seen in a top-down view of one of an elaborate monument made by the Children of the Forest,

Cites cde · 2016-05 · Movies & TV Stack Exchange · on “Was it Hodor or Bran warged in Hodor's mind at the door?”

Typically, when Bran has warged into Hodor's mind, Hodor's eyes go white like Bran's do. [LINK] Yet, during "The Door" , Old Hodor's eyes go white at first when Bran subconsciously wargs into him to escape, BUT are no longer white while he is holding the door. In the clip, you can clearly see his eyes are not shown as white by the time Hodor is Holding the Door. So it's clearly not Bran forcing him, though warg magic. RIP Hodor, loyal friend. Young Wylis' eyes go white for a second too in the past when Bran unintentionally wargs into him too, but then go back to normal while he suffers from a seizure/stroke/physical brain damage that turns him into Hodor [LINK] . But We can argue that someon

Cites cde · 2016-05 · Movies & TV Stack Exchange · on “Why doesn't Hodor speak?”

As mentioned by others, in S06e05 "The Door" , we see the events that caused young Wylis (Walder in the books) to become Hodor, and only be able to say Hodor. It involves a sort of astral time travel projection. Bran, who is a warg, in that he can project his mind into animals, found out he could warg into Hodor. The characters explain this as Hodor being simpler , not fully human in terms of mental abilities. Bran later finds out he can project his mind through time, with the help of the Three-Eyed Raven. During the episode, Bran screws everything up, which forces the Three-Eyed Raven to push Bran faster and beyond what he is ready for. He starts " uploading " information into Bran, which b

Cites cde · 2016-05 · Movies & TV Stack Exchange · on “Why doesn't Hodor speak?”

According to the "Inside the Episode" [this video] , this event was directly provided by RR Martin to the show producers. So it should be true to the yet to be published books.

Cites Daeron · 2019-04 · Movies & TV Stack Exchange · on “What is the symbolic significance of the Night King's message?”

We don't know the meaning. According to David Benioff, the meaning has not yet been explained. One of the things we learn from these cave paintings is that the White Walkers didn't come up with those images. They derived them from their creators, the Children of the forest. These are patterns that have mystical significance for the Children of the Forest. We're not sure exactly what they signify, but spiral patterns are important in a lot of different cultures in our world, and it makes sense that they would be in this world as well. The one thing we do know is that it was a symbol of the children of the forest. This answer is mostly derived from over here: What was the meaning of this messa