Hey guys what's up this is going to be a video all about Hodor.
A lot of you have asked for video explaining what's going on with his character the last
time we saw him It was very ambiguous, so just careful for spoilers for everything this
happened through season 6 so far there is a lot of evidence to suggest that were going
to see him again, and there's a number of different ways the show could accomplish that
based on bran's abilities and a couple of key scenes that I'll explain, there is a new
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There are two big ways the show could bring him back.
One is a wight, which would be horrifying and 2, in another bran flashback.
So let's start with the really cool one first Hodor as a wight, so a lot of you have asked
what happened to Hodor after he held the door for Bran and Meera so that they could escape.
So there couple key scenes that sort of explain what's going on and why he might come back
as a white and not white walkers slightly different.
He might come back as a white Walker pending the engines explanation which is another key
scene when he explained how he was slowly being turned into another white Walker himself.
So at the end of episode five.
We get to explainer for his name that's the big reveal, hold the door bran had simultaneously
skin shifted into Hodor and was controlling him to hold the door while he was also in
the past watching what was happening at winter fell he doesn't fully understand how his magic
works yet so it creates this crazy feedback loop that short-circuits some of the language
centers of Hodor's brain.
The way they presented Hodor in the early seasons is that he's simpleminded, but you
learn that he does understand everyone he just the speed centers of his brain that have
been affected.
So in this moment, he sort of gets subconsciously stuck on this future moment he probably never
fully understood what was going on till he was in that moment himself will will will
photo but the other big revelation that we gun in the last season is that the others
or the white walkers have you want to call them there only cold white walkers on the
TV show in the books they're called others.
They have an intelligence of their own they're not just mindless drones the night King is
probably the most powerful person on the planet next to bran right now.
So he wants to swell his rings, but typically dead people are raised as whites not as white
walkers.
So there really fuzzy on the rules for how you create a white Walker we do know that
only the night King can create new white walkers the white walkers themselves can raise whites
one at a time.
But the night King can raise them all at once so very different power levels, but a lot
of it just depends on what their plan is for any given person.
So the reason that the night King probably wanted to turn Benjen and into another white
Walker is because of his skills and his knowledge.
So once you become a white Walker.
You're basically a thrall of the night King.
You do have like your own intelligence and your own agency, but you're bound to him.
So whoever you were before, just completely disappears had Benjen and been fully turned
he would've killed Brandon Mira on the spot but also to Jon right decision Felicity and
the Wolf is arranging they been to the north.
The founders light will stop me and that the sort of Irish that to Joseph some soap to
focus much of textiles have the same way them.
It will cushion the first lease show yourself trying the shot of Dragon glass Constantine
1/2 but what about Hodor it would be a crazy WTF to see him come back in a crowd shot as
a white Walker or as a wight which one would just depend on whether or not you believe
that he died in that moment whether he was ripped to shreds or not, because they can
animate whites that are basically just skeletons this Ray Harryhausen looking wight here is
almost full skeleton from the end of season for, so they're pretty good.
Hodor is not dead in the truest sense of the work and when people asked George RR Martin
about it because Dan and Dave this Hodor twist from him.
He said have you seen a body you know may be odors not that he's very ambiguous about
stuff like that.
So you just left to wonder.
So if there is a chance that he's alive he's probably still alive but not in the way that
you would expect because while Benjen and had the children of the forest to save him
from being turned into a white Walker Hodor does not have that he has an army of whites
that are trying to get through that door they were really clear about it either, but the
actor who plays bran was mostly responding to the Hodor twist like nice one bran-new
piece of this all in motion kill the three eyed Raven and got Hodor killed to but the
even bigger implication is that the children of the forest have died off.
Now that those were like the final surviving members of their race, now part of the reason
I think they're being so ambiguous is because they want bran to be on his own.
He says to Benjen and you know I don't understand my powers.
I didn't get the full explainer from the three eyed Raven before he uploaded all of his knowledge
into my mind which is basically what was happening.
He was unlocking some of brands abilities but at the same time uploading all this knowledge
that he'd accumulated.
So if you want to believe that Hodor is coming back as a white or even a white Walker, although
I think it be more likely that he would be a white he would have to be some moment, that
they would save for the bran character just because it be more meaningful that way in
seeing twisted Hodor and being confronted with his failure.
So there are number of reasons why you could argue that they will not bring Hodor back
is a white.
So typically the big twist on the TV show have some deeper meaning to the story like
the big twist about white walkers being the creation of the children of the forest when
they were fighting the first men in their big war for west roast their whole line of
logic is that they were losing and then they needed a weapon of mass destruction to stop
the first men from completely destroying their race, but in doing so they lost control of
their own creation and now they threatened everyone so it's a big WTF twist but it makes
sense from a narrative perspective you create that thing that will eventually destroy you.
So whoever you're fighting the war against isn't your greatest enemy you are your own
greatest enemy or your failings or your hubris or your weaknesses, it's the same thing with
Cersei Cersei's greatest enemy isn't the faith of the seven or wasn't the faith of the seven
because she took care of them at the end of the season it's really herself.
She will do something that will lead to her own downfall in the way that the children
of the forest.
It.
So I'm less likely to back some big WTF twist theory unless it's in service of wrapping
up a really awesome plot line like the idea that Arya would cross Cersei's name offer
list while at the same time fulfilling the prophecy of the Valonqar by wearing Jamie's
face to read like a crazy WTF twist theory, but it helps.
So up a lot of the logic in the books.
Whether or not the TV show decides to go that route, so let me know.
Do you think that Hodor is going to come back as a white in the future season whether it's
in the books or on the TV show is totally possible if you just go based on the logic
of what they presented.
So far he would have to be a white but it just depends on what types of scenes they
want to do with white walkers in season seven, but in related news, I know a lot of you are
asking about a video ranking the characters based on their magic abilities so I'll be
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