RevelationS…plural.
They blew me away. They blew me away because they were clearly and obviously George RR Martin ideas and not the usual fan-fiction stuff that Benioff and Weiss do.(Which I enjoy for what it is.) And they were some of the biggest revelation, about issues that fans have been talking about for decades, perhaps.
Just be clear we got:
- Clear evidence that fire does not stop White Walkers like it does Wights
- Proof that White Walkers/Others were created by the Children of the Forest to help them fight off the First Men
- Proof that Bran can, affect the past in a profound way.
- Proof that Hodor’s condition was caused by a time-traveling Bran.
The moment worked so well because the series is really all about moral choices. Bran was forced into making a typically Martin-esque choice: harm Hodor in the past to save himself and Meera and doom; or do nothing, and they all die. The horrifying aspect of it is not that Hodor died—Valar Morghulis—but that he spent so many years(decades in the show, I believe Book-Hodor is much younger) disabled just to enable the last moment.
I’ve sat by idly for five seasons while my girlfriend gasped in astonishment at things I already knew were going to happen.
This time I felt like a newbie again. It was nice. A pity I had to get them on TV rather than through the books, but I still enjoyed it.
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