I tried watching it and I thought it sucked ass. Why doesn't she retire?

But Child Hodor's eyes turn white like he's the one warging. So when Hodor's returns to "himself" is it actually his child self in the process of warging through time?

Someone clear this up for me: Is Hodor warging into himself in the future as a child??? Or is Bran warging into Hodor while warging in the past simultaneously?
Child Hodor's eyes turn white, which suggests to me that the former is true. But Bran wargs into Hodor to aid their escape from the tree cave, while this is…

The "incredibly tragic circumstances"? Hahaha. You mean incredibly dumb.

Coldhands looks like a Power Rangers villain.

Its Melisandre's kid sister Milly!

you didnt get to see the dick though

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Kind of corny? It was like Song of Ice and Fire became some children's fantasy adventure out of nowhere.

Incredibly dumb, arbitrary plotting.

Well that's pretty terrible. The idea that Hodor's entire character comes from such an arbitrary sequence of events kind of ruins his character.

Honestly that Hodor scene was cheesy as hell. This is the first time the show has really broken with Martin tonally. And Hodor coming from "Hold the door"? wtf. That's like some Donnie Darko, plain old dumb level of convolution.

Why is Jon Snow's resurrection such a big deal to Melisandre when the Lord of the Light's zombies are a regular plot element of GoT?

Because she was a scrawny teenager… there are girls with slight builds like that.

My problem is that the show never portrays the revenants of The Lord of Light well. This whole episode is built around the suspense that resurrection has never happened before, when it is heavily established in the prior books that whole tribes of worshippers are basically zombies.

How is that part of the dramatic tension when it happens totally randomly? The show implies that the stones have some magical power, then Claire is in a totally random situation, and she transports back in time with a camera pan for no reason. It doesn't even phase her either. She just looks like she'd never left…

How does she transport back to the past though?? Is there some explanation of this in the show or the books? She didn't touch the stones, so how did it happen?

This episode kind of makes last season's finale look like a pointless stunt.

Also the experience of Southern Black Americans is not universal to all people with black skin. They don't all have hot sauce in their bags.

Yeah but the point is that GoT is kind of cavalier about its rape scenes.