As another kid with undiagnosed ADHD (until my twenties), I had the exact same thought! If it does turn out to be ADHD, I imagine the show's writers will handle the subject with skill and humor.

She used incorrect in exactly the way she meant to. ;)

My understanding of the scene was the same as yours: that Hodor was being controlled by Bran, and therefore, was more sacrificial lamb than hero.

Ah. I was using "incorrect" as a formal way of saying "wrong," as in: it felt wrong to me. Not factually incorrect.

I couldn't disagree more with that statement! At its best, storytelling shows us our own selves, reflected. It makes us empathize with, rejoice in, and mourn for characters that are nothing more than words on a page or actors on a screen, given shape by our imaginations.

No. I survive on a steady diet of fantasy and science fiction. This just felt like a scene with lazy storytelling. I've loved many other scenes from this show.

Aw, civil discourse on the internet! <3 I can totally see how, if one were engaged in that moment, it would feel devastating. I don't have a better way to explain my reaction other than: the way the scene played took me out of the story, rather than embedded me in it. It's the way I feel about Spielberg, too -…

I'll give it a go, but be forewarned that this is pre-coffee.

It felt cheap to me, too. I was upset with how unaffected I felt, and I was unaffected because it felt like rushed, shitty storytelling. Hodor was one of my favorite characters, and this felt incorrect & unearned.