Game of Throne "The Door" (S6 - E05) [TV Review]

Mother have mercy on us all!
The was quite an episode, was it not?

This was nothing at all like the Kingsmoot in the books... nothing!

4.5 out of 5 stars

 I'm going to do my very best to avoid just giving a synopsis - because so much amazing stuff occured in this episode. At the same time, be very warned -
THERE ARE SPOILERS AHEAD!

I am so mad that I cannot give this episode a full 5 stars... again for some really nitpicky crap that bothered me.
Let me start with the Kingsmoot. I know that there was probably no way that they could have pulled off the book version in the ribs of a giant sea beast. But they could have tried something. There was none of the careful manipulations of the book version. This was boring. Also, Euron Greyjoy, the Crow's Eye is supposed to have only one eye - the left socket covered by a patch. His lips are blue because he drinks shade of the evening (the same stuff the warlocks drink). He is the captain of the Silence, a ship whose crew have had their tongues removed. He is supposed to travel with a menagerie of freaks and has the 'Dragon Horn' (which is sounded during the Kingsmoot - killing the sounder). All of that spectacle is gone. All of it. He does not even wear an eye patch. I know this is nit-picky but damn it I really really wanted some of the spectacle written about in the book.

Creepy creepy Hall of Faces.

J'accuse!

Oh good. Another Red Priestess. I wonder how old this one really is?

The second is the play in Bravos. I kinda felt the way Arya felt... it was so juvenile (I suppose that was intentional, but I didn't really like it.)

Enough grousing.  

There was a lot that was very good.

Some of the absolutely shocking freaking reveals were just so unexpected.

I guess I'll warn you again.
SPOILERS AHEAD!

The very fact that the children of the forest were the ones who first created the White Walkers was so unexpected. I did not see that coming at all... not one bit. I assumed that they were in someway a natural force that arose in whatever messed up cosmology that surrounds GRRM's world. This was astonishing.

My next favorite scene was the one where Varys was literally rendered speechless by a new Red Priestess. She knew things about him that he was not expecting to have revealed... he was literally aghast. His expression was perfect. Stunned, shocked, horrified silence.

I've never seen nor read about Varys in such a state.

But what the hell did he hear as his 'parts' burned in the fire? What? Tell us damn you!

The last most epic scene was two fold. We have been told (in the books at least - I'll admit sometimes I cannot help but refer to them) that those who see with a third eye, or at least those who see through the werewood, are not bound by time. So there was a question... can the past be affected by the actions of one who see through trees? After Bran shouted at his father, and his father turned... it appeared as if Bran can affect the past. Today we learned that was absolutely true. What is this going to mean for the future? I'm still hoping beyond all hope that we get to see inside the Tower of Joy, we've seen the Showdown at the Red Mountains - now show us what Ned Stark and Howland Reed saw. We must know. 

We learned where Hodor got the name Hodor and why.
In the present he was told to "Hold the Door."
And in the past, his younger self was attacked by a seizure in which he repeats over and over and over and over that phrase - "Hold the Door."
And he holds the door.
He holds the damn door.
He dies holding the door so that Bran and Mira can flee into the snow storm.

Damn it.

In Memory of Hodor.
Hodor.
"Hold the Door."

That was a very good episode.
But now lets take a look at who died in it.

Death Count for season six episode five, The Door:
- The Three-Eyed Raven
- Summer (damn them all... that only leaves 2 wolves: Ghost and Nymeria).
- A White Walker
- Leaf and three other Children of the Forest
- Wylis "Hodor"

Previous Game of Thrones reviews:

Season 6:
- The Red Woman (Ep1)
- Home (Ep2)
- Oathbreaker (Ep3) - No Review
- Book of the Stranger (Ep4)

Season 5:
- The Wars to Come (Ep1)
- The House of Black and White (Ep2)
- High Sparrow (Ep3)
- Sons of the Harpy (Ep4)
- Kill the Boy (Ep5)
- Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken (Ep6)
- The Gift (Ep7)
- Hardhome (Ep8)
- The Dance of Dragons (Ep9)
- Mother's Mercy (Ep10)

Season 4:
- Two Swords (Ep1)
- The Lion and the Rose (Ep2)
- Breaker of Chains (Ep3)
- Oathkeeper (Ep4)
- The First of His Name (Ep5)
- The Laws of Gods and Men (Ep6) 
- Mockingbird (Ep7)
- The Mountain and the Viper (Ep8)
- The Watchers on the Wall (Ep9)
- The Children (Ep10)