Did You Catch that Game of Thrones Apology?
The Game of Thrones showrunners apologized for “The Door” earlier this week.
Game of Thrones has grown so large that it’s just about impossible to actually avoid spoilers at this point. If you’re tuned into pop culture at all and no watching Game of Thrones, you’re going to get spoiled. It’s just the nature of the beast right now, for better or worse. That means that even if you haven’t watched last week’s episode, “The Door,” you likely already know the twist.
Whether you do or don’t, pop culture doesn’t particularly care. That’s where Jimmy Kimmel Live! comes in. Kimmel ran a short video earlier this week featuring the Game of Thrones showrunners, David Benioff and D. B Weiss. In the clip, which you can watch below, the two apologize for “The Door.” Not so much because they broke fan’s hearts, but because of the monster that they’ve created.
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Kimmel is careful not to directly mention Hodor’s shocking reveal, but all bets are off once the camera is on Benioff and Weiss. The two are not sorry for killing Hodor — they state that they’ve killed over 700 main characters — but for all the “idiots” shouting “Hodor!” when asking for someone to hold a door open. Yes, this is a real thing that everyone is doing.
Ugh.
Game of Thrones will more forward this Sunday without Hodor, though how long “Hodor” jokes and memes will continue to plague mankind is not yet clear. All we can do is sit tight, wait for the storm to pass, and hope another main character gets killed before the of the season. This is the penultimate season after all, so another major death isn’t exactly farfetched.
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And if you didn’t know about the death of poor Hodor and the origin of his name, well, such is life.