Game of Thrones season 6: Hodor finally said something that wasn't 'Hodor'
After five seasons of Hodoring
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Your support makes all the difference.Hodor, Game of Thrones' only exclusively disyllabic character, has finally shown a little less brevity.
*SPOILERS AHEAD*
During a very brief flashback facilitated by the Three-Eyed Raven, Bran saw his late father Ned as a boy in training in Winterfell alongside his sister Lyanna.
Ned beckoned over a boy named Wyllis, who turned out to be none other than a young Hodor. Yes, his name isn't Hodor after all, it's Wyllis. Wyllis.
And what was the first proper sentence we heard from him? Some poetic madness? No, it was small talk.
"And lowers it, when he's going to dodge, m'lady", he told Lyanna of her Benjin's head movements during battle.
The flashback didn't offer any clues as to why Willis became of a nervous disposition and lost the ability to speak properly. Nor did it tease the most intriguing element - what the hell 'hodor' actually means, though I'm sure we will find out in due course. It did however show that Hodor/Wyllis wasn't "slow" before whatever trauma he suffered.
Interesting a moment though it was, Hodor's backstory was upstaged by major updates on Jon Snow's condition at the end of the episode. There's more on that here.
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