I have seen people mutilated, murdered, castrated, raped, burned alive, head smashed, getting their skulls crushed with bare hands, and pregnant women being killed at their own weddings.
None of that hit me as hard as Hold The Door. I can't say I have ever cried before, watching a Game of Thrones episode. E wry thing from Ned Stark to Robb, to Oberyn to Jon and Princess Shireen, it had shock and awe. Except for when they burned Princess Shireen, I never cried at any of the deaths.
Willys made me cry hard. And I mean hard. The fact that he knew all his life about that particular moment is what makes it so much heartbreaking. He knew from the that small age that he was destined to hold the door. He spent his entire life knowing that he has to hold the door whenever the time comes no matter what it's for. That explains his incapacity to do anything and freaking out whenever there was lightning outside or something knocking at the door. In the final moments, he comes to this realisation and holds that door. Bran isn't warging into him anymore in the final moments. He is a free man and he finally knows this is the moment that was waiting for him all his life. When Meera takes off with Bran, Hodor takes over control of his body again. He can hear Meera shouting "Hold the Door" and he can now understand what happened to him. Imagine if in the last 20 seconds of his life, he finally understood what happened to him as a boy, 40 years ago, and that no matter what, he had to hold that door.
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. Heartless show-runners.
