The good news: next season’s Game of Thrones will have one less storyline to juggle. The bad news: it’s the one with Hodor and Bran Stark. (Caution: minor spoilers ahead.)
‘Game of Thrones’ season five will go on without Hodor
But look! Rave of Thrones!
But look! Rave of Thrones!
In an interview with Yahoo, actor Kristian “Hodor” Nairn confirmed that he’s got the year off:
“We have a season off and we have a year’s hiatus, solely because I imagine our storyline is up to the end of the books... So, I get my year off now to do Rave of Thrones and gallivant all over the world.”
Indeed, as SlashFilm points out, there really isn’t much else to the Bran / Hodor adventures on paper — at least, not until George RR Martin publishes the next A Song of Ice and Fire novel. Still, it’s sad to see the writers didn’t just find a random excuse to check in on the dynamic duo.
Oh, and Rave of Thrones is real. Nairn played his first show last week in Sydney:
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