{"id":13333,"date":"2014-09-04T14:05:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T09:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/?p=13333"},"modified":"2019-12-27T06:49:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T01:49:49","slug":"game-of-thrones-season-five-will-go-without-bran-stark-hodor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/game-of-thrones-season-five-will-go-without-bran-stark-hodor\/","title":{"rendered":"Game of Thrones season five will go on without Bran Stark and Hodor"},"content":{"rendered":"

The good news about the next\u00a0Game of Thrones<\/a> season\u00a0will be, we would be having one less storyline to manage. But the bad news is it\u2019s the one with Hodor and Bran Stark.<\/p>\n

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In an\u00a0interview, actor Kristian “Hodor” Nairn confirmed that he’s got the year off:<\/p>\n

“We have a season off from Game of Thrones 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.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The news is disappointing but not surprising. Seasons 3 and 4 of\u00a0Game of Thrones\u00a0covered Book 3 of George R.R. Martin\u2019s\u00a0A Song of Ice and Fire<\/strong>, more or less, but it also pulled in certain elements from Books 4 and 5. The fifth book being\u00a0A Dance with Dragons<\/strong>, the last\u00a0ASOIAF\u00a0novel released to date.<\/p>\n

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Bran and Hodor\u2019s Season 4 storyline in particular relied heavily on material from\u00a0A Dance with Dragons, and even added some scenes invented just for the TV series. Its unlikely Bran and Hodor will be the last characters to face this issue. As many people have pointed out many times before, the TV series is burning through the books much faster than Martin is writing them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The good news about the next\u00a0Game of Thrones season\u00a0will be, we would be having one less storyline to manage. But the bad news is it\u2019s the one with Hodor and Bran Stark. In an\u00a0interview, actor Kristian “Hodor” Nairn confirmed that he’s got the year off: “We have a season off from Game of Thrones 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":13335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[743],"tags":[901],"yoast_head":"\nGame of Thrones season five will go on without Bran and Hodor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The good news about Game of Thrones season 5 is there is one less storyline to manage. 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