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Spoilers regarding characters missing from the next season of HBO's Game of Thrones below...
For the first time (that's not due to a big shocking death or someone simply heading off somewhere else) some major characters, who we've been following since the very first episodes of the series, won't be appearing on a season of HBO's Game of Thrones.
Kristian Nairn, who plays Hodor on the series, recently spoke to Australia's 7.30 and revealed that he and co-star Isaac Hempstead-Wright, who plays Bran Stark, have a year off from the show.
MONIQUE SCHAFTER: Fans around the world are hungry for the next series of Game of Thrones, but they'll have to be patient.
KRISTIAN NAIRN: We're not actually in Season 5, by the way. We have a season off. We have a year's hiatus.
MONIQUE SCHAFTER: Really?
KRISTIAN NAIRN: Solely because, I imagine, our storyline is up to the end of the books. So I get a year off now to do Rave of Thrones and gallivant all over the world.
Nothing has been confirmed by Hempstead-Wright, HBO, or producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, but we do know that, according to Nairn, Hodor has a year off. And since he wasn't killed the last time we saw him - when Bran, Hodor, and Meera entered the lair of the Three-Eyed Raven - we're presuming that the entire storyline's on hold.
Which is certainly one way to handle the juggling of storylines as the series catches up ever-so-quickly with George R.R. Martin's books - a growing concern for fans these days. It's doubtful the show will ever leave out marquee characters like Tyrion and Daenerys, but could this tactic work for other roles? Theon/Reek could surely vanish for a spell. But what about the Stark girls, Arya and Sansa? Jon and Sam? What do you guys think (no book spoilers though)?
For the first time (that's not due to a big shocking death or someone simply heading off somewhere else) some major characters, who we've been following since the very first episodes of the series, won't be appearing on a season of HBO's Game of Thrones.
Kristian Nairn, who plays Hodor on the series, recently spoke to Australia's 7.30 and revealed that he and co-star Isaac Hempstead-Wright, who plays Bran Stark, have a year off from the show.
MONIQUE SCHAFTER: Fans around the world are hungry for the next series of Game of Thrones, but they'll have to be patient.
KRISTIAN NAIRN: We're not actually in Season 5, by the way. We have a season off. We have a year's hiatus.
MONIQUE SCHAFTER: Really?
KRISTIAN NAIRN: Solely because, I imagine, our storyline is up to the end of the books. So I get a year off now to do Rave of Thrones and gallivant all over the world.
Nothing has been confirmed by Hempstead-Wright, HBO, or producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, but we do know that, according to Nairn, Hodor has a year off. And since he wasn't killed the last time we saw him - when Bran, Hodor, and Meera entered the lair of the Three-Eyed Raven - we're presuming that the entire storyline's on hold.
Which is certainly one way to handle the juggling of storylines as the series catches up ever-so-quickly with George R.R. Martin's books - a growing concern for fans these days. It's doubtful the show will ever leave out marquee characters like Tyrion and Daenerys, but could this tactic work for other roles? Theon/Reek could surely vanish for a spell. But what about the Stark girls, Arya and Sansa? Jon and Sam? What do you guys think (no book spoilers though)?
