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This post contains spoilers for Game of Thrones Season 6. But like, you had to know that from the headline, right?

You know a show is grisly when you feel grateful that the director didn't make a fan favorite character's death too disturbing.

In a Vanity Fair interview, the director of "The Door," Jack Bender, revealed that Hodor's demise could have been even more disturbing than that of the Red Viper. So like, thanks are required, I guess?

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Bender says that Hodor's flesh was going to be disturbingly torn from his body, as the undead are wont to do.

Luckily, David Benioff and D. B. Weiss decided against the more gruesome death in favor of the classy, implied gruesome death that was shown in the episode.

Bender went further with his description of what could have been in an interview with the Observer.

Good lord, Bender.

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