Game of Thrones is currently gearing up for its sixth season over at HBO, but as the series moves forward, it continues to get closer and closer to the ultimate end. We already know showrunners Dan Weiss and David Benioff want Game of Thrones to finish its run after Season 8, and now A Song Of Ice And Fire Author George R.R. Martin has sounded off about how he sees the end.
I think you need to have some hope. We all yearn for happy endings in a sense. Myself, I'm attracted to the bittersweet ending.
Martin’s always been a guy who enjoys speaking, and at a recent appearance at Norwestern University, he talked about hoping for a bittersweet ending for the series, a sentiment he’s put out into the universe before. But this time he adds the idea that he feels we all need to have “hope” which is a more positive take on the bittersweet angle than I think many of us have been expecting.
He also noted that he’s always admired J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series, but feels that he tries to change the fantasy realm to be closer to reality, with people who have both bad and good inside of them.
The battle between good and evil is fought within the individual human heart. Between all of us, every day and every year. People who do noble and heroic things on Tuesday may do some vile and selfish things on Wednesday.
Although Martin does occasionally write an episode of Game of Thrones, the man is mostly known as the mastermind behind the book series that informs the HBO drama. Still, while Game of Thrones has made plenty of changes from the books to streamline them for the small screen, many of the overall arcs remain the same. Plus, while the last couple of books in the A Song Of Ice and Fire series haven’t been published yet, Martin has met with Weiss and Benioff to talk about the broad strokes of where the series is ultimately headed so that the two storytelling narratives don’t end up too far apart from one another where the big things are concerned.
Adjectives like “bittersweet” and “hope” aren’t super spoiler-y or anything, but considering the way Season 5 left off, with many characters either dead, suffering or in peril, the idea of the series ending on a hopeful note is pretty appealing at this point.
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