Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-1031724-20170821054946/@comment-1031724-20170821205146

Ripett wrote: KillRoy231 wrote: I hope so.

Because I have only ever known one show - other than horror movies - as mature as Game of Thrones: Spartacus, which ended in villain victory. Even though the first two seasons saw victory by Spartacus against the two men responsible for the death of his wife, and against unfavorable odds in Glaber's case, but in the end, he was killed by Marcus Crassus.

Well, in six days, we'll find out, unless the next episode gets spoiled three days ahead of time too. You do realize that Spartacus was loosely based on true story and that most key characters were actual historic characters? Which also mean that Spartacus couldn't end any other way then it did... but it also mean that writers of that show didn't have much choice in how to end the series. I understand there was a historical Spartacus and rebellion, but it is clear that, while being based off a historical event, most of the story was made up, and it likely didn't actually happen that way IRL. For instance, they initially planned to kill Lucretia and Ilithyia at the end of Season 1 but kept them alive until Season 2, and rejected an idea for a subplot of Glaber being in love with his lieutenant, Marcus. There was a real Glaber, but no one knows what happened to him, while the fate of Glaber in the show is a lot less ambiguous. And, guys like Theokoles and the Egyptian do not exist.

Manders87 wrote: I think the last two dragons can be used to take out some of the wights making it easier for Jon or others to take out the white walkers with dragon glass and such. I don't think it's a done deal that the Night King will win in the end, but I do think there will be many deaths and a lot fewer men in Westeros when all is said and done. Yeah, until the Night King spears them too.

And, when I thought the Night King was beatable, and would die in the final episode, I of course suspected it to still be a bloodbath like the Deathly Hallows, especially if that rumor about the last surviving characters was true, it would have to see the deaths of Cersei, Jaime, Sansa, Baelish, Varys, Jorah, the Hound, Beric, Tormund, Brienne, Podrick, Theon, Yara, Euron, Qyburn, Sam, maybe Ellaria, and any other major characters that aren't the five (Tyrion, Jon Snow, Arya, Bran, and Daenerys). Maybe not Daario if he's staying across the Narrow Sea.

Besides, if they do defeat the Night King, with such a big battle ahead, it would still leave Cersei's plan to backstab Daenerys unsolved unless she either gains respect for her during the battle, or gets killed, eliminating that future confrontation altogether.