The plotlines of the show have long since shot past what’s in George R.R. Martin’s books, whose own finale may be many years away.
LOS ANGELES — Devoted “Game of Thrones” fans who’ve watched and re-watched all 73 episodes of the HBO series, and read and reread all 4,000 pages of the books by George R.R. Martin, will at long last get the ending they’ve craved with the series’ eighth and final season that starts Sunday.The plotlines of the show have long since shot past what’s in Martin’s books, whose own finale may be many years away.
That did indeed happen, and by season six warrior and king-in-the-making Jon Snow had been resurrected and went back to trying to save the world, while he still lies stabbed to death in a mutiny in the books. “It doesn’t seem any less planned out to me,” Stachler said. “It’s absolutely a continuation of his vision. I always felt like the show cleaned up the narrative in tighter, better-paced ways anyway.”“I think you’ve seen that in the last couple of seasons where you don’t have the book as guide, you just go from one big event to another to another, without that feeling of the backstory,” said Gabriela Perez, 44, of Mexico City.
“I do think this last season is going to be the largest cultural moment we’ve had in a long time for any kind of branded property,” Stachler said. “I don’t know what to compare it to. I don’t know when we’ll see something this big again.”“Everybody has an idea,” Voulgaris aid. “It literally could go in any direction.”
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