Game of Thrones Season 8: The Death of Hope
I'm not going to swear an oath I can't uphold. When enough people make false promises, words stop meaning anything. Then there are no more answers, only better and better lies. - Jon Snow (GoT, Season 7, "The Dragon and the Wolf") Countless takes have been written about Game of Throne 's final season, Season 8, since the final episode aired on May 19, 2019. That said, my outrage is still fresh, and I have a perspective that I have not seen entirely covered elsewhere. As any fan of A Song of Ice and Fire knows, George RR Martin was and is still working on the sixth novel in the series , The Winds of Winter . There is no official ending to the series, and there may not ever be. Therefore, many fans of the novels took solace in the fact that Martin's intended ending would appear, in some form, in Season 8. Flash forward to May 19, 2019, and the collective riot nearly took down the Internet (though actually the riot began the week before, after the episode, &