It may be a bittersweet ending for Daenerys Targaryen.
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George R.R. Martin’s comments about how his series Game of Thrones will end are nearly as hard to figure out as all the fan theories about Jon Snow. “Myself, I’m attractive to the bittersweet ending”, Martin said.
A promotional trailer for the hugely popular hit US TV series Game of Thrones is being filmed in Moscow for the upcoming launch of the series on Russian TV. “I think [J.R.R. Tolkien] did this brilliantly”, he continued. “I didn’t understand that when I was a kid – when I read ‘Return of the King'”. His world has been tainted forever.
As the character Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon) put it best in Season 3, episode 6: “If you think this has a happy ending, you haven’t been paying attention”. Now, however, he has a different view, as reported by Vulture: Tolkien’s use of allegory to reveal life’s grittier truths (the tragedy of post-war Britain in the late ’40s and early ’50s, in the case of Lord of the Rings), even in the face of a well-earned victory is brilliant.
Episode 2 also ended in a cliffhanger. “I think, by now, the answer is, I can’t“.
In a discussion with Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism on Wednesday, George R.R. Martin reflected on his career, the state of science fiction, and hinted at what the end of the novel series that inspired HBO’s Emmy-winning show could look like.
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“It’s made me have a certain sympathy for the teenage assholes that are running around out there, the Justin Biebers and the Lindsay Lohans”, he said.
