How will George R.R. Martin’s final “Game of Thrones” books end?

GRRM has squandered his story for TV shows and prequels. He can make excuses in his mind but the truth is he will never finish AAOIAF

The ending wasn't the problem, Dany dying is predictable from day one. The tragedy was how they rushed and absolutely butchered the character developments.

Won’t matter who’s ending is “better” George’s is the true ending.

The answer is of course: "they won't".

After watching season 8, it seems like David and Dan were just a little too committed to the idea that the show should end after 7 (or 8) seasons, and ended up not giving themselves enough time to let the story reach its natural conclusion. I didn’t even necessarily have a problem with the way things turned out for most of the characters. But the way we reach those story arch conclusions ends up just not making sense, presumably because the characters we know haven’t had time to develop into the personalities they were intended to become by the end of the series. Up until the last 3 seasons or so, the show follows the books extremely faithfully. Basically scene for scene most of the time. Often word for word. Then all of a sudden the show catches up to the books, and the pace the story is being told at starts accelerating. Faster and faster the closer you get to the until, until all of a sudden the characters are just changing their whole personalities on a dime within a single scene. No foreshadowing, no natural progression into the personality they end up with… Example: I could see Jamie Lannister developing back into the evil character he once was early in the series. Could totally believe and accept that if it were to play out over the course of a few seasons. But it doesn’t. He goes back to Cersei as the good guy, comes to Winterfell to fight the white walkers as a good guy, acts and behaves like a good guy… then all of a sudden changes his mind and goes back to the character we knew in season 1 within the course of one scene, with zero prior indication to even make you suspect that he might. That’s either lazy writing, or it’s rushed writing by someone who is trying to squeeze an entire book’s worth of material into a 6 episode season, and coming up short.

I read the script of the last episode of the series The Iron Throne, and it wasn't even written well.

so dany will die anyway.... jesus

Okay so I’m pretty sure the series is complete he is just stalling to release until he dies so he doesn’t have to listen to critiques trashing his work because it took so long and wasn’t exactly how they wanted it. If he never releases it he knows how it ends.
D&D should have stopped at season 6 finale when the source material ran out. Ruining the show probably ruined the chance of us seeing the end of the novels since they ruined it.

It’s 2022 and we still don’t know how it ends

Secondary characters = jamie fcukin lannister
D AND D did Jamie's arc dirty

Ask Brandon Sanderson how it will end. He'll be finishing it

Pls, I hope he gives Daeni and Jon (Aegon) a better ending😭

Dany 😢

He can rest easy knowing no one will be defending Dan & Dave's ending as superior to his

Here is what happened, he got lazy and they caught up then he told them the rest of the arc and kept on writing, they kept on shooting. People hated it it. He either did one of two things. 1- he finished snd the books are locked up somewhere and would be released once he is dead and they are really similar to the show and he is waiting cause he doesn’t want the angry mob.
2- he threw away his progress and started over to distance it from the show but he is stuck cause he is rebuilding an arc he was thinking about for years and it’s really hard to do it in that age.

But no way he is still working on one book for 12 years. He didn’t finish the 5 books in 60 years.

I think George wants to tell too many different stories and has written himself into chaos. He needs to finish and polish the major plot lines and pull a "Fire and Blood" for all the other stuff surrounding it. The details of the Martells, Dorne, the Boltons, Asha, Manderly, Sir Davos, etc, can all be fleshed out afterward, but they should show up only where they intersect with the main plot line.

I think some of the scaffolding that was inherent in season 8 wouldn’t be bad in the book(s). Things like Daenerys’ dissent into madness, and Bran’s eventual succession would be totally fitting IF they were delivered better than in the show.

Yes, he did say they would be basically the same. However, he was very clear that there may be debates as to "whose ending was better." Implying he has a different outcome in mind. Which makes sense considering Dan and Dave decided to make Arya the one who kills the NK as a late decision only two years before they shot the final season.

They wont

The end is renaissance

I hope that the last book comes out when I finish reading the last book😩

I think he has several ending ideas, and the show ending was just one of those ideas.

Now after seeing the backlash the S8 received, will he alter his ending?

Pls give me a good ending like lotr. I will still consider season 6-8 as non canon

I’m really disappointed in him. It’s 2024 now and still no book 😪

Don’t worry guys winter is coming I swear

They should have waited, did house of the dragon, then finished it when he was ready.

This man is never finishing those books.

Uhhhh. Should have made us wait. Should have done 5 more seasons. Why did they think rushing it and ending it too soon would be the better option? Fans loved the show. The ending was hated because it was rushed and unpolished. It was shallow compared to the depth of the rest of the show.

Literally no one in the face of the earth will ever say that the end of the show was better.

Any update?

just finish the books, dude 😑

With his own death?

Its going to be 50/50 on which ending will be better

He will never finish the series.

AND YET IN 2024 WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR BOOK 6

I refuse to believe he would actually throw Jon's build up into the trash and made Bran the king.
There is no way.

He looks sad

By hearing the fact that he thought the series wouldnt pass the books, then it ended up doing that makes me think he wants to avoid making such a terrible ending

The writers cut out too much content from the books and totally missed out on many more seasons.

I think Martin also ruined the series ...if he would have finished the books before the ending of the show we could have gotten a very satisfying ending

5 years later, and he STILL hasn't even finished the first of two remaining books. But he's sure making a lot of money with the spin-offs. Kind of tells you where his priorities lie, doesn't it?

Shame on this man.

I hope he lives forever and face the criticize

Any day now George 😢😅

Ffs here I am still with my unfinished boxset😂😂😂

This guy had all of Covid to write, and he still couldn’t finish the book. What a scumbag.

This guy is wasted talent

"and everyone lived happily ever after".....except we didn't.