Concluding a series like Game of Thrones is a challenge Dickens and Thackeray would have relished. John Mullan explores the art of crafting a cracking ending
As we await the final season of Game of Thrones, curiosity settles on a single question: how will it end? Fan sites buzz with speculation about what the most convincing conclusion could be. Surely Jon Snow’s true lineage will be revealed to him? Won’t we have to find out the truth about Cersei’s pregnancy? Will the White Walkers finally be defeated? And above all, who will reign at the end?
The makers of the series have set themselves a challenge: conjuring what the great literary critic Frank Kermode called “the sense of an ending”, and they can no longer rely on the original novels of George RR Martin. For the first five seasons, the series drew largely on the respective volumes of Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire saga, but for some time it has been ahead of the novelist, even if he has supplied the writers with hints of his intentions. Readers continue to wait for Martin to end his roman fleuve; TV scriptwriters cannot be so patient.
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