Game Of Thrones star Aidan Gillen says it would be ‘inappropriate’ for Game Of Thrones to have a happy ending.
Game Of Thrones is ending for good next year as the likes of Daenerys, Cersei and Jon Snow battle for the Iron Throne.
Whoever survives until the end of season 8 and ends up ruling Westeros, it’s going to be a devastating season according to star Gillen, who played Littlefinger until he was killed off in season seven.
‘I always thought it’d be nice for it to have a happy ending, but I can’t imagine that would be appropriate,’ he told Entertainment Tonight.
While it would be refreshing for everything to turn out rosy in the show’s closing moments, we don’t see that happening either. Especially if there are going to be giant ice spiders to contend with.
Ice spiders have popped up in conversation back in season one when Old Nan warned Bran Stark that beyond the wall White Walkers ‘swept through cities and kingdoms, riding their dead horses, hunting with their packs of pale spiders big as hounds.’
When author George RR Martin, who wrote the book series that Game Of Thrones is based on, tweeted the cover art for the front of the A Song Of Ice And Fire 2020 calendar, fans couldn’t help but notice the massive ice spider smack bang in the middle of it.
As if Westeros wasn’t filled with enough horrors…
Meanwhile star Gwendoline Christie, who plays Brienne on the HBO show, hinted that viewers will need ‘therapy’ to get their heads around how Game Of Thrones ends.
‘I think just the show ending is going to send all of the world into professional help,’ she told E! News.
‘I think it’s going to make me incredibly emotional. We’re all emotional about the fact that this is the end, and this is the end of something incredibly significant for all of us, and it’s been a truly incredible thing to be a part of.’
Game Of Thrones returns in April 2019
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