GAME OF THRONES: George R.R. Martin Reaffirms That A DREAM OF SPRING Will Have Different Ending

@RegularPoochie - He probably told them his plans for the ending in the books, for example that after stoppping the dead, Daenerys will lose her mind and will burn King's Landing and John will have to kill her, etc...

But in such long books you can get there differently with a pace that makes more sense, Martin has said the show should have been like ten seasons, the extra seasons could have been used for the long night being actually long and not just one battle episode where all of the dead are killed in the dumbest way, and to show how Daenerys becomes another ruthless Targaryen even if she thinks she is doing the right think, that could have been developed for several seasons instead of just a few episodes, because in the show she is shown as someone who could potentially become what she ultimately becomes, but the last steps into madness in the last episodes feel too rushed, there is so much stuff that the show could have tried to do better, but they just didn't have the books, they only had Martin's notes/"sketches" of what would happen, and the show's writers just didn't know how properly to do it without the books and everything felt incredibly rushed to end the show asap, however Martin won't have that problem with the last books and I hope because of that the ending will be much better even if most of the main plot points are the same.

@MrDandy - Idk, the next book is titled Winds Of Winter iirc, there is the "Winter Is Coming" stuff and the references to the Long Night, I think there will be a pay off to all of that somehow and I doubt it will be as simple as in the show with just a single night of battle in Winterfell, that was really disappointing imo, I think the last couple of books will mostly follow the plot of the show but making more sense, making it better, and a part of that will be fighting the others/white walkers and Daenerys going crazy during and after that with John feeling forced to stop her, all of that is too important for the story imo to be significantly changed, but I think Martin will handle it better than the writers in the show, though I might be wrong, idk.