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It
was all guts and gory. Sunday's bloody “Game of Thrones” season finale
left so many loose threads hanging that it will take fans at least a
year to recover.
'Game of Thrones' will play its own often-gory hand as series catches up with George R.R. Martin's books
BY Don Kaplan
TV EDITOR
Tuesday, June 16, 2015, 2:00 AM
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Macall B. Polay/courtesy of HBO
It was all guts and gory.
Lena Headey, center, as Cersei Lannister, before her revealing "walk of atonement" in the season finale.
Sunday’s bloody “Game of Thrones” season finale left so many loose threads hanging that it will take fans at least a year to recover.
Good thing, because it’s going to take that long before there are any answers, as the story will continue with a life of its own. The series has finally overtaken the George R.R. Martin novels it has been loosely based upon.
“We know how it ends,” series co-creator David Benioff, who shares an executive-producer credit with D.B. Weiss and Martin, tells the Daily News.
“George remains deeply involved in the sense that he is writing the final books and keeping us updated about what his plans are and exactly what the destinies of the various characters will be,” Benioff says.
But fans of the story went berserk after Sunday’s finale. The reactions on social media spanned a spectrum of emotions from hate to hysteria.
“I feel like I’ve been stabbed just as many times as Jon Snow,” @graceferg99 tweeted to her followers.
“What have you done??!! I wanted to call the police and firefighters to go help #JonSnow,” tweeted another fan, @azucar213.
Helen Sloan/HBO Sophie Turner's Sansa Stark was last seen leaping from a castle wall.
“I’m going to need to take tomorrow off of work to mourn Jon Snow’s death. #GameofThronesFinale,” tweeted @CarrieNSwain.
The show’s producers say this is all part of the plan.
“We’ve been working very hard to map out the final seasons of the show. We’ve remained in close consultation with George about all of it,” Benioff says.
The most recent book in Martin’s epic fantasy series, “ A Dance With Dragons,” was published in 2011 — and much of the material for the fifth season came out of it.
Martin has said he is rushing to finish the next volume in the series, “The Winds of Winter,” and hopes to release it before season six of the show begins next year.
But Benioff and Weiss freely admit they aren’t waiting for him and will continue to change key plot points as they see fit.
Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO Kit Harington, as Jon Snow, met his end on "Game of Thrones."
The explosive season finale ended with three major characters dead, one blinded and another stranded in the middle of a field, with no weapons, surrounded by an army of strangers.
Conniving Queen Cersei was stripped naked and forced to walk through the city while being taunted and pelted with garbage. Those killed in the episode included beloved warrior Jon Snow (Kit Harington), the evil Meryn Trant (Ian Beattie) and the twisted king Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane).
And instead of a cliff, two other major characters, Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) and Reek (Alfie Allen) leapt off of the top of a castle wall.
Wannabe assassin Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) lost her eyesight as punishment for slaughtering Trent without permission, and Daenerys Targaryen found herself surrounded by an army of mysterious horsemen after flying away from her kingdom on the back of a dragon.
Only Martin, Benioff and Weiss know for sure where anyone will land — or how hard.
“We’ve run out of book,” shrugs Benioff. “But that’s not like a plane running out of runway. I think we’ll take off long before we reach the end of the tarmac.”
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It
was all guts and gory. Sunday's bloody “Game of Thrones” season finale
left so many loose threads hanging that it will take fans at least a
year to recover.
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