Author: Angela Watercutter / Source: WIRED
Starting Sunday, HBO’s Game of Thrones will air the first of six episodes that, to put it bluntly, will have to complete the story of dozens of hours of television spanning eight years. Some viewers will get the ending—or endings—they want; others won’t.
But when the credits roll for the final time, there will be one very hard question to answer: What did it all mean?Originally, Game of Thrones, and the George R.R. Martin books it is based on, was a subversion of fantasy tropes. Those who would normally be heroes in these stories—Ned Stark, Robb Stark—met bitter ends. So going into the finale, there are two ways the show can resolve itself, says Laura Hudson, WIRED’s Game of Thrones recapper.
“When you’ve built a story, when you’ve built a series, on turning things upside down and not giving people what they…
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