You have to wonder what is meant when its said they have his ending. Is his ending he gave them just "so and so its on the Iron Throne"? Because I would think it would more that. I never really imagined the books ending with Jon or Dany sitting the throne and this is the first time I ever thought the show might be going that way. Maybe its some unexpected twist at the end but whatever it is I'm sure what we saw last night has nothing to do with what he has in mind. Shame we will never know. Unless they really make a mess of it and he gets motivated. Comments he has made even recently lead you to believe this season should be fairly faithful so who knows.
Kind of seems like they may have completely dropped the "Prince That Was Promised". Melisandre was all about that so how are we supposed to not care while still caring that she had a prophesy about Arya killing the NK?
Anyway I'm looking forward to episode 5 where Arya kills Cersei's entire army and Thanos
Yep, I doubt GRRM would have ever brought all the characters together like that, let alone had a "happy" ending which I think they are building to.
I think the "ending" he gave HBO was a mess, so they slapped together this. Just making Cersei the likely final conflict over the Night King goes against a lot of the central part of the story. My wife, who's never read the books just wants to see dragons and Cersei get hers.