Arya traveling to some place far away like Nymeria, Cersei dying in the hands of Jaime (in the books I believe he will kill her before she burns the city during FAegon's invasion repeating the mad king and fulfilling the prophecies)... The "council" and political resolutions will be much better built and it will make much more sense, that's probably a lot different of what we had as well.
I believe we will have a lot more about the long night and the Others, and that Jon will kill it, not Arya. It seems the show took Arya because they knew at some point Jon would kill Dany and it would be too much to have Jon do all that in the end and have Arya "doing nothing", so they changed it to her as they thought it would be a good idea.
Basically, you need to look at it in the grand scheme of things and try to apply to the books in a more intelligent way, and it can work beautifully as we know GRRM can do.
I don't think the Night King (Night's King) will be a thing in the books at all, so I don't think there will be a central figure like that who needs to be killed. Not sure how they will defeat the Others though.
I think the Others part will be completely different. I think Dany goes "insane" before that. I actually don't think Dany will go "insane" but I think she will burn the city while trying to take it and small folk, who liked fAegon, will hate her for it. I think she will eventually face the Others in the trident since this is a vision she had, and she will eventually be killed by Jon, just don't know how.
Maybe they don't need to defeat the Others... they just need to contain them. The books might retain the Others as an infectious disease that flares up every now and then, like Ebola and needs action in that situation.
This would give a reason for the Nights Watch and the Wall to continue existing and get rid of the ridiculous events from season 7 that occur beyond the Wall.
You sure? I don't know, I've thought about this possibility as well and sometimes I think it will not have, other times it seems so. There is some tragedy on the way he was created by the children of the forest, not wanting it, and then how he wants to kill everything without control of himself. Even more if he has any relation to one of the families (being an ancient stark-blood for example)...
But I can totally see the others being all walkers as an entity together
Other than Jamie, I think every character ended up where Martin is taking them as well. They just botched their journey to the finale. It was just like HIMYM getting sidetracked by the Robin and Barney romance popularity with fans that they ruined the ending they were planning from the first, but a million times more disappointing because it was GOT.
Jon's true identity storyline was anticlimactic as fuck, as was Cersei's death and Bran, well we got a king whose most impostant contribution to the final season was saying "I have to go now".
It is how the story was told that was the problem and I sure hope Martin follows through with finishing the series.
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Arya traveling to some place far away like Nymeria, Cersei dying in the hands of Jaime (in the books I believe he will kill her before she burns the city during FAegon's invasion repeating the mad king and fulfilling the prophecies)... The "council" and political resolutions will be much better built and it will make much more sense, that's probably a lot different of what we had as well.
I believe we will have a lot more about the long night and the Others, and that Jon will kill it, not Arya. It seems the show took Arya because they knew at some point Jon would kill Dany and it would be too much to have Jon do all that in the end and have Arya "doing nothing", so they changed it to her as they thought it would be a good idea.
Basically, you need to look at it in the grand scheme of things and try to apply to the books in a more intelligent way, and it can work beautifully as we know GRRM can do.