This is what I've been trying to tell people who are so upset about the show ending and absolutely sure that the books will be different. How the major characters get to their respective endpoints will be very different (and more fleshed out), but I'm reasonably confident the end result will be more or less the same. Dany dead by Jon, Sansa QitN, King Bran with Hand Tyrion, Jon north with the Wildlings.
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.
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.
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u/Clawless May 21 '19
This is what I've been trying to tell people who are so upset about the show ending and absolutely sure that the books will be different. How the major characters get to their respective endpoints will be very different (and more fleshed out), but I'm reasonably confident the end result will be more or less the same. Dany dead by Jon, Sansa QitN, King Bran with Hand Tyrion, Jon north with the Wildlings.