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One of the (many) problems in S8 was that they never developed a way to defeat the Night King and the army of the dead in a way that made metaphoric sense. For the obvious LoTR comparison, Sauron represents greed, industrialisation, and expansionism. He is defeated by the actions of humble hobbits who love gardening and small country life, and in the final moment the ring is destroyed by greed itself, because no one is immune to greed. This makes metaphoric sense. In GoT, the Night King represents climate change and death itself. How on earth do you defeat that in a way that makes metaphoric sense? Do all the nobility come together for a Paris accord? It's just not that kind of show. There is no character who could have stabbed the Night King and defeated death itself and it make sense. The only sort of solution I've come up with for this is to actually do something with Melisandre and the Lord of Light. The battle of the long night rages, thousands of Daenerys' soldiers die, Melisandre is praying desperately for her Lord to please deliver them. And he does - Melisandre channels magic fire which rains from the sky and kills all the dead, including a bunch of the living. The survivors celebrate this morbid victory. Varys, whose arc has always been lowkey defined by his distrust of the Lord of the Light (for whom he was cut), drily congratulates Melisandre on her and her God's victory. In terror, she confesses to him that when the Lord of Light acted through her that night she saw a glimpse of what he really was, and he is not a good guy, and one day an endless summer will replace the endless winter and it will be much, much worse. And as in the show she kills herself. This does mean you just replace the imminently looming threat with a different, more distant looming threat, but you could end the show on a note of "we've succeeded for now, but in a few decades or centuries the whole world will burn". Death cannot be defeated, only delayed ("What do we say to the God of Death? Not today"). It would also work well as a parallel for humanity actively exacerbating climate change rather than combating it in the real world. Anyway that's my GoT fanfiction. Not a perfect solution, but better than "and then Arya stabs him with her ninja skills and it's totally dope!!"
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