Game Of Thrones: 25 Key Details You Need To Know & Remember For Season 8

1. A Bittersweet, Divisive Ending

How do you end something as gargantuan as Game of Thrones? Ending any long-running TV show is a difficult task, especially when it's something so beloved. We've seen a number of series falter, like Dexter or How I Met Your Mother, and others that have proved extremely divisive, such as Lost or The Sopranos.

That's something the showrunners are very much aware of, but they no that there's no way to please everyone, with Weiss saying: "We want people to love it. It matters a lot to us. We’ve spent 11 years doing this. We also know no matter what we do, even if it’s the optimal version, that a certain number of people will hate the best of all possible versions... I’m hoping we get the Breaking Bad [finale] argument where it’s like, 'Is that an A or an A+?'"

That's been echoed by some of the stars, with Sophie Turner and Emilia Clarke among those who've said the ending is going to divide people. And really, it's very difficult for it not to.

What we also know is that it's going to be bittersweet. That's one of the few things George R.R. Martin has said about his own ending, and it's made its way to the TV show as well, with writer Bryan Cogman saying: It's an incredible emotional haunting bittersweet final season and I think it honuors very much what [author George R.R. Martin] set out to do - which is flipping this kind of story on its head."

That's about the right kind of ending for a show like Thrones. To simply have everyone die would feel like a waste, given we've spent so long rooting for the survival of these characters, but it can't have a completely happy ending either (and if you think it does, you haven't been paying attention etc etc). For exactly what 'bittersweet' means, though - well, we'll find out in just over six weeks.

Seven bloody hells.