Valar Morghulis. Even Game of Thrones will die

So no more can we tease you about who gets to live and who doesn't. No more can we say, "Wait till you see what happens" with glee as you move toward the Red Wedding without any idea of the horrors up ahead.

We're all finally on equal footing.

Just write it already!

It's easy to dislike Martin if you've been a loyal fan for years. That's primarily because when HBO took on the project, his focus remained on the TV series.

He had originally planned to have his sixth book, The Winds of Winter, on bookshelves before Season 6. It wasn't until very early in 2016 that it was confirmed that this wouldn't happen.

Martin himself once said: "I'm still getting e-mail from assholes who call me lazy for not finishing the book sooner. They say, 'You better not pull a Jordan'."

Robert Jordan, whose real name was James Oliver Rigney, Jr, died in 2007, before his Wheel of Time series was finished. That task then went to Brandon Sanderson, whose writing actually breathed some new life into the 14-book series.

"I find that question, you know, pretty offensive frankly, when people start to speculate about my death and my health. So f*** you to those people," Martin added.

Surprises all around

Now we're going to get a sixth season that dives into book six stories, ultimately spoiling some of Martin's surprises. And that's unusual on it own - no adaptation in my memory has ever really overtaken the literary source its based on.

And then a year later, we'll get season 7. By then we may have the sixth books in our hands, but there's no chance that the seventh would be even close to completion. Does Martin have it in him to get his version done by the time the show is ready to end?

It's not likely, and that's an assumption based on the facts - after all, he's still working on his current book five years after his last book released. And that last book? Well, it released six years after its predecessor.

And what if he decides that he doesn't want to finish. What if Martin decides that since the show is going to finish his story for him; that he doesn't need to write two more books.

We readers cannot put a gun to his head and order him to type as fast as his fingers can. (He should take inspiration from Stephen King in that regard. That man churns out a minimum of one book a year, but more often than not it's two.)

But we'll all still watch the new Game of Thrones as soon as it airs. And a few of us will read Martin's final books whenever they come.

But all good things must come to an end

Once a show is gone, the shine ultimately wears off. Think Mad Men, Downton Abbey, Breaking Bad and The Sopranos.

And the show is definitely on it's "final lap" as show runner David Benioff and DB Weiss told Variety. "I think we're down to our final 13 episodes after this season," Benioff explained. "That's the guess, though nothing is yet set in stone, but that's what we're looking at."

It's something fans have known for a long time. Since the beginning, the plan has been simple: seven seasons to coincide with seven books from Martin. That was when HBO and even Martin thought these seven books would exist by the time the show was ready to move past them.

When this didn't happen, plans had to be adjusted. And during those adjustments, rumours began to circulate that HBO was interested in seeing Thrones go beyond the originally planned seven seasons.

But as Weiss and Benioff only have so much story left to tell, it looks like eight seasons is what we'll get.

And that's the sad truth about Game of Thrones. It's all going to end - the show and the books.

Because in the end, All Men Must Die.