On Game of Thrones, humanity has parcel armor.

I can not tell you how Game of thrones ends, but I'm pretty sure I can tell you how it does not work. From the beginning, the series describes a world in which trying to appeal to others' feelings of achieving a higher goal is the quickest way to get killed. (Just ask Ned Stark to have his head cut off.) Viewers know from the beginning that humanity is facing an existential threat emanating from the undead army known as the White Walkers name, but the characters in the series have only gradually discovered the crisis that was looming on the horizon. slow to count with the little that they know. Now, with the masses of the king of the night heading south from the torn wall, there is no doubt that the threat is real. And yet, with only five episodes of Game of thrones rest, the human race fails to seize the opportunity. Jon Snow's attempt to form an alliance with Daenerys Targaryen created dissension rather than unity. Some houses in the north have deserted the cause and others, like poor little Lord Umber, have not been prepared or provided. Although she has hired her troops, Cersei is just watching, hoping the rival armies will weaken enough to defeat all that remains.

There is only one plausible conclusion to this saga is that humanity does not survive. The different factions of Westeros never meet at all, or realize too late that even the divisions which unite them for centuries are fading beside the gap between the dead and the living. During the first season, Cersei explained the power struggle to Ned Stark – who at that time still had his head – as an idea in which "we win or die", and the years that have follow up revealed little evidence of a third option. Nobody negotiates peace with the king of the night.

The facts on the ground in Westeros are different from those of our world, but human nature is constant in all the universes and what we have seen of Game of thronesIt is a flawless pessimism – and quite justified. The usefulness of the series as an allegory of climate change may be exaggerated, but to the extent that it reflects our ability to regroup in the face of an impending disaster, it is all too precise. Last year, a report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that irreversible changes could begin in 2030 and that their prevention would require massive and unprecedented transformation. of the global economy. Faced with a clear deadline and a damning scientific consensus, we did … "nothing" does not seem to be a word too strong. Nothing remotely approaches the kind of unshakable public resolve that would drive politicians and industry to take quick and decisive action. Some of us are very unhappy at all, but others have too much cash to buy fossil fuels or are too busy drinking in liberal Tears goblets to admit that the problem exists. (As I'm writing about a popular TV show rather than being tied to the doors of the Environmental Protection Agency, globally, I do not do much more.)

What little do we know about Game of thrones'Last season suggests that the series flirts at least with the possibility of mass extinction. The Battle of Winterfell, which will last the entire length of the year, will probably fall in the third episode of the season, directed by Miguel Sapochnik, who directed the previous eruptions of the series. (Given the fact that the troops are already assembled, it seems unlikely that the series will wait until the fifth episode, also directed by Sapochnik, to play this card.) Unless the series plans to pass three full episodes on the relatively unimportant question of who gets on the iron throne after the king's defeat of the night, I suppose that humanity will lose this battle. And since every human being killed is not just a loss on one side, but an addition of undead to another, this should be the game of baseball. As a viewer, I love Jon Snow and co. But if I'm an Essos gambler, I know who I'm putting money to.

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There is only one problem. The series that has become famous for its desire to kill seemingly essential characters is less and less likely to do so. Even before Jon Snow's return, viewers had begun to understand which characters were essential at the end of the series and therefore impossible to kill. You did not need Ramsay Bolton or even Littlefinger to solve the problem, but it's impossible to imagine that Dany or Jon were shocked. There was no chance that the great sparrow would defeat Cersei for good or that Arya would fail the tests of the faceless men. The main characters in the series had acquired what the fans call "the armor of the plot", which meant that whenever the odds really seemed zero, when they were leaning against a wall and that there seemed to be no way out, we knew the question was not asked. & # 39; would escape but only how.

Now that the series is almost over, the individual characters finally lose their invulnerability. (As far as we know, none of these essential characters could buy it in Episode 2.) But there is still intrigue armor, and it's the biggest and most awkward of all. I do not know which humans will survive until the end of Game of thrones, but I have the feeling that humanity will want – that the series ends in a Westeros in which the king of the night has at least been repulsed, even totally defeated. The logical end of the precepts Game of thrones The king of the night has married a smile on the iron throne, surrounded by his army of dead, but HBO has not invested nearly a billion dollars to tell a story whose morale is that humanity is fucked . The victory will have a cost, but this cost will be paid; life, of one kind or another, will continue. There are unfortunately no such guarantees in our world. We risk losing our fight and there will be no one left to enjoy the turn of the plot.