The series is NOT impossible to end… what steps could GRRM take to tie everything up in two books? [SPOILERS MAIN]
Basically what the title says. Also not sure if I did spoiler tag correctly I’m a summer child of Reddit.
I’m really not sure why people think the series is impossible to end: Cersei, the Tryells, Arianne, Fake Aegon, and Jon Con can all end their plotlines in Kings Landing as early as the first half of TWOW
Jaime, Brianne, Stoneheart, and Arya end up in the riverlands after red wedding 2.0 and join the fight for the living
The North is fought over by Stannis and the Boltons with Northern Conspiracy stuff/Davos in Skagos stuff until Jon comes back to life and reclaims winterfell/the north & kills the shit out of Ramsay. Northern Conspiracy is concluded with Robb’s crown being delivered to Jon with the proclamation of him as his heir.
We have the Greyjoy stuff with Sam and the Battle of Blood where Euron could either die in a mass sacrifice to the Drowned God or maybe ascend to some kind of pseudo-Night King (failed Bloodraven protege theory) but I think this is where we learn about R+L=J
Dany fulfills Stallion that Mounts the World prophecies in Vaes Dothrak and brings her mega-khalasar to Meereen where she finds Victarion’s fleet, Marwyn, and an emo Tyrion waiting there ready to take over Westeros.
Bran trains in TWOW and does Hold the Door (maybe we get R+L=J here like the show but I think there’s another big time travel twist coming with Bran (probably either Aerys ‘burn them all’ or the origin of the Others)
And I feel like that pretty much sets Dany up to reclaim Kings Landing (whether she joins up with Jon first or not) and crown herself queen for like half of ADOS until she dies in the battle for the living in some crazy Ice and Fire magic to undo the injustices done against the Others.
Bran becomes a Green King in the end with the ‘sacking of the shire’ ‘bittersweet’ ending being that now everyone is ruled over by an unfeeling Weirwood hivemind because humans couldn’t sort out their differences.
What happens to Jon? Does Sansa get to keep the North? Did the house really have a red door? What does Jojen paste taste like? These are some of the biggest questions I can’t think of satisfying answers to.
(Addendum to add that this post was originally meant to just be the title and an apology for not understanding spoiler tags but I kept going and going and it ended up taking me twenty minutes so hopefully we can all see the irony in that)