10 years I give it. 10 years before they continue the series. That "ending" was intended to retake the series in a possible future

It was really weird how they handled that, I was expecting us to get big reveals about the White Walkers/Night King and Bran/The Three Eyed raven this season but we learned basically nothing new about them, I was sure it'd come up again after episode 3 but it didn't. Nor did we learn anything about the lord of light either.

The arc of Bran was perfectly realized in the series finale by making him a king who will bring change to kingdoms that are allowed to be independent from his reign.

You get that this is George's ending, right?

The way they got there has deviated, but this is the ending as GRRM explained it to D&D before even the first season.

Sarcasm

Martin started to share future plot points around 2013 - 2014 by his own admission. He wasn't convinced until about the fourth season was filmed that the show would overtake the books. That after unsucessfully pushing for AFFC and ADWD being adapted to three seasons instead of one.

This is very unlike the Harry Potter movies, where, for instance, JK Rowling shared with Alan Rickman his character's motivations even before the first movie so he could portrait Snape accordingly. All actors seem to have been flying blind as to their characters fates and motivations, on the other hand, from what Emilia Clarke, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Pilou Asbaek, Ian McElhinney etc. have said.

Either way, I'd be disappointed with Martin too if certain plot points are the same. The execution will likely be much better, yes, but thematically?. Remember when Martin posited the interesting questions of whether Aragorn would be a good ruler, after all, and what would ultimately happen to orcs and baby orcs after Sauron was defeated? if his answers are a magical boy on the throne and all the Others exploding into ice at the same time, then... eh. Whatever.

Wasn't it mentioned couple of times that he only sees many possible futures. I thought he didn't want to intervene so he won't affect the outcome. He could only hope everything plays out for the best. So he wouldn't even give any advice to Jon whether to tell his secret or not.

Also that petition is patchetic, self-entitled joke no matter how nicely Dylan tries to justify it. And this would be my opinion even if I hated the final season. Embarassing.

Greenseers do dream about the future, sometimes, but it's like prophecies, metaphoric and all. It's not the same thing as the power to consciously connect to the weirwoods and see the past as it was.

Either way, he's no Doctor Strange, that's for sure.

This is my biggest issue with the series as a whole. The very first scene of the whole series was with the whitewalkers.

Yes, the political drama was interesting and everything, but kings and villains kept coming and going every season, but the inminent threat that there was something else bigger than them all and their petty desires and greed, was always looming on the horizon. Since the very first episode.

So it was a HUGE disappointment for me when they were dealt with at the beginning of the season, because everything after that just felt.. pointless. No sense of danger. No sense of dread. Nothing.

It felt as if, after defeating Sauron in LoTR, Aragon and the other kings had spent one more hour of movie fighting each other for Middle Earth.

That´s exactly the reason why I signed the petition as well. I know they are not gonna remake anything but at least this will tell Disney that they need to keep an eye on these guys.  And who knows?  maybe change them for someone else?