‘Game of Thrones’ season 5: How the unknown can be rewarding

Within the span of just a year or so on “Game of Thrones,” we could be coming up to what is the great unknown for the TV series. The George R.R. Martin books are technically still a little bit further ahead in the Westeros story, but how long is that really going to last? Unless The Winds of Winter happens to be released within the next several months, the odds are greater than ever that season 5 will lead us into more unknown territory. We already had that once or twice during season 4, such as with that scene involving the White Walkers that no one quite understands just yet.

With this knowledge in mind, one actor in particular is definitely ready to make the leap into the great unknown. Speaking to a news site in Australia in promotion of his new movie “Cavalry,” Aiden Gillen (Littlefinger) explained that there is great joy in the unknown:

“It’s an adventure everyone is on — the audience, the cast. Not knowing where it’s going, that’s good. People playing end games could work … but if you don’t know what the end game is, maybe you won’t play the obvious thing.”

As of right now, the only person that we can say for certain knows the end of the story is George R.R. Martin himself. Supposedly, showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have more knowledge than the rest of the world about the end of the series courtesy of conversations with Martin, but there’s a difference between receiving stories secondhand and being the guy who actually has all of them in his his brain already.

Given the popularity of “Game of Thrones” now versus when A Dance with Dragons was released, we can only imagine the furor that is going to come with the next book hitting shelves.

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