# Game of Thrones - how long to go? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 24, 2017, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-how-long-to-go/792041 "2017-07-24T16:47:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-how-long-to-go/792041/1 "2017-07-24T16:47:24Z")
I have been assiduously avoiding GoT out of fear that it would not be finished and I would be left hanging. So is this the last season, or is there a season or two to go? Or, can I start binge-watching now? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-how-long-to-go/792041/2 "2017-07-24T16:52:24Z")
This is the penultimate season. It is shortened as will be the last season. So it’s more like a season and a half. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-how-long-to-go/792041/3 "2017-07-24T17:15:55Z")
Oh well. Next year, then. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-how-long-to-go/792041/4 "2017-07-24T17:17:36Z")
And some of the final season’s episodes, HBO has said, might be two or more hours long. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-how-long-to-go/792041/5 "2017-07-24T17:30:54Z")
As for the books, we are waiting on the penultimate book, which may or may not possibly come out this year, in October, but maybe not. . . . :smack: :mad: :smack: :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-how-long-to-go/792041/6 "2017-07-24T17:59:08Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > As for the books, we are waiting on the penultimate book, which may or may not possibly come out this year, in October, but maybe not. > . > . > . > :smack: :mad: :smack: :mad: Also may or may no be the penultimate book. It was supposed to be a trilogy originally. I’m completely resigned to him dying before they’re finished. If he gets them out and they return to the quality of the first 3, then that’ll be a pleasant surprise. ---
**Author:** ![zombywoof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9e8a1a/32.png) [@zombywoof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zombywoof)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-how-long-to-go/792041/7 "2017-07-24T18:23:07Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Oh well. Next year, then. There have been rumors that Season 8 may not air until 2019. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-how-long-to-go/792041/8 "2017-07-24T18:48:43Z")
Also, barring a nuclear apocalypse, the show will run to the end, even if Martin dies. ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-how-long-to-go/792041/9 "2017-07-24T20:02:33Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > As for the books, we are waiting on the penultimate book, which may or may not possibly come out this year, in October, but maybe not. > . > . > . > :smack: :mad: :smack: :mad: GRRM posted a couple days ago that we _might_ get it in 2018. I think this year is right out. Still holding out hope that he’ll finish the last two books at the same time, possibly publishing them a year or so apart, but that hope is _very_ faint. Still, I only started reading them a few years ago. I feel bad for the guys who’ve been waiting since 1996. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-how-long-to-go/792041/10 "2017-07-25T14:17:15Z")
> [@DrCube](#): > > …Still, I only started reading them a few years ago. I feel bad for the guys who’ve been waiting since 1996. Well, now 2011, but yeah, that’s me! ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-how-long-to-go/792041/11 "2017-07-25T14:19:38Z")
> [@DrCube](#): > > GRRM posted a couple days ago that we _might_ get it in 2018. I think this year is right out. > > Still holding out hope that he’ll finish the last two books at the same time, possibly publishing them a year or so apart, but that hope is _very_ faint. > > Still, I only started reading them a few years ago. I feel bad for the guys who’ve been waiting since 1996. I started in 2001. Thought “oh, it’s only been like a year or two between books, I’ll be reading about Tyrion again in no time!” Then it was 5 years for the next book and didn’t even have any of my favorite characters. Yeah, it’s been a pain. ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-how-long-to-go/792041/12 "2017-07-25T14:34:49Z")
> [@DrCube](#): > > GRRM posted a couple days ago that we _might_ get it in 2018. I think this year is right out. [Here is the post in question](http://grrm.livejournal.com/544709.html), by the way: > [@](#): > > And, yes, I know you all want to know about THE WINDS OF WINTER too. I’ve seen some truly weird reports about WOW on the internet of late, by ‘journalists’ who make their stories up out of whole cloth. I don’t know which story is more absurd, the one that says the book is finished and I’ve been sitting on it for some nefarious reason, or the one that says I have no pages. Both ‘reports’ are equally false and equally moronic. I am still working on it, I am still months away (how many? good question), I still have good days and bad days, and that’s all I care to say. Whether WINDS or the first volume of FIRE AND BLOOD will be the first to hit the bookstores is hard to say at this juncture, but I do think you will have a Westeros book from me in 2018… and who knows, maybe two. A boy can dream… ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-how-long-to-go/792041/13 "2017-07-25T15:23:25Z")
> [@DrCube](#): > > GRRM posted a couple days ago that we _might_ get it in 2018. I think this year is right out. I thought he said you would have either TWOW, or Fire and Ice, a new full history of Targs up until some point or other. And given the latter is largely written, I’d know what I’d put money on. So sort of in the words of GRRM: “Ice Age is Coming”.