{"id":9398,"date":"2019-05-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/you-may-find-it-hard-to-deal-with-how-game-of-thrones-ends\/"},"modified":"2019-05-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T00:00:00","slug":"you-may-find-it-hard-to-deal-with-how-game-of-thrones-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/you-may-find-it-hard-to-deal-with-how-game-of-thrones-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"You May Find It Hard To Deal With How Game Of Thrones Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Blockbuster TV series Game of Thrones will not come to a Disney-style happy ending and will \u201cbleed\u201d into viewers\u2019 lives, warns an academic.<\/h3>\n<p>Two episodes remain in the eighth and final series of the program, hailed by many as the greatest television series ever made.<\/p>\n<p>Now Dr Tom van Laer from the University of Sydney says that&nbsp;Game of Thrones is diverging from most TV series, which have \u201cdisneyfied happy endings\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWith Game of Thrones, viewers must grapple with characters\u2019 complex experience of the end of their world and will have to cope with the aftermath,\u201d Dr van Laer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResearch on the terminal phase of serial stories shows they bleed into viewers\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany may find it hard to deal with the fracturing finale of a story like Game of Thrones.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Warning?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Warning<\/a>:<br>Blockbuster fantasy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/storytelling?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#storytelling<\/a> series <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GameOfThrones?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GameOfThrones<\/a> will not come to a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Disney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Disney<\/a>-style\u00a0happy ending.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GoT<\/a> will <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bleed?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bleed<\/a> into viewers\u2019 lives instead. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bjtG5BjKvd\">pic.twitter.com\/bjtG5BjKvd<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tom van Laer (@tvanlaer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tvanlaer\/status\/1126287175987761157?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>&#13;\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blockbuster TV series Game of Thrones will not come to a Disney-style happy ending and will \u201cbleed\u201d into viewers\u2019 lives, warns an academic. Two episodes remain in the eighth and final series of the program, hailed by many as the greatest television series ever made. 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