also, spoiling something that happens at the end of a show that lasts past three seasons isn't a real spoiler I have decided, because it's either entirely out of character and thus drama bait and stupid, or entirely in character and thus unsurprising and an appropriate endpoint of character development
at the endpoint of an eight season show almost assuredly are the details are irrelevant and what matters is the journey you've undertaken
this is why series finales are historically awful and much derided, with the classics often being ones that break from the formula and exist outside the framework of the series
to use a Star Trek example (natch) the concluding episode of DS9 is not that great, spoiling anything that happens in it is less problematic than spoiling the events of the arc that lead up to it, that arc is also more climatic and finalizing than the final episode itself (from what I understand this GoT thing is partly due to the penultimate episode, but I'm not finding that particularly important here) while containing more dramatic swings... the superior finale is TNG "All Good Things..." which exists entirely outside the show, but would be more problematic to spoiler the events of because they are vital to the story being told solely within the finale itself*
connect this to shota's wanking over the Lost finale, one which if you are to spoil to someone will effect absolutely nothing about the show to someone and hinge not on their enjoyment of the show other than the slowly growing maddening of how the show does not act to get to that event, another example would be the hilariousness around the spoilers of Disney's Marvel's Avengers Endgame in which the legitimate spoilers were considered largely to be fake because of the stupidity that describing them and thinking about them causes, but nobody who was spoiled will admit to caring because its effectiveness is what matters and despite the fact that I think it was awfully written I'm not sure they could have pulled off that stupidity any better (except for the total handwave on the whole EVERYONE YOU LOVED ISN'T DEAD, SURPRISE! AND THEY HAVEN'T AGED AT ALL! disturbing plot point that results from being too wanton with unlimited time travel that you weirdly limit without thinking about it)
a competing show mentioned as the GOAT, The Wire is similarly borderline impossible to spoil by talking about events at the end of the final season, even THE spoiler for the end of the series matters entirely in how it happens not that it does nor that it comes at the end, almost any season's finale/premiere has more "spoilers" contained in it for someone watching along than the series final two episodes do, because you're ultimately spoiling the journey
I know someone who started watching The Office (US) just as it started to wind down, they were angry at the wanton public SPOILERS that Michael Scott was leaving, and then were angry that I said James Spader playing himself was a better boss than Andy BECAUSE THIS ALSO SPOILED THINGS, six months later... they were dead of a too-many-spoilers induced brain tumor, true story, even though they lived in Alberta and had a cat named Einstein
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*ironically, Picard himself chooses to spoil the events of the episode to his crew despite it almost assuredly being Q's work and by spoiling it he may set the events in motion... this is why ResetERA.com wishes to not discuss the ethics of time travel, to hide the crimes that come from their cowardly lack of banning the unmutual topics, something that would be seen if we could time travel to the right side of history and show the losers their massive L
