Game of Thrones is getting eight seasons! Game of Thrones is getting eight seasons! Welcome to the biggest news of the day. Television’s biggest good show, which isn’t necessarily all that good anymore, is getting even longer. And that’s exciting, because otherwise the show would end in just two years and would really have to rush through the end. But it’s not going to solve the biggest problem: Game of Thrones will end before the Dream of Spring release date. Probably well before.

Game Of Thrones Season 8 Will Beat Dream Of Spring By A Mile

It’s no surprise that Game of Thrones is getting eight seasons, as uncovered by EW. I mean, there’s so much material to cover—not to mention so much financial success to be had. But this is a big story, one that’s grown in the telling, and HBO at least sort of knows that it needs to end the show properly. Even if they’ve fuffed it up in lots of other ways. The company should have just given the show two extra episodes per season, and the extra season won’t solve that absence. But it’ll help.

Trouble is, A Dream of Spring is still miles and miles away. Winds of Winter looks like it might actually come out next year, around the same time as season 6, but that means it’ll be only two more years before Game of Thrones season 8 rolls around in 2018. Ain’t no way Dream of Spring will be out by then. And if George does decide to do eight books, the wait will be even longer. HBO is toying with doing more than eight seasons already, according to EW, but still. Dream of Spring doesn’t seem likely before 2020, and Game of Thrones certainly isn’t going to get ten seasons. That would be crazy. Bran would be, like, forty.

So we just have to resign ourselves to it now. It looks like we may narrowly dodge the spoiler apocalypse that would happen if Game of Thrones season 6 beat Winds of Winter into our eyes and hands. Let’s hope, anyway. But in 2018, there will be no hope for us. We shall all be destroyed by spoilers, unless George starts to write quickly again. Wellllllll.