The final season of 'Game of Thrones' was doomed to be divisive, and the Night King twist shows why

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• Warning: Spoilers ahead for HBO's "Game of Thrones." 
• After running out of published material from George R.R. Martin's book series, "Game of Thrones" showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have been making their own choices for key characters. 
• Arya killing the Night King is emblematic of how Benioff and Weiss' adaptation has moved away from Martin's carefully plotted narratives and closer to their own invented storylines.
• The show overtaking the books made the heated, divisive reaction about these final episodes inevitable.
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On Sunday's episode of "Game of Thrones," titled "The Long Night," Arya Stark stabbed the Night King with a Valyrian steel dagger, exploding him into ice-dust and thereby destroying the entire Army of the Dead and every White Walker.

And with that action, a schism erupted in the "Game of Thrones" fandom, uncovering a mess of emotions about HBO's adaptation of George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series.

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