CAUTION: FAIRLY RELIABLE SPOILERS. Endgame of Thrones- and maybe partial redemption?

This is a link to what seems to be a reasonably credible leak as to what happens on the series finale of GAME OF THRONES on Sunday. 

Click on the grayed out portions in the article linked to above, paragraph by paragraph, down the page a bit if you want to know. I'm saying this so that only readers who want to know what the alleged "leak" says will risk having anything spoiled.  It should be said that the source from which the "leak" comes has been extremely reliable as to what would happen in the last two episodes.

There apparently were two different versions of the ending filmed (or staged), so some details are unclear. The differences include the survival (or non-survival) of a major character.

A couple of observations. First, I feel a little better about Daenerys's hitherto inexplicable psychotic break- or an episode of narcissistic rage, or apparently both, having read what I linked to above. Her decline into paranoid psychosis apparently was masked by how elegantly her delusions- at least from the outside- seemed to dovetail with reality. The narcissistic element is clear: she has really, really taken her role as a liberator to heart- but she also seems to have a psychotic idea that... well, shall we say, there is more than one way to "liberate" people?

This actually explains what happened last Sunday. Sort of, anyway, though I'm not yet sure how well.  I'm still thinking about the issue of credibility. The delusion that fire = liberation could actually resolve the problem plotwise- though I doubt that it will even begin to satisfy all those people who named their children "Khaleesi." If Dany's madness was masked by the convergence of circumstances which until now had allowed her to seem sane, the writers would seem to be walking the tightrope between brilliance and absurdity, and it's not easy to tell at this point on which point they will fall off.

Secondly, there may even be a kind of partial redemption for the ease with which the Night King was defeated a week ago last Sunday. It seems that- for whatever reason- "there will always be a Night King." The White Walkers may not have been finally defeated at all. This would actually make sense when one remembers the legend of "the Long Night." Apparently, the threat can be temporarily defeated, but not finally done away with.

I'm still thinking about it, but it's possible that- rushed as it is- this ending might kind of work after all, and that the resolution of the series might not be as bad as it seemed. But I'm reserving judgment until it's all over. Suffice it to say that the purported leaks, if true, kind of explain some things which otherwise would be inexplicable.

Still, we have to deal with the fact that Kit Harrington summed up the ending as "disappointing," and both Emilia Clarke and Peter Dinklage seem somewhat less than enamored of it as well.  But we shall see what we shall see Sunday night.