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Originally Posted by GGG
This is one of the end game problems he is going to face though. The white walkers are a pure evil with nothing having been done to humanize them. So any battle with them is good vs Evil.
It's also what makes Cersai as she is still looking out for her own best interests.
I think the key to next season will be how the houses stay loyal or quit during the hopeless conflict in the north. And there are 2 fantastic potential endings that would make people angry.
Jon and Dany defeat the white walkers but weaken themselves and Cersai defeats them or just as Jon and Dany are about to defeat the walkers Cersai, realizing the their army is still stronger attacks them from behind allowing the white walkers to defeat the North. Then the White walkers destroy the world.
Both would fit the the game of thrones themes of your strongest traits being your downfall and those who are heroic or noble will die as a result of it.
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I don't see it as good vs. evil at all. I think the white walkers are much better characterised by Beric Dondarion: death.
All of the human passions, including love, lust, betrayal, ambition are made to look trivial when set against the great war/the long night, ie. death. Death isn't evil, just emotionless. The bittersweet ending could be that the even if death is defeated and staved off, the alternative isn't peace, but a return to the constant, opportunistic and nasty battle between each other that is the other half of our nature.