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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
^ If war against annihilation of a people isn't a battle of good vs evil, then I am not sure what it is?
Of course there is no happy ever after coming. I don't think anyone is naive enough to suggest harmony for the seven kingdoms is the end game.
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I actually think we'll likely learn more about the walkers that will make them more complex, but even as they have been shown so far I still don't see the battle as good vs. evil. The living in GRRM's world are clearly not just good. There are complicated people full of conflict and, although there are heroes standing out, it's too simple to say that the living just represent 'good'. That would be a pretty strange description of GoT characters.
Also, the NK and the WWs so far are emotionless and don't have any clear human motivation that could be considered 'evil'. Them coming is equivalent to the changing of seasons or the arrival of nighttime. That's not evil, even if it's frightening.
At this point, the simplest characterisation of a big GoT theme that stands out in my mind is death vs. good & evil. Everyone faces death, and the Great War is the fight everyone has just to stay alive, but life is also nasty. Life is full of brutal violence, greed, selfishness, ambition etc. There is no happily ever after ending, because people are not good. The choice to live is universal, but other than that we're a nasty mess and a #### show. Evil is a part of the alternative to death.