准确的数字，大约是73小时，抛开第七季和第八季的剧尾。“权利的游戏”第六季可能只有10集，而第七季就更短了，只有7集，第八季却只有6集。所以从理论上说，“权利的游戏”可能在第六季后就只剩13小时，而这也标记着剧终的最后10集!

　　但官方并没有发声，因为这一讨论已经持续了相当长的时间，可能会延续到明年。“每一个话题，制作人都应该考虑。”HBO的娱乐总监迈克尔•隆巴多对第八集的剧终建议。“当我们公布第七季和第八集的剧情，看到他们强烈的反应将是有趣的。”

　　All shows must die – even Game of Thrones. As the fantasy epic readies to lunch its sixth season, HBO and showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss are nearly ready to confirm a seventh – and the duo are also talking about an eighth run of episode that might include an end-date plan. “We’ve known for several years now how many hours, roughly, we want it to go,” Benioff tells EW. “It hasn’t changed.”The proposed magic number? About 73 hours, with the final run split between seasons 7 and 8. Thrones would then have six 10-episode seasons and shortened seasons for years seven (with seven episodes) and eight (with six episodes). So this could, in theory, mark the final year Game of Thrones gets a 10-episode season – and there could only be 13 hours left after season 6.But nothing has been officially decided, as this discussion has been going on for quite a long time and may continue well into next year. “In every conversation, that’s been [the showrunners’] thinking,” says HBO’s entertainment president Michael Lombardo of setting a season 8 end date. “It will be interesting to see how strongly they feel about being definitive about that when we are in a position to announce seasons 7 and 8.”

（编辑：何莹莹）