Before the eighth series of Game of Thrones has even premiered, everyone’s already wondering about the finale.

This season’s final episode will be the last ever installment of the popular fantasy drama, and showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are under a lot of pressure to wrap things up in a way that does the show justice.

Both have opened up about the high stakes. “From the beginning, we’ve talked about how the show would end,” Benioff told Entertainment Weekly.

“A good story isn’t a good story if you have a bad ending. Of course we worry. It’s also part of the fun of any show that people love arguing about it.”

Benioff went on to discuss the conclusion of The Sopranos in 2007, when the screen surprisingly cut to black. “I think that was the best of all possible endings for that show,” he argued, “but a lot of people hated it. I’ve gotten into a lot of arguments with people about why that was a great ending, but people felt legitimately cheated and that’s their right to feel that way, just as it’s my right to feel like they’re idiots.”