We've talked about some such theories before. But as the show gets nuttier and warg-ier with each passing season, a lot of these theories look saner and saner, to the point that we'll soon be throwing up our hands and surmising that Joffrey is a Bizarro universe Olsen twin (and Game Of Thrones was secretly Full House all along).

Acclaimed nudity factory Game Of Thrones is about to embark upon its penultimate season. And while many of you can simply watch the show and go about your lives, the less fortunate among us must endure a fate much worse: an insatiable hunger for totally jackass fan theories.

7 Game Of Thrones Is Really A Science Fiction Story

In what would make for a crazy twist (and explain any stray wristwatches extras forgot to take off) some have theorized that the show will reveal that it's not set in a magical fantasyland, but in a post-apocalyptic future. This sounds like a dumb twist-for-twist's-sake -- like revealing that Jon Snow is Sam's imaginary friend, or ending with the characters being thrown out of a city park for their spectacularly violent LARP. But there are actually some pretty convincing clues supporting this theory built into the DNA of the show.

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Consider the Long Night. As the lore goes, apparently thousands of years before the events of the show there was a winter that lasted a whole generation. As pointed out by vlogger Preston Jacobs, that sounds like it could conceivably be a nuclear winter. Which would make Game Of Thrones basically Planet Of The Apes but instead of devolving back into apes, humanity just became way douchier and hornier.

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Damn, there goes our Planet Of The Joffreys sequel pitch.

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The also has some eerie parallels to George R.R. Martin's earlier science fiction work. For instance, his novella In The House Of The Worm is about a futuristic society that's been relegated to a more rudimentary state. And in some of his other stories, humans have created gene manipulation that allow them to "create almost anything -- including dragons, people who can change their skin, and people who can animate dead bodies".

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