Ronaldo and Old Man McGucket, two characters their respective shows love a lot more than I do. I find them best in small doses.

It would be nice to feel a greater sense of progress with Daenerys' storyline. It often seems to be running in circles.

Probably the cliffhanger I found least appealing was the Daenerys one. It seems to set up yet another season with a lot of potential for stalling. Get the feeling she and her army aren't going to be crossing any sea until it's nearly time for the endgame.

Brienne walks away from the candle just before it's lit. Jon and company arrive at Hardhome just as the White Walkers (who have been sitting around for years not doing much) attack. Dragon shows up at arena just in time to save everyone (I liked the latter two things, but still). Tyrion gets kidnapped by someone…

And more narrative convenience and plot contrivances this year than I would care to count. Lots of great moments, sure, but something lacking in the connective tissue for me this season.

Weakest finale of the series capping off the weakest season overall, I think.

Also that Will just happened to be at the shooting range.

I do kind of agree that this show is at its strongest when the amazing imagery is accompanied by some really meaty plotting. I think that's what made the first half of season two so strong, when we were blessed with an imprisoned, but clear-thinking Will doing the move/countermove dance with Hannibal.

Yeah. The sequence at the end was the one where I went: "I get it. This is what could make this show unique and cool and fun. Do more of this."

I'm detecting a slight lack of sincerity here.

There's a shot in the opening courtroom scene that lingered over someone who, to me, looked like he was in heavy prosthetic makeup. I took an educated guess about who could be under that makeup (and starting asking why someone would be wearing heavy prosthetic makeup), and the clues just sort of lined up for me after…

I try to not spoil anything for someone if I actually think I'm on to something without asking for permission to speculate, don't tear down anyone's opinion of a piece of media just because I disagree, and generally try to be respectful of others? (Don't always succeed because of the being human thing, and I do at…

I try to not spoil anything for someone if I actually think I'm on to something without asking for permission to speculate, don't tear down anyone's opinion of a piece of media just because I disagree, and generally try to be respectful of others? (Don't always succeed because of the being human thing, and I do at…

I'm sure I'm in the small minority on this, and it was probably just a lucky guess, but I figured out that this was a flash forward from the very first scene, when I saw Jack getting extremely nervous on a flight, and wearing that long fake beard. ("Why does he need a fake beard, I wonder? What are you trying to…

The sequence at the end of episode 3 was when I went: "Oh! I get now why this premise could be cool and interesting." (I imagine if this were a cable or broadcast show, you would have had something like that in your opening episode as your hook.)

I think the Wachowskis and JMS are at their best when they can indulge in some flowery speechifying delivered by an actor that can pull that off.

I think the reason I tend to dislike ambiguous endings in series finales is because they feel like sort of the easy way out as a writer.

I think this was because what exactly Tony Stark's character development was supposed to be was so muddled in Iron Man 3, and Joss did what he could with it.

Well put.

Counterpoint to that would be the "Justified" finale, which received an awful lot of praise.