Yup. Very few people who wrote about this in the media seemed to bother to read the actual text of the petition where it was clear that no-one really expected them to re-shoot the entire season.

This.

This line from the article stood out to me:

That song is seriously off-putting. Couldn’t finish the trailer.

Wow. Michelle Williams is just phenomenal in this.

Fashionably late or did I miss the party?

Tormund respected her for being a warrior and thought she was attractive to boot.

This stood out to me as well.

Very excited and surprisingly very emotional about this!

I ordered the DVD sets for Tales Of The City and More Tales Of The City from the UK and ripped them. They weren’t that expensive and the cases have some cool 70s-inspired artwork for each series.

Memes and snark aside, I’ve found some of the more reasonable theories and fixes on r/freefolk.

I can’t locate all the links for comments, but a lot of them involved fixing things that didn’t make sense in order to get to where GRRM apparently wanted to go with a lot less head-scratching logic, and in some cases more…

Hodor holding the snow globe.

All the heroes living up to our expectations, or getting great death scenes and happy endings, would have felt hollow and disappointing.

They didn’t tell Emilia Clarke what her character’s ultimate fate was until she got the scripts for this last season.

When the “Previously On” does most of the heavy work in explaining your character’s actions—referencing things viewers have long since forgotten and which haven’t been shown in clear unambiguous action over the course of seasons—there’s a problem with the storytelling.

When they’re adapting material, they do fairly well. When they have had to create original material it has ranged from great to absolutely dire (the dialogue has certainly taken a nosedive). Not having seen any completely original creation from the two of them, I’m not sure what to expect, but I’m leaning towards…

Someone else posited this as an alternate explanation.

Don’t insult Dynasty like that. The characters always stayed true to who they were. The reason it started to suck was the outlandishness and/or dull nature of the storylines.

After seeing the fifth episode of Season 8 of Game Of Thrones, I have come to renounce some things. {SPOILERS ahead}

The more I think about this though, the less I think D&D will end up actually getting anything other than a producer/associate producer/story credit.