Carnivale, another fantasy/sci-fi type series, was also fantastic and cut way, way too short. 

The last two GoT seasons are the opposite of the“milk the franchise” problem you are talking about. They were Weiss and Benioff trying to exit as fast as possible so that they can segue their cachet into a ton of other stuff, notably Star Wars.

John Adams was good but i would rank several shows/mini series above it.

A biological weapon created by the Children of the Forest to kill the First Men. That’s all he was

I think most of the people that have issues with the recent episodes are mainly upset with the pace.

Except none of that was NUTTERS. It was all reasoned out and sanely justified. Her brother was a giant cunt and her love no longer out weighed her contempt. That wasn’t CRAZY. Most every bad decsion was bad because it lacked wisdom or was ignorant or came from inexperience or desperation.

No, that was expected.

That’s my only real issue. Despite foreshadowing this from the beginning, they took so many narrative shortcuts to bring Dany to this point that it feels false.

For me it was so contrived to be stuffed into 2 episodes. Should have been shown throughout the season.

Rreminds me of Anakin in Return of the Sith. Yes he did bad things like Dany but it’s a big jump from Jedi to ok now I’m a sith child and adult mass murderer.

Good endings are hard, yo. Seriously. It’s like failing to nail the dismount in gymnastics. Even if you don’t fall flat on your face, people gonna be disappointed.

If anything, Tyrion freeing Jaime only made me more sure he would kill Cersei—Tryion killed Twyin before fleeing. Alas, they decided the dead destroyed Jaime’s character development as well.

Not to the extent of murdering women and children for revenge no.

I did. She never previously just murdered women and children prior to this episode. All previous kills where logical for her to ascend or maintain power.

This episode was a mixed bag. It moved all the pieces in a basically sensible way, but it failed to show how that character arcs add up. Dany just makes a WWE-style heel turn, inflicting far more damage that her goals would seem to dictate. Is Missandei enough for what she does here? Is Rhaegal? Is anything?

No. Most of the people who liked Lost before the final season that I’ve seen or heard from liked the finale and the last season (even though most thought it wasn’t quite as good as what came before). But there were no character betrayals, no logical inconsistencies, and no world building inconsistencies (unless you…

Not that I care that much if she lives or dies, but doesn’t that mean Dany just dropped the entire castle on Ellaria Sand, who was locked up watching her daughter rot?

X-Files, yes, but imo the ME 3 finale was worlds better than this (caveat: I only played the patched ending). I felt all characters were on point throughout, which is my biggest beef with GoT.

And Battlestar Galactica fans, and X-Files fans, and Mass Effect fans, and Evangelion fans, and...

Honest question, but what didn’t you like about this? What they did with Dany’s character? Because thats been hinted at since the beginning. That said, I will admit that the show didn’t execute the “heel turn” as well as it should have, and some of that it didn’t entirely feel earned.