There is some merit, but if GRRM had his way, poor Peter Dinklange and Iain Glen would have spent the next seven years of their lives, floating on a ship, episode after episode and Gwendoline Christie is by herself in the woods.

The man needs an editor AND an adapter. I don’t blame those guys for cutting extraneous…

Totally agree with your suggested fixes (if only, we just needed MORE TIME!), I’ll only dispute that GRRM was the one who established all those plot lines, not those two boobs, and they shouldn’t really get a “you were almost great!” credit.

Once he gets around to killing her, we can talk about him bringing her back. Easy now. 

They just tried to do too much too soon.

They tried to say it a few times, but she was fighting a war she didn’t totally believe in, with allies who didn’t trust her and with advisors she didn’t totally trust. The one time she trusted her own instincts, she destroyed the Lannister army and burnt the Tarlys alive.

They…

The idea of her losing her nerve/will/incentive once she got reunited with Jon, Sansa and Bran has some merit. But again... rushed.

Bran’s ending would have been the best one of them all if only Dumb & Dumberest had just extended the series to explain that Bran told everyone upfront that he wasn’t Brandon Stark anymore but The Three Eyed Raven who warged into Bran. Therefore Bran is actually Brynden Rivers the last great Targaryen Bastard!

I just watched the series for the first time earlier this year and I agree with basically all of this. The pacing was really the biggest issue with the last two seasons, as well as the last two episodes. People were absolutely right about that. Both seasons should’ve been a full 10 episodes to give the plotlines time…

Daenerys was rushed to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead. She was then transferred to Maester Qyburn’s hospital, where necromancers upgraded her condition to “Alive.”

So...did I miss some big thing where everyone was just assuming she’d be a big part of the show, with no explanation of how she’s alive again? Because that’s what the article seems to be assuming we were all thinking, and I have no idea where that’s coming from.

Yeah, as has been noted Mad Queen Dany is not a bad ending, and in fact may be the right one. It just needed to be earned and built toward, not to feel like her character did a 180 turn in a span of 10 seconds.

It really did feel like the showrunners were running through a story beat checklist as quickly as possible because they were just done with the show.

The story resolution was only a disappointment if you weren’t paying attention to the narrative that was laid out in front of it and instead expected the show to pay off your own personal expectations/headcanon narrative. A lot like Lost.

It was mostly an issue with the general pacing of the series. The early seasons are so slow moving and talky. It takes characters weeks and months to get anywhere. Significant portions of a season will involve groups of characters traveling and talking, often mentioning upcoming events that won’t occur onscreen until…

I generally agree. It was foreshadowed and felt inevitable, yet in the moment it felt unearned, somehow. The showrunners were in such a hurry to wrap everything up that they didn’t bother to make the torching feel plausible.

Also, this show has about as much chance of happening as I do having a threesome with Kate Mulgrew and Patrick Stewart.

My cultural hot take has always been that, while they screwed up the last season of Game of Thrones, they came a lot closer to greatness than they get credit for.

Every single character got a legitimate outcome. They just rushed it. Here’s a few that are usually considered “bad” and my fixes.

Jaime - He is an addict. He…

She’s already elected though.

I keep seeing people say she must have been blackmailed but I truly believed it was because the Dems weren’t kissing her ass enough and now she gets to push a narrative that the Dems are so extreme she had to leave the party.

The legal argument was that in the early days of dealerships, the manufacturers had too much economic power over dealerships. Also, they could undercut them by opening their own manufacturer-operated dealerships.

It’s even more hilarious if you know about the *real* Adam Smith (go and listen to Freakonomics’ 3-episode series on him)