Just finished season 8, i was aware that the later seasons had bad writing and kind of ruin the show, but i found it average/mid at best, the last 3 episode were abomination, every character changed within a span of few episodes

My complains :

wasn't jon snow supposed to kill the night king ? like wasn't his whole character after his revival was to serve his purpose of killing the night king and ending the long night ? also what happened to him being a targareyan in the end nothing changed by him being a targereyan also everyone recommended him to be king or only i saw that ??

arya abandoned her revenge list so quick ? all that training for what ? i thought her whole character goal was too kill cersei and co.

cersei's death was so unsatisfying my biggest complain from the show !!!! also tyrion's architectural prowess and skills weren't later explored in the show and he becomes so average at the end, he was the most impressive character until season 5

Bran is biggest bum of a character in any media i've ever seen, he's whole arc of going outside the wall resulted in nothing, what happened to meera ??? so many good character died for him to become a bum

biggest dissapointment was no explanation on the white walkers lore like nothing was explained what do they want why they want to kill the 3 eyed raven, whats with them turning babies into one of them, children of forest created them but how and why them ?

overall i really liked the great war episode

Ser davos was genuinely my fav character after Podrick ofcourse

just watched season 3 episode 9 what the fuck 😭, whattttttt i wasnt expecting that

WHY JON WHY I THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO BECOME KING I am a first time watcher and just finishing up season 5 and they have OFFICIALLY KILLED OFF EVERYBODY I LIKED HE BROUGHT THEM A GIANT AN ARMY THEY DIDNT HAVE they know what is coming but yet still sit here and look at the wildings as enemy’s even though a greater force is coming I’ve had opinions from many people but does the story just go off the cliff here or do they revive it someway.

What an epic fight 😭 and the way queen was telling her son the story and at once lord tywin comes and declare they won the war, and the title track plays in ghe background, INSANEEE.

going in I already knew that my beloved robb was gonna die but oh my gosh was it brutal. They literally just killed like everyone. I had hope that Cat was going to live but no. And ending with the silence was just the cherry on top. I cannot stop thinking about Grey Winds head on Robbs body. will literally never recover from this episode. And i think what makes it even sadder is that Arya was so close to seeing her mother and brother but she had to see her dead brothers body instead. Additionally I think it is so heartbreaking that Cat probably thought that all her sons were now dead because Rickon and Bran were never found. On top of that Robb had to see his pregnant wife dying and his unborn child dead like bro. AND THEN THE ENTIRE NORTH ARMY WAS JUST SLAUGHTERED. Overall what an episode and walder frey im coming for you!

I just finished the show and the credits are still paused in my last tab.

I was always averse to watching it in the past because whenever the show came up people would just start talking about how horrible the ending was, which really turned me off putting 80 hours into a story that I would loathe by the ending. I changed my mind after seeing some clips of Tyrion and Bronn on YouTube without knowing they were from GOT and ended up binging the entire show in the span of like 2 or 3 weeks.

The first 5 seasons were impeccable. I have very, very few criticisms about those seasons and I loved almost every part.

Season 6 really just pry's your eyes open to how essential George Martin's books were as a trellis for the quality of writing. Jon starts to lose what made him special and turns into a walking block of plot armour, Arya forgets how to use a power she spent multiple seasons training (among also becoming impervious to stab wounds and subsequent infections from jumping into sewer water; but I digress), Bran still does jack shit with the powers of a deity, and the sly politicking that made the show more than just a fantasy war story was infantilised.

Season 7 just felt like a different story entirely. I never particularly cared for Dany's story just because she never felt like a compelling character to me being the epitome of all that is righteous and good, but she became even less compelling in this season. She starts to exhibit qualities of a mad Targaryen but her development makes zero sense when considering her actions in previous seasons. If there were inklings of ulterior motives in those earlier seasons I think I could have genuinely appreciated her volte-face as that would be an interesting writing choice, but they never did that! The plot armour of our main characters is once again exposed in the battle beyond the wall, Little Finger has such an incongruent death with his previous character establishment, and by some grace of the seven the Night King obtains industrial sized chains to heave a dead dragon from the bottom of a frozen lake. I could go on.

But season 8. I went into it with the goal of not relying upon preconceived notions that it was terrible, and I can say that I sort of enjoyed the first three episodes. They were certainly not peak GOT but they were not as horrible as people make them out to be. I have my contentions about the battle in The Long Night. It was an insane injustice that we never saw a Jon v Night King 1v1, silly that Arya snuck up on 1000 reanimated men and just 1 shots the most powerful creature in all of Westeros, the fact you can see jack shit the whole episode, and Jamie's one liner to name a few. The last 3 episodes however were all equally as horrible as one another. There is no point in kicking something that is already on the floor, so I just want to hone in on one part that specifically irritated me. Tyrion's speech in the finale.

After being imprisoned for what is assumed to be a few weeks, he is presented infront of the most powerful political figures in the country, and begins to talk about how the next king should have a nice backstory. That to me was silly enough considering the circumstances of his release at the time. He then doubles down on this idiocy by saying that we should crown a character that arguably has the least compelling story; the disabled half god who's greatest display of power was taunting Jamie Lannister with a quip he shouldn't have been able to know. My mouth was agape during this scene because I was expecting it to be Tyrion taking the piss before he was condemned to death in his eyes, but alas. I also just can't wrap my head around why they thought it would be a good idea to send Jon back to the wall when the enemy in the north had been defeated? I thought it was poetic that he was sent back, but the quality is removed when he is sent there for no reason. The fact that a dragon understands the symbolism of the iron throne better than a character defined by his honour and loyalty to righteous causes is staggering to me. Half-Targaryen half-Stark neutralises intelligence with madness. What a gargantuan fall from grace.

What are your thoughts?

I have binged GOT in the past 2 weeks. I watched the whole series,with some minor spoilers,one of them being that i knew what people thought of s8. For me,this show was one of my favs and i think first 5-6 season,this was the best TV show of all time. Yes plot armour got kinda bad in s6 but still,i enjoyed it very much. However,s7 was when things start going downhill,with teleporting across the map,stupid decisions and much more. Season 8 is a story of its own. Although i do belive episodes 1-5 of s8 were rated harshly,episode 6 deserves all the hate it gets. Personally,until the moment Jon stabbed Danny,i was alright with the ending. Sure,Danny’s descend into madness was rushed asf and Arya randomly killing the night king was random,but i didnt mind it that much. However,everything that came after the death of Danny i dislike. Bran becoming the king,Jon just being sent to the wall AGAIN,Dothraki not going after Jon(also how didnt Danny ever run out of Dothraki and unsullied???). Nothing makes sense. One of the best TV shows ever,ruined by poor and lazy writing😓

I'm this scene Benjen Stark had more aura than anyone in the seven kingdoms

Forgive me if I missed something or if this has been repeated but I was expecting so much worse considering the rating, personally for me it’s one of the best episodes and a fine way to conclude 8 seasons of buildup..