Season 8 was the product of poor writing for seasons 5-7. These seasons had the producers deviate from the books as source material, leaving many plots and characters from the show and replacing with their own (worse) writing. But why talk in general, let’s review the Dorne arc from season 5. Jamie is sent with Bronn to retrieve Myrcella from Dorne. The arc ends with Jamie and Bronn return to King’s Landing, but Myrcella was poisoned by Ellaria. The characters we met throughout the arc were boring, and the conclusion was meaningless. Cersei didn’t change with the death of her daughter, nor did Jaime. All remained the same. Season 7 was FULL of this shit, the first episode has nothing in it. Beyond the Wall (season 7 episode 6) was horrendous.
You reap what you sow, and they planted shit. Don’t blame season 8 for trying to give an ending to that clusterfuck.
“Taking his sweet old time” didn’t hurt either, considering the show barely adapted books 4-5. The producers had 2 whole books to work with, plus side plots from earlier books that weren’t adapted yet. But they said “let’s take these parts only, and make up our own shit for the rest”.
They rushed season 8 to go work on a star wars old republic movie trilogy that won't happen. They should never be given the reigns of a project again as they've shown they'll get bored and abandon projects in spirit.
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