Finally watched this. Awesome show. Itโs a must watch tale of interesting characters and events. Incredible visual effects. Not giving 5 stars because brans character is underdeveloped and boring as hell he could have been way more interesting...aaaand the ending kinda sucked. Most of the last season was disappointing to be honest. The writers did a bad job of wrapping up the story. In a lot of different ways. A massive petition to remake season 8 sounded ridiculous when I first heard about it, but after watching it I completely agree. I wish they had remade it with more episodes and better writing to finish such an awesome story.
Spoilers below
The writers made a few bad decisions earlier in the plot that didnโt add up...the faceless god telling Arya to assassinate the actress that wasnโt evil so the younger evil actress can take her role, brans incredible three eyed raven journey that was somehow written boring as hell, people magically traveling from one side of Westeros to the other within days. A few plot lines were questionable to say the least. But even with a minor hiccup here and there the main story was awesome and all tied together well for the most part. Until the last season when half of the decisions made by characters became completely inconsistent with that character and unbelievable. This started to happen a lot in the seventh season really and went way left field by the eighth. The writers forced characters to make these โout of characterโ decisions to shove the plot in the direction they wanted, but it just didnโt work well. And the initial concept of anyone can die at anytime (which I absolutely loved) got thrown out and replaced by ridiculous unbelievable plot armor.
The final battle of Kings Landing was disappointing and didnโt add up, but the battle of the dead at Winterfell was the biggest disappointment for me. It was poorly written because the battle tactics that were used made zero sense, poorly filmed because itโs so damn dark you canโt see half of the battle, and chock full of ridiculous plot armor where most of the main characters were placed in unsurvivable situations and wouldnโt you know it...survived. Bran sat there and did absolutely nothing to help in the battle even though heโs a magical being. Didnโt really surprise me though because it was obvious the writers had no idea what to do with his character. Arya being the one to kill the Night King was cool, but the build up to it was non existent. Like weโre all just supposed to accept that she can jump past all those white walkers and stab the Night King with a dagger that was supposed to be in the crypts with her sister. The crypts that were shut and locked that other soldiers tried to get into but couldnโt. The burial crypts where the woman and children were told to hide from the โrising deadโ because the cleverest person in the entire story suggested they should hide there. So many holes...so many unbelievable decisions and circumstances. So many disappointments.
They rushed through the last season with 6 episodes and bad writing to come to a โshockingโ ending that made no sense. If they put more time building into this ending it would have been fine, but with the character development we were given (lack there of) the ending just didnโt work. Even with a let down finish GOT is still worth watching though for sure. Iโll probably read the books now. Hopefully George Martin finishes the story in a more โbelievableโ way that stays true to all the things that made us fall in love with this story.