It's not that it's bad, it's just that the makers assumed a level of unforgetability in the myriad eons between seasons, that simply doesn't exist. These characters with depth and story and feeling are nothing more than the vaguest fragments of memory to me. Between the seasons I have strayed out of thought and time. They have assumed a level of impact that has not prevailed. All of their hopes and dreams are but a fleeting moment in my mind, I feel no more bound to their fate than that of a passing moth. The rings may have a lord, but the maintenance of intrigue has a serf in a field, with an emaciated oxen at the plough.