I just realise, if you remove the L + R = J aspect of the show, it wouldn't even affect the ending! LMAO

people who think this season is good obviously binge watch the whole show within weeks and won't notice the stark(no pun intended) difference between the writing of season 7 and 8 with the rest of the seasons.

Call me salty all you want lol, but the writing was what got me into the GOT and the books, not the visual effects or your hollywood pew pew pew mumbo jumbo

finale wrapped up nicely.

this season feels as tho RR Martin just told the directors how it would vaguely end, directors just try work it in within 6 episodes. story and writing really look a hit but cinematic scenes were top notch.. Drogon scenes were like from a painting.

never read the books, but remember the day i watched it the trailer and first episode. followed it every week ever since.

The ending was ok la, poor Jon

HBO want to give DB Weiss and David Benioff 10 Episodes. The directors said they can finish the series by 6. They just want their contract to end. Agreed with you though the ending wrapped up nicely

So anybody sign the petition?

The ending is perfect for Jon Snow the character. He never wanted the throne. But its not the perfect ending for jon in fan perspective.

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It all comes down to how stories are crafted, and for that, we need to start with two different types of writers: plotters and pantsers. Plotters create a detailed outline before they commit a word to the page. Pantsers prefer to discover the story as they write it—flying by the seat of their pants, so to speak. Both approaches have their advantages. Since plotters know the story in advance, it's easier to create tight narratives with satisfying conclusions. But that amount of predestination can sometimes make characters feel like cogs in service of the story. Pantsers have an easier time writing characters that live and breathe. They generate the plot by dropping a person with desires and needs into a dramatic situation and documenting the results. But with the characters in charge, pantsers risk a meandering or poorly paced structure, and they can struggle to tie everything together.
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Then, with the start of season 7, they shifted their focus from telling the unfolding story of an entire world to concluding a particular tale set within it. They gave themselves a fixed endpoint—13 episodes to the finale, and no more.
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Then, presumably, they asked themselves questions. What big set pieces did they want to deliver? What surprises could rival the greatest twists of the show? Which of the remaining conflicts would yield the best drama, and which onscreen pairings would bring the most emotion? What did they think we, the audience, wanted to finally see before it was all over? It was a Game of Thrones bucket list. And once they had that list, they needed to maneuver the characters into place.
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That's why Game of Thrones feels different now. A show that had been about our inability to escape the past became about the spectacle of the present. Characters with incredible depth and agency—all the more rope with which to hang themselves—became whatever the moment needed them to be. They took uncharacteristic actions and made uncharacteristically bad decisions so the required events could unfold with the appropriate stakes. Characters were spared the deaths they'd sown so they'd be available for later scenes. Organic consequences gave way to contrivance. Gone was the conflict between complicated people with incompatible goals. Grey morality turned black and white. Characters rushed through their foreshadowed arcs for the thinnest of reasons, or in some cases reversed their arcs entirely. The characters just weren't in charge anymore. The ending was.
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To be fair, it all happens because a fat king got killed while hunting boar.

YOU DAM FOOL Ned Stark said to the fat king before he passed.

Ned Stark has forseen everything haha

YOU DAM FOOL Ned Stark said to the fat king before he passed.

Ned Stark has forseen everything haha

Black of what?   The white walkers are gone. And why he need to take the black?  He killed the queen but he is also the rightful king. So he don't need to take black..He can just fly away with Drogon.

Bran becomes king...Bran doesn't need a council. All the advise he ever needs is inside his head, no?    He sees everything (Isn't that what he said? "I'm the Three Eyed Raven. I see everything now") and he wants nothing (He said that to Tyrion, "I don't want anymore".)

So if this spoiler/leak is actually true, then it has damn a lot of plot holes. And why is Bronn there? Where is his castle? He should just take the crossbow shoot Tyrion dead and ride into the sunset. Just like a cowboy movie....
And Davos should go back to smuggling onions....

Comment for the last episode pls