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spoilers i guess

imo the books in particular really tried to avoid or at least not actively play into this, what with 'big' and more honourable characters dying at a moments notice, various competing forces of different levels of nonetheless grey morality and even the perceivedly 'better' characterts (jon, really) being reluctant or naive or generally willing to throw their lot in with less morally upstanding groups.

as with millions of things in the show at this point, i kinda feel this went badly off the rails once they lost the source material as a guide but they also played too much into it in the first place. it worked well when everybody loved robb only for him to get offed but it's really obvious now that they simply weren't able to do more nuanced characterisations of the likes of jon or dany so both of these characters amongst others now have legions of ardent fans and with the latter we've seen the character change being really badly and awkwardly received as a result.

i dont think all the blame can be laid on the showrunners here either because who could have predicted GOT would get *this* big but still. i kinda feel like they were given outlines of where the characters ended up but never quite followed through with them in a way that made the endpoint feel as natural as it could.