I only heard bad things about it so my expectations were pretty low, so naturally it wasn't as bad as I expected. Actually I thought it was better than season 7, which is more of a disappointment the more I think about it. I kept waiting for that one scene, that one Dexter moment that was meme-worthy and made the show an entire joke, but it never came. Instead I just have a list of minor complaints.
It was definitely too short. It ended well but there just wasn't enough show.
In spite of not being enough show, the first two episodes were basically filler and not a whole lot happened in the finale either.
Bran basically told Theon to kill himself when Arya was about 30 seconds away from killing the Night King and he knew it would happen.
Jaime's little reversal came out of nowhere and served no real purpose to the story or his character.
Dany's "spontaneous" rampage. I think this is probably the one people have the most issue with, but actually it makes a lot of sense if you were paying attention to her journey throughout the show and noticed the signs that she wasn't everything she was presenting herself to be. When she said she was going to "break the wheel" that was the biggest giveaway that things weren't going to end well. The biggest problem is there just wasn't enough insight into her inner psyche which caused her to snap. In a lot of ways it's similar to Breaking Bad with Jesse's realization about the cigarette. It was the only time I had ever been confused watching the show.
Jon kind of got a raw deal, but it shows how like his father he is, and that "no good deed goes unpunished" in the GoT world. Doing the right thing doesn't always mean doing the popular thing. But in a way he was rewarded for his previous efforts by becoming one of the free folk.
They picked Bran? Really? I know he was the one with "the least want of the throne", but he's so damn passive. I don't think he's even capable of making any decisions.
Overall I liked how it ended, I just wished we had another episode or two.