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kind9 posted...

I thought the problem was that they ran out of source material and then forgot who all the characters were.

It's still absolutely worth watching imo.

It's more that they never really understood who the characters were in the first place, but that didn't matter so long as they were following someone else's story.

When they had to come up with their own, they started leaning too hard into fan service (People like Arya? Great, she's a super-hero now. People like Tyrion? Great, let's keep him front-and-center), even when it didn't necessarily serve the story.

Plus, they've said in the past that Martin told them how the story ends (which I assume means Dany dead and Bran on the throne), but not how it was going to get there, which meant they had to be good enough at storytelling to fill in the blanks and actually get those characters where they needed to be narratively, by the end. But they wasted three seasons avoiding any real character development because they're bad at storytelling, and then realized at the end they only had one season left (which was shortened because they wanted to leave and didn't really give a fuck), so everything got crammed in at the end and felt ridiculously unearned and unjustified.

At that point, they should have been like "Ehh, you know what? Fuck it." and just went with their own, completely different ending. It's not like Martin would be able to do anything about it at that point, and if they'd followed their fan-pandering to its natural conclusion, they at least could have had an ending that felt shallow but which people actually kind of enjoyed.

Or they could have gone with the Dany/Jon/Tyrion having threesomes ending that book readers have been predicting for a while based on in-story hints.
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