Proto_Spark posted... Weren't there reports earlier that Martin like, gave a general outline of how he wanted the story to end?
The last seasons which were very much bad because D&D didn't want to keep doing the show, so they definitely deserve some of the blame. Especially because the main issue with the ending wasn't really what happened at the end, but rather how it ended. If you told someone at like season 4 how the series ended, they'd probably be like "yeah I can see that", but Seasons 7/8 didn't really do a lot of the work that was required to get to that ending point.
But there's also not a chance anyone would have really been able to wrap up some of these things well, and the books have even more random loose ends and **** that would need to be tied up.
I'm of the opinion there just wasn't a good way to wrap up the Night King and Coming Winter stuff.
I started to notice even before season 6, but it was season 6 that really confirmed and made it super obvious that they just wanted the show to be
done. The whole
making arya a master assassin instantly and bran automatically becoming the new all seeing 3 eyed raven just like that are just some examples of them just doing spark notes TV and blazing through it.
You know what's funny is that the night man hasn't even been introduced in the books yet. We got appearances for the blue eyed snow zombies, but no nightman cometh yet.