I was fine with "it's only a TV show" up until this. But this was just shit. And maybe it is only a TV show, but when you feel invested in any story, it does piss you off when they offer something this weak to wrap it up. I'm sure I'm already over it, in terms of having any kind of emotional response, but it was still a rubbish end to a bad season. I was rather hoping that season 8 would be great, and then when it turned out it wouldn't be, I was rather hoping the last episode might close down each character in an interesting way. But for so many characters, who had spent the entire series changing, and by the time they actually changed, there wasn't much for them to do. Sansa and Arya, in particular. Bran, to a lesser extent (cos he never developed much of a character). Gendry, Bron, Brienne, Pod. They just all lived happily ever after ruling a city that presumably doesn't have many people left in it. Sure, some of them were involved in the battle of winterfell, but winning fights was never where the dramatic satisfaction came from in the show.
And John Snow going to the wall was such a shit idea. I wasn't desperate for him to be king, but honestly, if that's their best attempt at reaching an unexpected but dramatically fulfilling end, then... I don't know. Thinking about it, if it had been told right, it might not have felt so disappointing. I suppose I can see a smidgen of irony. But it felt ridiculous, because they'd just unanimously elected a king that had no experience of leadership, who punished a loved family member for the crime of killing a genocidal maniac to appease some foreign soldiers who were all leaving anyway. And they did it with some of the clunkiest dialogue ever written.
I'm not gonna go on about this, or keep responding to replies, because going on too much about any film/show/book is quite tedious. But it was shit. Really, really shit.
