ParanoidObsessive posted...ajmrowland1 posted...
That whole storyline was weak. No spoilers, it just felt like one hamfisted 180 degree dramatic turn after another and I'm glad it ended, regardless.
It's because the show sort of floundered once they left GRRM's writing behind and had to start coming up with their own plots (ie, he told them how the story is supposed to end, but not how he was planning to get there, so now they're struggling to connect the dots). Nor does it really help that they now feel like they have to close off every hanging storyline in the span of two short seasons, so a lot of stuff is going to feel rushed while other stuff simultaneously feels a bit aimless.
It doesn't flounder that much in Season 6 for me. I think the main issue is, like you say, they realized they only had 13 episodes left in the entire series after Season 6 got criticized for being too long and uneventful, so the flow of Season 7 suffers as a result of having too many things to do with too little time.
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