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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Season 6 was excellent to me, I really liked the religious fanatics story line. It was really the last season where we saw the underlying political manipulation of the game of thrones that made the series so exceptional and different from a Dungeon's and Dragons quest adventure that it became in 7 and 8.
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It's fascinating to watch the game pieces being endlessly re-arranged, but at some point they need to get pushed into the middle and battle it out...it would just be nice to have more time to explore the new realities of the aftermath of it all.
In hindsite, it would have been better if S7 culminated in the fight with the Night King, leaving a full season 8 for the humans to sort out the aftermath. Viserion becoming an Ice Dragon was a holy#### moment (and fun thing to speculate on between seasons) that didn't really pay off. There was never an easy/logical way of getting Daeny and her dragons beyond the wall, but it could have been done a lot more efficiently and less silly than how it happened. Instead of the 'Bad Plan' of convincing Cercei to join the fight against the dead, it should have only been a matter of convincing Daeny that it was an inevitable battle to be fought, and by doing so first she would also be advancing towards her ultimate goal by earning the loyalty of Westeros kingdom(s).
Imagine S8E1, 2, & 3 as the ending to season 7. Could have been so much more time to develop the endgame (stuff like Daeny burning the Tully's could have happened in S8 instead).
The death of Rhaegal should have been a far more monumental event that helped shape the conclusion. Did we ever really see Daenarys mourn either loss (off the top of my head it seemed more like how she'd feel if a car she loved got written off in an accident than one of her 'children')?
Perhaps our introduction to the Golden Company could have been a dastardly ambush of an injured Rhaegal. Then we get several episodes of Jon and her advisors restraining Daeny's impulse to rule the ashes as the rest of the gamepieces are actually dealt with (picking sides).
The omnipotence of Drogon in the Bells episode didn't add up, but it could have if we felt like both he and Daeny were simmering their fire/rage for long enough that it eventually boiled over.
All of the ingredients were there, they just added some ingredients too soon and left a lot until the very end so they came out undercooked.