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Originally Posted by Mike F
For truly great TV shows, which deserve re-watching, the joy when re-watching them comes not from getting to the big answers, which are known from the start, but in revisiting all the great individual moments along the way and, hopefully, seeing how all those great individual moments inevitably led to those final answers. The problem with this last season is that all of the connective tissue between big moments has been stripped away, leaving huge logic gaps, plot holes, and/or decisions not supported by any internal logic. On re-watching, all of those things and their marked difference from the first six seasons of the show will be even more glaring and will tarnish the show's overall quality.
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The hardest thing to do with a long running successful show is to end it. Breaking Bad suffered from similar issues as it's final season really wasn't that great relative to the rest of the series. GOT has more working against it as it's a much larger budget show with considerably more characters and storylines so trying to wrap up 6 years worth of story telling in a short 7 episode season and equally short final season was always going to be a monumental task that was going to disappoint some. Ideally they would have gone to 10 seasons to properly close out all the storylines but it's clear that a lot of the actors are ready to move on to other endeavors and the cost of making the show was getting more expensive every year for HBO.