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haxxiy on 21 August 2017
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Barkley said:

Honestly this is the first episode where the rushing to the end thing hit me really hard.

I wanted this season to be focused on a war between Daenerys and Cersei, I wanted large battles between human army's, I'm not ready for the series to go full white-walker focused.

I've loved this season so far, but the last episodes focus on the dead really bothered me, and then you realise how many other characters have been neglected by this rush to the final battle between the living and the dead.

What the hell happened to grey-worm and the rest of the unsullied and Euron Greyjoy.

What happened to Yara Greyjoy? She was paraded through kings landing and then promptly disappeared.

Theon has been completely neglected, since his sister has been taken in episode 1 we've had two brief scenes in the next 5 episodes. The one where he was fished onto the ship "If you tried you wouldn't be here." and then the very brief scene with Jon Snow, which was more focused on Jon being angry to see him then what was actually going on with Theon'.

They needed to keep it at 10 episodes, they've rushed through so much and neglected so many characters and story lines to where if it's not directly around the main (Daenerys, Jon, Starks, Lannisters) we have no idea what the hell is going on.

This was my favourite season, but episode 6 may have changed that, we'll see how it ends but my expectations are lowered.

The show is at it's strongest showing conflict between complex characters scrambling for power, not a black and white, living vs dead, good vs evil, generic threat. The white walkers have no personality.

Unfortunately, I think GRRM is as much to blame as the show writers here. Originally he was supposed to write a trilogy where the middle book concerned Dany's invasion and the last one dealed with the threat of the Others. So far, he has written five books and only the first part of his intended trilogy is done, and there is only two books to go. If they ever come out, I would guess the story is going to be rushed as well, unless he keeps developing it on the same pace as the previous volumes, but that would probably mean he never finishes the series...