GoT season 8 final episode 6 tonight. (spoiler discussion) Fin. The end... for ever. D&D can burn in the seven hells.

[Scoobes]

chakkra said:

Barkley said:

It was really weird how they handled that, I was expecting us to get big reveals about the White Walkers/Night King and Bran/The Three Eyed raven this season but we learned basically nothing new about them, I was sure it'd come up again after episode 3 but it didn't. Nor did we learn anything about the lord of light either.

This is my biggest issue with the series as a whole. The very first scene of the whole series was with the whitewalkers.

Yes, the political drama was interesting and everything, but kings and villains kept coming and going every season, but the inminent threat that there was something else bigger than them all and their petty desires and greed, was always looming on the horizon. Since the very first episode.

So it was a HUGE disappointment for me when they were dealt with at the beginning of the season, because everything after that just felt.. pointless. No sense of danger. No sense of dread. Nothing.

It felt as if, after defeating Sauron in LoTR, Aragon and the other kings had spent one more hour of movie fighting each other for Middle Earth.

The LotR did have the hobbits having to save the shire from Saruman (in the books) after defeating Sauron. I believe this is what GRRM is aiming for at the end of ASOIAF hence the end of this season. The big evil is defeated but people still have to figure out life afterwards leaving a bittersweet taste.