My biggest complaint is that Arya served no purpose in the finale so she should've been killed off in the last episode when Daenerys torched everything, and THAT's what should've set Jon off and made him decide to kill Daenerys.

I enjoyed it. My biggest quibble with the finale is that when the lords aye to Bran for king and Sansa demands independence for the north, there's no reaction from the other lords. Not very realistic.

I want to see a spinoff called West of Westeros more than the upcoming prequel series.

I’m surprised the backlash for this was as strong as last week. Or maybe its just carrying over?

I'd be shocked honestly if it DOESN'T happen.

A. Maise Williams is 22 years old. At some point this spinof series will be developed and pitched and she'll probably say fuck it and do it.

B. It's a completley new setting that isn't bogged down with any past history or limitations. They can make up anything they want which gives them a lot of creative freedom

C. Arya is the most liked character by series end (Dany had this going into the season by Arya killing NK and Dany going Mad Queen cemented Arya as the fan favorite). Even with the subpar reaction to the last season, a significant majority of fans would be excited for this show.

This show will happen in the next 10-15 years (which in the age of content is a long time from now).

Additionally, I am 99% sure that if GRRM actually finishes the books, HBO will develop an animated series that depicts the story as the books have it, similar to how Fullmetal Alchmeist: Brotherhood differed from the original series.

Everyone is fooling themselves if they think we're just going to get one prequel series after this. The prequel is just the first of many content coming.

Looking back, Season 7 could/should been 10 episodes by simply including the first three episodes of Season 8 as its final three episodes.

Doing so would have resulted in Season 7 ending with the Battle for Winterfell and concluding the Night King/White Walker story, which would have worked out quite perfectly in my eyes. Sure, it may have felt a little rushed, but at ten episodes, I don't think fans would have been quite as upset.

That way the build up to Dany turning would have already began at the end of Season 7 with Jon's revelation to her, and all of Season 8 could be spent on just the Game of Thrones, and cementing her turn at the end of the season. Episode 1 would have opened on a somber tone, very similar to episode 4 of the season, but rather than Dany deciding to storm King's Landing immediately after with a weary army and injured Rhaegal, her conflicts with Jon and Tyrion, Varys' betrayal, and her relationships with the rest of Westeros could have been developed in the earlier episodes of the season instead. Then there could have been an actual naval battle at Dragonstone (could have remained an ambush*) that resulted in Rhaegal's death, Missandei's capture, her fleet destroyed, etc., in the middle of the season.

*Said ambush could have even be written as a plot by Varys.

Basically, I think they had all but a few pieces of the puzzle on the table; they just laid them out incorrectly. Overall, I still enjoyed the season and think a lot of the backlash is unwarranted (even childish at times).

Then, to make matters even more fucked, Jon Snow, who'd been devasted when that first wave of soldiers were killed in The Bells, he suddenly starts defending her burning the whole city to Tyrion; and apparently missed everything she said in her speech. Love might do a lot of things, but it won't do that.

And wasn't it great how Snow's whole claim to the throne, and his lineage as a Targarian, suddenly evaporated into him being locked in a cell? They tied his arc up but cutting it off altogether, as though that entire subplot hadn't even existed.

Tyrion didn't even attempt to convince grey worm, just went straight to the wheelchair sorcerer because he listened to his story one night. Lazy as fuck, just for the sake of remaining unpredictable - Sansa and Tyrion and Bran together, given their collective persuasiveness and apparent authority over the will of the unsullied, could have very easily made Jon king - not that he would've been the most interesting option, but the end result made as much sense as Aragorn losing the throne of Gondor in the final act of ROTK, to Samwise. That's how fucking stupid it was.

Extremely shit end, to a sometimes impressive season, of a show that overall deserved a lot better.