re: Game of Thrones officially jumped the shark one year ago today...

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But then D&D fricked it up by having them both live after the battle while somehow completely overwhelmed and trapped inside fighting. Then Jaime decides, nah frick it, I’ll take that long road back down south to my true love that I just recently turned on and travelled far away to get away from.

It ruined both the story arcs. What should have happened is Jaime makes her a knight, Brienne saves Jaime during the battle and dies. Jaime survives, gives her a Knight’s funeral or some symbolic gesture and goes down to King’s Landing and somehow manages to kill Cersei. Not hold her in his fricking arms and have both of them killed by falling bricks

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I could've reconciled them both surviving the battle and finally being together, if when Jaime had left for King's Landing he then died killing Ceresi.

As for the last season, there were some things I liked and some I didn't. I was ok with Jon Snow going back beyond the wall. That's where he was most at peace with himself.

I don't blame D&D as much as I do GRRM for dicking around with his writing knowing they were better off with source material to follow. They were likely given the impression, like all of the rest of us who have been reading for years now, that the book series would be finished (or close enough so they'd have material) by the end. He's probably writing another fricking cookbook in quarantine.