re: How long will it take for the stink to wear off of Game of Thrones

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I wont finish the books

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Neither will Martin.

Never.

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No amount of stench from the final season can erase the greatness from the first several seasons of Game of Thrones

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I disagree. Part of the greatness is all the scheming and manipulation, the dealing off the bottom of the deck etc as people build alliances and start making moves.

Jorah's path is great.

Jon's, no. His resurrection meant nothing, he truly served no purpose. He saved the Wildlings a bit (but then got them slaughtered at BOB). He brought Dany and her armies North, which ultimately meant nothing. Worse than nothing, if she stayed South the Night King doesn't breach the Wall, Dany takes KL with all 3 dragons, Missandei and Jorah are alive, and Dany rules like she does at Meereen.

She then turns her attention North, and Jon, as he does before, successfully negotiates a peace (the North isn't concerned about the Iron Throne, it is concerned with Beyond the Wall). Jon bends the knee in return for help defending the Wall. Perhaps we lose a dragon strafing the other side of the Wall, and perhaps we see the final battle at Winterfell after all. But we don't see the Mad Queen, and even if Sam and Bran do their meddling (hell, Jon doesn't want the Throne anyway and likes her), the Seven Kingdoms come out in better shape afterwards.

Yes, it is true. Every person she killed before that moment deserved it. The slavers deserved it. The slave owners deserved it. Sam's dad asked for it. Varys tried to have her poisoned. The witch killed her husband and unborn child. Dothraki dudes wanted her to stay in a little hut the rest of her life. Everyone she killed before going mad deserved to die.

She never killed innocent women and children. So yeah, it was OUT OF THE BLUE.

Being pissed that everyone loved Jon and didn't care for her isn't enough in the short time shown to switch to Mad Queen.

It is bullshite to argue otherwise. HBO could have had more episodes to make the Mad Queen plot plausible. They didn't.

cant really say it much better than this

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What if in season 3 I could tell you that Dany actually goes mad and burn's King's Landing down with a combined force of Unsullied, Dothraki, and Northmen behind her facing off against the Lannisters and the Golden Company?

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Do you know how that question reads for someone who never took a peak at the book series or didn't pay very close attention to the details of the tv series? It's like a parody. No offense, but I cracked up.