re: Who is at fault for the GOT disaster finish?

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the widespread hatred for D&D didn't become "cool" until midway through this season.

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I didn't start disliking them until a week ago. AFter i had time to absorb the final episode and just think about how horribly they ended the job. How much they just forgot. I mean, you had legitimate backstory to characters and season 8 they just ignored those stories because they forgot. Then the rush to end the whole thing. And then Bran??? "Who has a better story than Bran the broken?" Literally every other character on the show. Not to mention the numerous contradictions throughout the last couple seasons of why Bran didn't even want to be King, and him just turning into a bird, again, for no reason, during the battle in ep. 3.

So much failure on D&D's part. And it's all becasue they wanted to hurry to get to Star Wars, which will continue to be a horrible failure because the premise is over, and the entire star wars universe should have ended after the return of the jedi.

5 was a disaster but people just didnt know better/didnt want to accept it yet after the greatness that was 4. hardhome was lone bright spot, just like BotB was the only bright spot of 6.

7 is every bit as bad as 8

It’s not that it’s cool. It’s that it’s the end. With season 7, people still had hope that they would end it well. But half way in season 8 it became obvious they wouldn’t. If someone died (like the NK) that was that. There’s no redeeming it because the story is over. With the earlier seasons, issues with certain storylines could be fixed (at least fans thought) because it wasn’t the end.

In addition people started to hate them more when it was revealed (about half way through the season) they were the ones who shortened it. Post episode comments like “Dany forgot about the Iron Born” didn’t help either.

D&D deserve 95% of the blame but some of you are incorrectly giving HBO a free pass on this. Yes, they advocated for more seasons and more episodes in each season but they could've done much more. They could've just fired D&D once they knew how they would ruin the franchise and found someone else who was willing to take on the challenge.

I think its pretty remarkable they kept the entire cast together except all the mountains. The book story has flaws most of which all the time Dany spent in Easteros doing things that didnt matter. The show mirrored those flaws and shot a couple of seasons that were just not needed and exhausted the quality of the show. Nobody had much left for the end. People moving to next project new jobs. Bottom line, they all stretched it out too much and should have been happy to focus on just core characters and story. I still enjoyed both books and show. The show ending was just not very good. Would have been better to end it two or three years ago.