I used to love the show and be super invested. That really changed once they fucked up with Season 5. I stopped caring about it and realized it was a soap opera and a piece of trash. I've been laughing at this show for years. At first it was shocking moments for the sake of shocking moments. Then it was like 'the good guys don't always win, its realistic' and then they give Ramsay Bolton the most ridiculous villain plot armor I've ever seen. And now its up to the phase of the 'Last Jedi' and subverting your expectations. It has literally gone through multiple bad writing trends that were in style at the time. Its like they looked at other shows and picked the worst shit about them. Then they watched the Last Jedi before they wrote Season 8. Its the Mass Effect of television. The first part was really great. The set-up to the second got you revved up, but it was a little lacking, but fun as hell. Then you get to the third and it shits itself and you realize, just like Mass Effect, they had absolutely no plan or idea on how to finish the series.
Its just gotten funnier. Its probably going to get absolutely hilarious because they have absolutely no time to set up what they want to do. There's no possible way it will make the least bit of sense and be absolutely ridiculous. I'm looking forward to the salt when Dany inevitable invades and just starts murdering everybody because she lost a dragon and her token black friend.
Also if Rain Johnson complains on Twitter about the ending there is going to be so much fucking snark to him about 'subverting expectations' it will break the internet.
Oh, and ending the series? I mean, the shit isn't hard. Have the White Walkers be completely mysterious. Make Bran the key to being the only one to talk to them. Redo Hardhome so there's no ultimate evil. Keep the baby turning thing since that's the only way the Others allow him to stay. The White Walkers are actually servants of the Others. Not the real thing. Seasons 8, 9 and 10 are all about the long night enveloping Westeros and the consequences it brings. From top to bottom, the old legends start to come true. Jon is Azhori Ahi, the Prince Who is Promised who leads the remnants of men. Since the others rarely ever reveal themselves, have Jon and a handful of characters go on a suicide mission to find 'The Others' with Bran, who has seen the past, but can't make it out since it is so distant, but he knows there's something beyond the dead and the white walkers responsible for the Long Night. Political shit still goes on, but everyone who focuses on it dies a horrible fucking death. Good and bad. Only those united around Jon survive. After going through the wall, the wights, they finally reach the others. Bran speaks with them and the revelation is that the Others aren't evil, but that ages ago the wall was built as a treaty between the realms of men and the realms of the other. Peace would hold as long as the men stayed on their side of the wall. It wasn't something that kept them out, it was to keep men from going in. The realms of men, being mortal, eventually forgot about all this. The Wildlings broke the peace, and the Others don't recognize the different factions of men. The initial deaths and circles were warnings for them to leave before peace was broken, but because the Others can't communicate with humans, the Wildlings have no clue what is going on. This leads to the long night and the war on men. Jon has to broker peace with them, he was brought back from the dead not to defeat them, but to bring peace to the realms of men and the Others. Jon marries or stays with the others as a show of unity (or Reborn Ygritte as an 'Other'), while the long night and the war on men ceases and the wall is rebuilt. Dany goes back to rule the Seven Kingdoms, which have been completely devastated. She is the queen of ashes, as the prophecy foretold. The last scene is her sitting on the Iron Throne, alone, in a decimated King's Landing. Fade to black.
