(August 29, 2017 at 6:51 am)Iroscato Wrote: I get the vague impression you didn't take too kindly to s7, for some reason.
I've not been particularly impressed ever since the show got ahead of the books. Too many stupid, half-baked plots of no particular consequence, convenient and/or predictable twists, people acting out of character, or just completely moronically. Everybody wearing "plot armor", except for people the writers don't know what to do with anymore, who get brought back and killed off ASAP, in order to tie up loose ends, without having to come up with ideas, stories, or explanations. Generally - lazy writing. If there's a plot-hole, or an inconsistency, the writers seem to think that having some character openly point it out, or make a joke about it - means it's no longer a problem.
This show used to be unpredictable, at least in the sense, that you could expect any of the main characters to die, pretty much at any time. When was the last time an important person and a fan-favorite died? And with this stupid Hollywood ending, that's obviously coming up, aimed at suburban housewives - the stakes seem the lowest they've ever been.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
