Game of Thrones final season [spoilers]

[Amarok]

I don't know. I think it would have been a better move to have kept the season at 8 episodes rather than 6, and spent more time on the writing and planning the battle strategies so they didn't make the characters look like idiots.

Yay riveting TV .

I don't have an issue with not getting a fairy tale ending; I have an issue with getting an ending that doesn't present a conclusion that fits the themes of the story.

Themes like ?

They took uncharacteristic actions and made uncharacteristically bad decisions so the required events could unfold with the appropriate stakes.

Bad decisions  that are not like earlier like ? Uncharacteristic decisions  like ?

Characters were spared the deaths they'd sown so they'd be available for later scenes.

You mean like what they have been doing since season 2 

Gone was the conflict between complicated people with incompatible goals.

I think not being turned into zombies is pretty compatible goal and really ones complicated anymore are you sure were watching the same show ?

Grey morality turned black and white.

Like ? The Night King was never going to be a nice guy he was a weapon made to kill shit . Cersi has always been cruel power hungry bitch . Dany literally says over and over again she was going to burn cities down .

Characters rushed through their foreshadowed arcs for the thinnest of reasons, or in some cases reversed their arcs entirely.

Yes because arcs can only go one way apparently . And rushed like ?

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the White Walkers could have put up more of a fight, for one thing, but

How much more of a fight ? How many episodes till you then be complaining “well this dragging on “

Many plots were cut short, in a fairly abrupt and unsubtle way and without much explanation, or consequences.

I have yet to hear a good example that in any way effects the plot in significant way 

And this last season is pretty much bare-bones in terms of story

You mean focused on the actual plot

almost all the remaining characters are in one location and have pretty much the same goals and the rest of the - once rich and diverse - world might as well not exist.

Because this is were the plots happening

It's way too linear for my taste, never mind the (relatively) break-neck speed with which major events unfold and a lack of sense of the passage of time, which makes the world of Westeros feel small

As opposed to the slow meandering sub plots of the earlier  6 seasons 

Sure, but we already know, that the main threat, that set the tone for the entire story, is gone. Seemingly - so are the other remaining main villains. And while the "Mad Queen"  could have been an interesting plot development, there's not enough time left for it to go anywhere.

Considering it's been going on since season two how much more do you want . People live with this idea Dany just turned mad . She's going on about burning armies and city since the beginning .The only reason Dany hasn't done this earlier is because there was always someone to talk her out of it .

At this point I can't see how we can get a fitting ending to the story unless we decide, that the theme of the show is stabbing misbehaving monarchs.

That's literally is what the shows been about