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Originally Posted by Superturtle
It's a mediocre ending. People comparing it to Dexter or Lost are out of their goddamned minds. The only thing bad is the writing in spots and the rushed pace. Everything else from the actors on down to the music is still top notch. You'd have an extremely hard time making a power hour of Daenerys and Drogon slaughtering people while other characters either have their emotional sendoffs or bloody duels to the death boring.
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Pacing is absolutely the problem with this season.
In years past we would have gotten a full season leading up to the Night King. In fact it would have played out like season 7 and the first four episodes of season 8 and then the last three episodes would have gotten their own 10-episode story.
A good case in point is Clegane. We would have had an entire episode of the Hound and Arya deciding to go to Kings Landing. Instead it happens over 30 seconds. If works, but it doesn’t give us the same build up and payoff as past seasons where we felt and understood the character’s journeys.