GOT: Season 8

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Making Arya the Master of Whispers wouldn't have been the "happy" ending for her though. She went through all that stuff to prepare her to kill the Night King. She completed her task which is kind of what the Hound told her. It didn't matter how the last name on her list died because she was going to die. It freed her to be who she really wanted to be. The same could be said for Jon. He would have made a good king but it wouldn't have made him happy. He was happiest when he was with the Free Folk.

I think they didn't show Jon get arrested because they didn't know how to get him in a cell without a fight with Grey Worm where one of them dies. They also gave Grey Worm his happiest ending by going where he told Messandi that they would go.

The Yara issue is a weird issue that I didn't think about. The only thing I can think of is Yara pledged that the Iron Islands wouldn't be raiders anymore and even though Dany is dead, she still feels that oath.

There are definitely writing issues with it. It felt there were some leaps in the story that were necessary but they didn't have time because of the shortened season. They should have done 10 episodes like HBO wanted and it would have probably been A LOT better.

I read an article last night that said the clock was ticking on their Star Wars trilogy and they needed to wrap up GoT ASAP. In fact, HBO told Benioff and Weiss they'd give them ten episodes each over an hour and even put a ninth season on the table too (Cause GoT is a cash cow for HBO) but they told HBO it was over and they only needed six episodes to wrap it up. It's obvious now they were probably already working on the Star Wars script while wrapping up GoT.

That whole last episode would have been three episodes a few seasons ago. Without GRRM to guide them they just floundered. BTW, why wasn't GRRM feeding them drafts from Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring? GRRM doesn't have anything worth giving them? I believe GRRM has changed some major parts of the story.