Captain Dave Poulin
Imaginary Cat
I certainly understand how hard the task they were given is. For that, i certainly give them slack.
HOWEVER, the show clearly lost the quality of writing starting in Season 5 and it's just been worse and worse. Again, understandably, tough situation for the writers and GRRM's inability to progress the novels screwed them... but at this point it's basically 2 shows. GRRM's story which is special, and the second half a mediocre extension of it
I understand exactly what you are saying, and normally I would be the first out of the gate to criticize something that falls flat - like "The Walking Dead" - or loses its quality or consistency or whatever. But the whole situation with this, the fact that the show passed the books and will have an ending before the books will ... it's just such a rocket to the nuts that the only way I can deal with it is to just relax my standards and accept it as it is and not even think about the books or about what could have been. I was going to stop watching the show, but to do that you'd have to basically avoid spoilers, and that's all but impossible.