These Are The Days
Oh no! We suck again!!
Everyone becomes a Mary Sue/Marty Stu cartoon at the end though. Tyrion and Sansa get it the worst. Euron always was. Arya gets her moments.
Emilia Clarke was able to overcome her writing much better than Kit Harrington IMO. Maybe a supporting player like Gwen Christie/Brienne would be deserving for season 8 as well.
Don't even get me started on Sansa/Sophie Turner. Season 8 was garbage because somehow overnight Sansa became the gold standard of everyone being smart. For 7 seasons the show taught us that every Stark with the sole exception of Rickon (because we hardly ever saw him and I never saw any bad choices on his end) was the most honorable person you could meet but was absolutely dumb as hell in the "common sense" department and their decision making/or lack thereof would backfire immensely. Sansa married a Bolton after the Joffrey fiasco (I don't want to hear the Littlefinger excuse) Robb didn't keep his promise (even more stupid) Jon Snow made peace with wildlings (very honorable but still not a good idea) Bran climbed the tower after he said he wouldn't (stupid and probably should've died for it) and Arya somehow didn't get the idea that she was messing with powerful people and blinded herself. Oh yeah and there was Ned... damn it Ned. But now after all that, suddenly the "Stjoopid gu'l with stjoopid dreams" is queen chess player. The show didn't just bend over backward to accommodate her supposed new intelligence, it did the equivalent of throwing the chess board across the room. More than rushing season 8, that is what I will forgive D&D the least for.
By the time season 7 was over I hated Sansa more than any character and by the end of season 8 it wasn't even close