It's definitely true that there were glaring warning signs for what the show could become going all the way back to Season 2. I don't think the ripple effect that GRRM warned about is all that's to blame though. D&D were almost creatively empty when it came to this story. They even admitted after S8 aired that they were primarily concerned with appealing to football dads and hockey moms.
I agree 7's the worst, I just think 6 skates by too easily. I also think the last two episodes are very well presented pieces of shit. Sapochnik really bailed D&D out there(he couldn't save them in Season 8 though). lol
The last two episodes let me forgive a lot of the earlier season.
Season 7 has to be the answer here, though, because it's clear this is when D&D started massively speeding up plot and character movement so much that it felt like a different show, combined with character fates beginning to be decided in wholly unsatisfying and head-scratching ways.
I agree 7's the worst, I just think 6 skates by too easily. I also think the last two episodes are very well presented pieces of shit. Sapochnik really bailed D&D out there(he couldn't save them in Season 8 though). lol
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