Game of Thrones is not just the best TV show of all time but is simply the greatest work of fiction to ever exist.
Don't get me wrong I'm a big fan of the world as Martin created it, I think it's an awesome mix of fantasy, history and mythology. It's arguably one of the best fantasy worlds ever created. It also often bucks the trend in regards to the good/evil divide which dominates this kind of fiction (Lord of the Rings, a great example of excellent world building and a great story is at it's most basic a clash between good and evil). Martin wrote characters and then transformed them through their arcs, a great example of this is Jaime who you hate in the first book/season and then come to respect and eventually like. There's a lot of grey areas and it's not a simple good/evil dichotomy.
Unfortunately this seems to have gone out of the window as the show has developed. Early on it kept close to the source material and was better off for it, but since S5 it's started pandering to fans who really just want to see favourite characters, and HBO who need the main actors to have enough screen time. Most obvious example is the better forgotten butchering of all things Dornish / Jaime and Bronn's trip south. Yes it's a huge task to write this incredibly in depth world for TV, as Martin himself is clearly struggling to conclude everything within two mammoth books so the writers for the show are up against it trying to wrap this up in 7 more episodes.
And then you have the issues with internal consistency in this season. In order for readers/watchers to accept and enjoy all the fantasy elements like dragons and wights, you need the world to have some kind of internal logic that people can understand and by which the world and everything in it adheres to. Gendry's run through snowy territory he'd only just seen for the first time, the raven's light speed flight back to Dragonstone and Dany's return flight; these things jar some viewers because since the beginning of both books and show we've had realistic expectations of travel time throughout the world.
This is fan service mostly now, and the fact that Gendry's never seen snow, let alone run in it, or how fast ravens can fly won't matter to some people who enjoyed Dany coming through on a big dragon and f**king sh*t up. But for people who feel invested in the ASOIAF world and have been so excited for so long to see how this concludes, it may all feel a little shallow and rushed.
TL:DR no I don't think it's the best TV show ever let alone the greatest work of fiction, but it sure does look pretty !
That being said, I still thoroughly enjoy it - I just hope to all the gods that the remaining books are completely different.
I think GRRM has actually finished the books and is waiting for the show to finish so he can spring a completely different ending on everyone.
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