The creation of petitions to remake the season were obviously never going to succeed in that goal, but the broader aim to display the discontent with the season also feels somewhat overboard, especially when it received over a million signatures. On a basic level, there was a lot of anger and vitriol aimed at the creators in particular, and a lot of arguments online, that, as is so often the case, went beyond what's reasonable for discussion of a fictional TV show. Any art can and should be critcised, and it's equally as fine to like or dislike something, and there were plenty of valid complaints about the series, but also a lot that ended up going beyond that. While there were clear issues on a storytelling level, the backlash to Game of Thrones season 8 did get rather overblown. This wasn't Game of Thrones at its peak of seasons 3-4, but it wasn't its nadir either. The writing wasn't as strong, a continuation of the shift from the character-driven storytelling of seasons 1-4, when there were still full books to adapt, to the post-season 5 plot-driven narrative style. Euron Greyjoy was problematic, a swaggering, crude idiot who felt like he'd wandered in off the set of a different show, although that was another holdover from season 7, while the battle with the Night King and White Walkers was over too soon, a major casualty of the problems with pacing that plagued the season. The final episodes also largely wasted Cersei Lannister, giving one of its best characters a significantly reduced and more passive role. Almost all of the other issues within Game of Thrones season 8 can be traced back to that choice, and while the production was still huge, it's clear that both season 7 and season 8 would at the very least have benefited from more episodes, if not another season entirely.
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