I'd say that much of it just felt a little contrived, for one. Dany's descent into madness(?) is fine as a plot point, and there was certainly some solid setup (as the writers took great pains to point out) over the past seasons, but the way it happened just felt kind of rushed and unsatisfying. She went from feeling a bit lonely and isolated in episode 4 to full out mass murdering tyrant in episode 5. It was a bit jarring. Yes, she lost Missandei and Rhaegal in between, but the leap from that to blowing thousands of innocents to bits (and preparing to do the same to millions more) isn't a small one. There's Bran too, whose whole 3ER journey had basically no relevance to anything? Except for maybe contributing a bit to Dany's paranoia? And somehow he ends up on the throne because Tyrion says he has a great story, and all the important lords agree, I guess. His whole schtick has been that he's no longer of this world, that he's a man out of time, that he's no longer Bran etc, and now all of the sudden, with absolutely no setup whatsoever, he's placed in and gladly accepts the most temporal position imaginable, as "Bran the Broken". There are other more micro-level gripes, like how in the Battle of Winterfell, everybody was on the edge of getting overrun and dying... until they weren't, and Bran apparently just taking an unexplained joyride in his ravens, etc. That being said, I don't think the season was a disaster, and all the people crying and giving it 1/10s on IMDB are being stupid. It was fine, if ultimately unsatisfying, and even though much of it doesn't really stand up to much thought. Also, "The Bells" was visually stunning, and I greatly enjoyed it, deeper plot considerations aside.

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It broke years of character development. The characters weren't acting like they usually would and made dumb decisions and said dumb things. It was rushed.