@Ice_Ice_Brady I know they ran out of GRRM’s source material, but I’m not a big enough nerd to have researched when that happened. Seems to me it must have happened sometime around S7 upon rewatch. The editing in S6 started to become really bad. The Faith Militant dude who got his head ripped off by the Mountain holding both hands on the Mountain’s forearms BEFORE dropping his sword with one hand (should have been the other way around), Jon’s sword flopping around when he jumped on his horse to save Rickon, etc. The writing joined it in S7.
I would have focused S7 on Danaerys retaking the Iron Throne instead of wasting time at Dragonstone. Cersei dies, Jaime dies. In the North, they would have mined Dragonglass, prepped for the Great War, and focused on the politics of reuniting the North. Littlefinger still dies when his game of pitting the Starks against each other still fails. By the end of S7, Danaerys, now Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, meets the North and learns of the Night King, the Great War. Write your other characters (like the Hound) around that.
S8 is now a more natural end to the show. Instead of Dani losing her mind, she dies in the Great War. Jon, now that his true lineage is public knowledge, assumes the Iron Throne.
