There was at least one big action sequence in every episode, even when the show had to completely strain credulity to shoehorn one in. You could really tell all involved knew it was a problem. Game of Thrones tried a few ways to get around this problem. They’re so focused on setting up the endgame that they forget to tell interesting or coherent stories in their own right, which leads to the feeling that everything is just sorta happening to reach a preordained conclusion. Winner: me, for calling how ultimately inconsequential this season wasīefore season seven began, I wrote a piece about just how hard it is for penultimate seasons of serialized dramas to pull off their story arcs. So with that in mind, here’s a supersize winners and losers, with nine winners and 10 losers from the seventh season finale. A finale should always leave you wanting more, but ideally not like this. Right when things should be revving up, the show is going away. But overall, the episode left me a little listless. Yes, there was good stuff sprinkled throughout, and I dug how the first two-thirds (set at an elaborate meeting featuring almost all of the major characters) felt like a really awkward corporate team-building retreat. The Game of Thrones finale’s 3 game-changing twists, explained
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