Still Better Than The Walking Dead

The later seasons of Game of Thrones weren’t as good as the first ones. The writing got worse, the surprises stopped landing the way they used to, the whole thing became about spectacle instead of actual stakes. I made peace with it eventually. Shows fall apart all the time—most of them do if you give them long enough.

At least it never became The Walking Dead. AMC took a genuinely unsettling show and just let it calcify into this shambling corpse that nobody wanted to watch but everyone kept watching anyway. Game of Thrones at least had the decency to stumble and fall instead of just groaning forward forever.

When the new trailer dropped, I watched it more out of habit than expectation. The characters are scattered now, all doing their separate things. Sansa’s finally becoming something other than a pawn, which is the only plot thread that’s actually made sense in years. Cersei’s still consumed with revenge, which at least stays true to character. Arya’s gone so deep into her assassin fantasy that she doesn’t feel like a real person anymore.

I’ll watch the new season when it airs. Too much time invested to quit now, and there’s always the slim chance they actually pull off an ending that works. Probably won’t happen, but you watch anyway.