Tyrion on the Iron Throne is still there, but the rest...

The books spent a long time talking about the Long Night. Winter that lasted for years, decades, and how in the Long Night came the White Walkers, riding giant spiders. They were somehow linked to the Old Faith of the North, and the Children of the Forest, and everyone knew the Wall was needed to keep them out.

That was mystery and dread. The idea that winter would bring with it a darkness that could last for months, and in that darkness would come an evil so terrible people were willing to build a wall of ice 30 stories high to keep it out, something so strong they couldn't fight it, was already wiped away.

Winter is just...winter. In King's Landing it's not even snowy, just apparently barren in places now from I guess a lack of rain. The darkness isn't everywhere. The army of the dead came for...something, I guess Bran...but we never really know what the motives were, and the fatal flaw of "kill the leader and the rest die" makes the Arya death stab seem too easy. Why couldn't an earlier generation have done something similar, rather than build a giant wall? The sense of mystery is gone. The sense of dread is gone. The threat is gone.

Dany going evil was something anyone with a brain should have seen coming for some time now. She rides big fucking firebreathing dragons and engages in virtue signalling. But couldn't they have been more gradual about the shift? I mean, this is as plausible as Anakin chopping up kids after going to the opera with Palpatine.

And what's the deal with Rllhor or however the fuck you spell it?