Game of Thrones has run awry

If there is one TV series every episode of which I watched with my eyes wide open and my breath held, it’s Game of Thrones. It’s really different from all other phantasy sagas that just seem to pile up a standard set of good and evil characters and predictable events dressed in opulent clothes of the genre. I fell in love with it from the first season. I could really see the heroes LIVE, feel and act like people, not cardboard figures. There was a good amount of psychology in their behavior. And a good amount of probability theory in the story. I bet you were surprised and frustrated, too, when your favorite characters kept dying one by one without anyone lending a helping hand just seconds before the inevitable! Seeing the mean cunning Lannisters triumph was unbearable! Yet that was exactly the thing that kept us glued to the screen. As much as I craved for revenge and justice, it felt like a major cooler to see Sansa and Greyjoy survive a crazy fall from a huge height to be hunted and rescued again, this time by several feet of a woman rather than snow. And it felt like a bucket of icy water to see the Knights of the Vale appear on the battlefield just in time to prevent John’s devastating and logical defeat. Turns like those kept multiplying in season 7 which was all about last minute rescues and ungrounded plot triggers. And that affair between John Snow and Daenerys Targaryen, oh please! There is not an atom of chemistry between them. I hope season 8 will be more like the good old Game of Thrones we knew when it all just started! For now, we can only guess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6EiioKyGnk.