Yup. Westeros is a corrupt system (what's in a name?) and needs to be destroyed. Even IF they had managed to somehow pull off Dany seeing that and going apeshit, in the context of the show (and it being television) such a literary theme doesn't work, and we needed the visual version of it with our glorious villain (NK) making it all the way to the end, only to get ninja'd then, leaving a, and I fucking quote. "Bittersweet" ending.
It is such a frustrating series of decisions to look back on.
That said, at least we got Miguel Sapochnik's superior take on some of it, because without that it would be worse. Hell, I think Arya killing NK is actually a good decision, but the 'surprise you' to the viewer is immediately followed by a 'fuck you' by having that the end of all of it, and just the temporary defeat. One of the white walkers should have taken over the horde right after that, with the rules of "magic" having changed, or something like that. But to go full 'shoot the core!' and then just proceed with some clear bullshit is just... urgh.
Within television as a medium, they were always going to be the endgame (look at the soundtrack, and the very first scene of the series), but then *nope*.
Blergh, whatever. It's done. Leave it up to better people to make a topical relevant comparison of a corrupt world having to deal with global warming.
(so the worst part here is that they could have made something for the ages, literally...)
