People are dead on. You really can't fix it. There are some great ideas out there on where they should have gone, but largely it's not JUST a writing problem.
The writing is awful and it is a problem, but if you like seasons 6 and 7 then it probably won't be the writing that would have ruined it all for you.
There was a major problem with story plot payoff, that couldn't have been done properly in the time frame delivered. They attempted to do a check box scenario that lead to horribly cheesy and predictable outcomes just to try to give some resolution. You can't have 7 seasons of build up and end the major threat in a single episode... No amount of writing would have made this not seem awful.
Season 1 through 5 they had created the "rules" of the world, and season 6 through 8 seemed to almost go out of its way to breakdown those same rules.
As an example: travel in Westeros was difficult time consuming and dangerous. Seasons 6 through 8 stopped carring about that detail and travel become nothing but a single bit of dialog in the story.
The entire story is based on the "fog of war" meaning main characters could be within a stones throw, and they might never know each other was there. 6 through 8 is full of last second saves and heroic entrances that would make any 80's action movie blush.
The writing CAN be blamed for many of the beloved characters becoming boring plot devices. Tyrion, Little Finger, and Varys are the most obvious of these problems. The writers had no idea how to write these characters without the books.
Again this started happening in season 6 though.
I think you can squarely put character's complete heel turn to their charcter arcs in the last season on the writers as well. Jamie and Danerys are key examples of this. I think Danery's story was decided season's ago, but they waited too long to show the signs, so it came off as cheap and ineffective.
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