>>181088The show runners were reportedly wanting to move on to other projects after like the 6th season, then they started making the two final seasons with fewer episodes because they were just done with it at that point
there are so many indicators that they just phoned it in in those last two seasons. fewer episodes, significant drops in dialogue quality, major plot holes established in just the last couple seasons alone, a fking starbucks cup being filmed. They probably needed another 2 seasons to tie everything together, but they don’t even have the creativity to do so.
The problems of the show are exacerbated significantly by GRRM not even being close to finishing the story (he probably never will) because he himself can’t tie up all of the loose ends.
I regret getting invested at all in GoT/asoiaf