SPOILERS ** I'm not happy with what they have done to G.O.T. Season 8 ** SPOILERS

As if the title wasn't enough, if you are not up to speed on season 8 of Game of Thrones then you should get outta here!

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Like most people, I was so incredibly excited for the final season of Game of Thrones and was really hopeful that they were going to make it epic: Thus far I have been incredibly disappointed and I am one of the people out there that believes that episode 4 of Season 8 might actually be the worst episode of the entire franchise.

They deviated from the books quite a lot of out necessity in all of the seasons but at some point near the start of season 7 they didn't even have any source material to base the episodes on and while I am certain that RR Martin is helping them to a certain degree, these last episodes have just been so inconsistent, sloppy, and deviating from the rest of the series that I can't help but feel as though perhaps the series isn't as profitable as we might think. Perhaps they are trying to "wrap it up."

While there are many many many problems with Episode 4, I am going to focus on just a few that really irked me.

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2nd Dragon dispatched entirely too easily

Remember when having dragons not only inspired fear but also admiration and loyalty? Remember when they were considered an unstoppable force? Well now they don't really seem that way because we have now seen 2 of them taken down in a rather inconsistent-with-legend manner.

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So let me get this straight: Without even revealing his position, Euron is able to make use of a weapon he has never used before to strike a moving target in the air, a mile away from him, 3 times in a row? Bullshit! Then when Dany is flying on Drogon directly at them in the next scene, they go 0 for 20. Then Dany just runs away despite the fact that these super easy to reload giant crossbows are only on the front of the ships. Why not just hover behind them and roast the whole fleet? Urgh!

I understand they needed to level the playing field but they could have done it in a more practical manor. They didn't have to completely cut the balls off of the Dragons. What use do they have now since they are apparently very easy to dispatch?

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Why didn't Cersei just kill all of them at the city gate?

So Dany and Tyrion travel with a very small group of unsullied and a now useless dragon to have a meeting at the gates of King's Landing where Cersei could have easily just killed them all. Does she now all of a sudden concern herself with honor? She certainly hasn't been plagued with this crisis of conscious in the past.

Of course the SJW armies of the world are up in arms not with the fact that this scene doesn't make sense, but because one of the only remaining persons of color was executed while back in slave chains. I quite liked Missandei and didn't like to see her go either but come on!

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These fast-forward love stories are dumb

I think I speak for everyone when I say that I was much more satisfied with Brienne and Jaime having a professional and platonic relationship.

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In what is likely the most uncomfortable love scene in all of cinema history, Jaime and Brienne turn a drunken hookup into the shortest romance of the entire series. Then, when Jaime decides to take off, our extremely tough and admirable Brienne of Tarth is reduced to a sniveling sobbing mess which is a complete break from her character that we have grown to love over the years.

To a much lessor degree, we have the Arya and Gendry love story end as quick as it began in this rather dumb and forced romance. Let's forget the fact that when Gendry last saw Arya she was a child pretending to be a boy.

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Euron Greyjoy is OP as fuck

In just a short amount of time he has become unstoppable. He just happens to be exactly where he needs to be all the time with no explanation as to how he got there and why he knew to be there. He has, in a just a few appearances, caused as much damage to the "good guys" as the Night King did over the entire series.

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I don't mind Cersei having some power on her side, but this guy came out of nowhere from a group of people generally regarded as a non-issue as far as overall power of Westeros is concerned and now he is unstoppable. There is no timeline here! He also seems to fast travel all over the planet with no regard paid to how long it would take to get from one place to the next.

My prediction: A showdown with Jaime that results in both of their deaths - perhaps with Brienne intervening at the last minute.

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tl;dr / conclusion

There are many more things that I could gripe about here but these are the main ones. The producers said this season was going to be shorter because they didn't have enough material and if that is the case, why are they shoving an entire season's worth of events into two episodes? These could have easily been several episodes for each event (The Battle of Winterfell and whatever the hell we call what happened in EP 4.) The dragons being taken out of the equation is just dumb seeing as how pretty much the entire Game of Thrones series has revolved around them (Where are muh DRAGONSSSS?)

So now we have only 2 episodes left before it is all done. I can't help but feel as though we have been "Last Jedi'd" here. This completely breaks with what we have seen up until now and I also feel as though Daenerys being the eventual reincarnation of the Mad King is being telegraphed entirely too much.

I hope they can wrap this up in style but I believe that this series is going down the road of a sloppy finish.