Instead of an examination of her psyche, the Season 8 premiere showed us Jon riding a dragon and sharing a happy kiss with Dany by a frozen waterfall: two lovers that would have run away with each other in that moment if they didn't have to fight the Army of the Dead. Game of Thrones didn't have much time to dedicate to Daenerys' frame of mind in the final season. Martin always seemed more interested in how one rules after winning the great battle against their enemies, while event television is about displaying large, surprising moments. "Was Daenerys' turn satisfying?" will likely be the point that divides fans on this season for months, and maybe it will be the ultimate question to assess someone's feelings about Game of Thrones on the whole.
When we finally had to pivot back to what - we assume - will be the actual ending of A Song of Ice and Fire, it felt like a conclusion apart from the show we'd been watching since Season 5. "Daenerys from the book wouldn’t do that" is a valid argument only as much as it's a spin on "Daenerys hasn't done that yet in the books." As the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones moved towards its endgame, it became apparent that the show hadn't been pulling from George R.R. This is the weird part about Game of Thrones ending with such a divisive season: Because it's an adaptation of material that might one day exist, qualitative decisions about how "good" the television show is can get bogged down in fan-fiction debates over two unfinished novels.
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That's part of the reality of turning a novel into a TV show that becomes the most popular series on the small screen, but unlike other adaptations that are pulling from a finished work, Game of Thrones has to compete with two unwritten novels, and as long as those novels don’t exist, they can be better than the show in the realm of imagination. Corner characters from the novel's narrative, like Jon Snow and Daenerys, had end-points decided by Martin, but written by television writers who were just as concerned with making dragons look cool on screen than what each character was thinking from moment to moment.
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Characters like Sansa, Theon, and Brienne got full and satisfying arcs where their mettle was tested and their trials manifested as personal growth. It's been three whole seasons of television since the show drastically departed from the books, and in them we saw the development of our favorite characters switch pacing from a novelistic meandering to a "final big-budget season" rush to the finish line. With a few scant mile markers provided by Martin on the road to a conclusion, the writers of Game of Thrones had the doomed task of bringing this story to its conclusion for the first time, before Martin got to have his say in the world he created. The show, initially picked up as a "fantasy Sopranos" that had five novels to work with, eventually had to surpass the source material and make its own ending, for better or worse. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novel series. Joining the annals of event television in the sweet afterlife of shows that were not cancelled but got to end on their own terms is HBO's Game of Thrones, a loose adaptation of George R.R. With Season 8, episode 6, "The Iron Throne," our watch has ended.
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