I AGREE. This season has been pretty boring. Hardly must see. I stream episodes when it is convenient for me. My fear is the author is running out of ideas and a plan to end the story. By far the worst season.
Well the TV writers are trying to catch up to GRRM, so I have no immediate fear that they will run out of ideas this season.
I will say that Martin has been working on the next book for a long time, it is apparently huge, there is no announced date of publication, and the next TV season will probably require that the book be out.
I think there is a chance that Martin actually has writer’s block and simply cannot complete the next book. That has happened before, to other writers.
Uh the author already wrote the books that are this season and they are great. Departures from the book are noticeably more lame. Sad to see major things not happening.
Of course they had to have Loras get arrested by the religious fanatics for buggery. So much is missing. The way Cersei gets caught was way better in the books.
The sand snakes look like they got 3 exotic dancers and told them to pretend they can fight.
However a good season. What they’ve done is replace minor book characters with major characters. In the books Sansa doesn’t get raped it’s a minor character.