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Everyone was trying to figure out what the hell went so wrong with the last few seasons of thrones, but it’s really damn obvious in hindsight: the show turned blatantly feminist. The writers assassinated all of the male characters and elevated all of the female characters. The final council of surviving characters was a bunch of sassy girl bosses. Tyrion, Littlefinger, Varys, Jon, the Night King - all were figuratively castrated in service of the female characters.
To be fair, they assassinated their Girlboss Danny too at the end and just said "she went crazy at the last moment!" to end her entire show long character arc.
I think there were equal parts Feminism and literal incompetence at play for the last seasons.
Really it's more about the idea that starting a show with the premise of subverting (genre-name-here) means you can't tell a compelling (genre-name-here) story.
GOT/ASOIAF sets up this grand threat, which is kind of the core staple of heroic fantasy, but there's no way to finish the story in a compelling way except to actually have heroic characters rise to the challenge.