A bad "sweet" ending is not a bittersweet ending

One of the greatest aspects of GoT was it's realistic point of view. Good people don't always win and bad people don't always pay for their crimes. Even more for most of the world, good and bad are subjective, it's rare to see such thing as black and white, there's mostly grey.Circumstances, alliances, being in the part of those who win and write history can make a bad person look like a good one or vice-versa.

This aspect of the show became more and more less significant. The villains become more and more super-evil, Ramsay, Cersei, and finally Daenerys are dehumanized crazy brutal maniacs (compare that to Tywin's arc) ,in order to serve the simplistic idea of 'good vs evil'. And NK who was the only character with a solid reason to be that kind of a villain in the show, got easily shoved because they wanted to get done with it and move forward from GoT.

Εven this idea, good vs evil which is different than the first seasons perspective , can be entertaining if it is executed with consistency (Avengers is a good example ) and there was an obvious lack of it. Instead, the whitewalkers didn't last and there were not enough episodes in which Daenerys could have been better portrayed as a villain, though her being a pure evil one would still be a problem imo.

As the show kept going we've watched the showrunners choose a side. They're obviously big fans of the Stark family and the whole development of the series and especially the last season, is build on that perspective. Starks are 'good and honourable' and they 'deserve' a sweet ending. Bran could have been much more interesting as the 3-eyed raven treating people like checkers, seeking to manipulate them because he thinks he know what's right. Instead they chose to limit his character and make him look like a good-robot, there are only some vague implications of his motives and tactics. Arya is the greatest example of their being one-sided. There's nothing that was applied on Daenerys character that couldn't be applied to Arya's. They both have brutally killed people because these people were evil. They both have been ruthless. They both were looking for revenge and have extreme powers to achieve it. Yet, Daenerys gets the 'you're mad' plot while Arya is a hero. Sansa is also a good example of this kind of fanservice. She's rewarded despite doing absolutely nothing but sabotaging the defense -that the alliance with Daenerys provided- of her people against the whitewalkers threat. John is also rewarded actually, since him going north isn't a punishment according to his character arc, he had maybe his happiest moments there and is widely perceived as a hero. Compare this to the 'kingslayer' hatred that Jaime had received, despite the fact that Jaime actually managed to save the innocents before they got burned.

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The showrunners are also big fans of certain characters and the bad fanservice to themselves was more than obvious at the end.

Brienne, Davos, Podrick, i can't argue with how they were treated in the finale, at least they're characters were consistent. They're good from a to z and they get rewarded for it. A simple happy ending but i can take it

My main issue is with Tyrion who is obviously widely liked from the beginning of the series. The thing is he never took any responsibility for his actions. He didn't choose to be betrayed by his family so i'm obviously more than ok with him leaving Westeros. But he chose to be the hand of Daenerys and failed miserably. He chose to betray Varys and got him executed for a conspiracy attempt, that he made it possible to happen. And then he got 'convicted' to do what he loves the most. Talking about politics and drinking wine.

The ending which was supposed to be 'bittersweet' was actually 'sweet'. All the 'good characters' got what they wanted, and the 'bad ones' what they deserved. But that black and white approach didn't make any sense because that distinction had only took place into the showrunners 'this is my favourite character' heads, in a rushed way that didn't at least try to build up their perspective.

Trying to sum up what annoyed me the most about this season's writing- besides the cringe lines- and in order to explain the plotholes, it's simple as that. You can't be a fan-showrunner of the biggest tv series and not being at least commited to it, making a fan-service where you're the fan, into a rushed bad fan-service to yourself, and expect most of the people to like it