I think it's perfectly analogous to GoT. When a show relentlessly

...expands the scope of its internal mythology for season after season and then begins the process of trying to (relatively quickly) bring the story back to something focused less on mythology and more on the core characters in time for the end of the series, it's just extremely jarring for the hardcore fans.

If you spent years heavily investing in the idea that every cool little narrative detour that seemed to imply "SOMETHING BIGGER IS GOING ON HERE" was really going to pay off in a huge way in the end, then you're going to be disappointed. Because almost never are those things part of some master narrative plan. It's something awesome that the writers room came up with that enhanced the impact of the story they were telling at the time, and it cost them nothing to say to themselves, "We'll figure out how to pay that off later." That's how basically all TV shows get made.

With Lost it was all the million different mysteries of the island and the Others and the Dharma Initiative and the time travel and...just omg. And I don't regret caring about any of that stuff. I just have to kind of lol at ever thinking it was anything more than what it was (i.e. cool story).

With Game of Thrones it's not even really about Weiss and Benioff. They didn't come up with the White Walkers and the Night King and the Children and all that mystical stuff from north of the wall that never ended up amounting to anything crucial. That was Martin. And I don't regret it either because holy crap how cool were the S5/6 eps Hardhome and Hold the Door? WORTH IT ALL.

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