Coming in April 2019

It looks like we will have to wait another 15 months before we see the final season of Game of Thrones.  Maisie Williams told the Metro:

We wrap in December and we air our first episode in April [2019]. That’s a four-month turnaround for these huge episodes. There’s a lot that goes into the final edit. You would not want to rush this season at all. We owe it to our audience and our fans to really do this final season to the best of our abilities. Article.

Wonderful.  Hopefully the writers actually took advantage of the extra time to create a more coherent plot.  I watched Season 6 several times but haven't even looked at Season 7 once it ended.  Too many plot holes and the so-called big scenes at the end of the season were somewhat underwhelming.  Writers obviously ran out of source material and dumbed everything down. 


The ridiculous sortie above the Wall was obviously written to allow the Night King to get his hands on a dragon.  However, the credibility of the show was nearly put on ice by the gaping plot holes.  The books actually provided a plausible plot device, the Horn of Winter.  It would have been more believable if the Night King whipped out the Horn of Winter and brought down the Wall, opening the way for his invasion but that seemed to have escaped D&D's notice.  The writers also fell into the trap of making characters more important than the plot, the avoidance of which had made the series one of the more surprising and plot-twisting tv shows ever.  Tormund should have died in the battle with the Night King but nope, he just had to be saved.  Hopefully we are not going back to the days of where anyone who wears a red shirt should hide.  Then there is the whole incest thing with Dani and Jon. Ewww.  I'm still recovering from Godfather III twenty years ago, not to mention Jaime and Cersai. 

Oh, if you want to see a satire on Game of Thrones, watch this video.  Warning: Content is of a graphic, crude, and sexual nature but is all too true.