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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 8796949" data-attributes="member: 11760">For the love of god, please stop trying to tell people what they like and don't like.It's inaccurate at best, insulting at worst, and most importantly, wrong.You, in particular [USER=59082]@Mercurius[/USER], are smarter and capable of more discernment than this.Yes, I should be more accurately criticizing the showrunners' rather than GRRM, for the most part, but the notion that genre or "history" compels them to have either any of the events in this dragon-and-zombies show or to depict them the way they are, rather than those being authorial (here meaning anyone who creates, including showrunners, as it seems "authorial" is throwing some of the posters here) choices is extremely silly.A largely overlapping crew of (almost entirely male) folks made plenty of bad decisions in the later seasons of Game of Thrones (and were criticized throughout the run for many of these same issues). The notion that they're now somehow immune to criticism is weird, especially since they're capable of heights that, say, Wheel of Time has no hopes of reaching.If they've produced everything from A+ to F material (it's hard to give "we should put Bran on the throne because something something best story" a passing grade), it's fair to ask them to aim higher than C- material, which we've had plenty of this season.</blockquote>