yall tripping with all this nitpicking
A show on this level, that's pretty much already been handed the GOAT title, should absolutely be nitpicked. This isn't Twilight for little teenage girls, this shyt singlehandedly raised the bar for what TV as a platform can and will now be expected to do. The thing is what initially made this show great was the human interactions, i.e. the dialogue and the political oneupsmanship. The battles and the CGI just put it over the top. So for them to be coming up on the endgame and losing sight of the importance of plot and dialogue (which has still been solid but nowhere near this show's peak) is very disappointing.
The whole "let's gather up 12 men and go capture 1 wight to convince a woman with no army to join us, even though we all know she is gona try and kill us all anyway," is one of the worst storylines I can remember in any good to great show or movie I've watched.
Meanwhile all this time they have tens of thousands of soldiers in the north and 100,000 dothraki right there in Dragonstone with them. The plotholes are so rampant I don't have the time right now to address it from every angle, but just a few ideas that would've made more sense for them AND made for a better story. March with 100,000 dothraki and the 3 dragons and take King's Landing. She has no army and Jaime even admitted they can't win. They didn't want to march all of their troops north because they feared Cersei (and a couple thousand sellswords I guess) would take their castles in the meantime. This wipes Cersei out so that clears up those fears, and leaves half of episode 6 and all of episode 7 to deal with an even more epic faceoff with the Walkers/the Night King than Hardhome was. There are other holes but I don't have time to address them all. Still an enjoyable episode and season, just not as solid as I'd hoped.