Eh, I was....you know....fine....with it. Assuming this is where the books end up, I'm perfectly fine with the end point, provided that we get there in a manner that feels earned. Ultimately, that's the biggest problem with these last couple of seasons: they don't earn their big plot moments. Stuff happens because "Look, you'll just have to take our word for it."
And yeah, that's lazy writing insofar as HBO was willing to write a blank check to play this out as long as the showrunners wanted, and the showrunners said "Nah. We're ready to be done." So, they rushed the ending, jumped to conclusions they hadn't built up a solid enough foundation for, and washed their hands of it.
I think Tyrion's speech to Jon about why Dany had to get got was probably the best example of this. Yes, Dany murdered a lot of bad people. Yes, we cheered her for that. But (1) that's a far cry from slaughtering thousands of innocent people, and (2) the show repeatedly portrayed her acts as righteous badass retribution and now wants to scold us for it.
In the books, you can sort of get away with this, because the chapters are from the characters' perspectives. So, Dany's chapters are written from Dany's point of view even if they're written with a 3rd person narrator. Thus, what we get is Dany's perception of the world, rather than impartial truth. Therefore, when Mirri Maz Dhurri (whoever the woman was who made Khal Drogo a vegetable) was burned, the book portrayed it as righteous, as deserved, etc. And we buy it because it's Dany's perspective that we're seeing. But the show doesn't do that -- the show's depiction is meant to be the actual truth. When Dany does some badass thing and the show makes a big deal of how badass it is, and we cheer it, that's because the show tells us to. It doesn't depict people with looks of horror on their face or with tragic music, or anything to suggest "THIS IS A BAD THING SHE'S DONE." And it's not like the show doesn't know how to do that, either. The Red Wedding is a perfect example. The whole thing is shot, scored, and played tragically. But not for Dany, who gets triumphant music, badass shot framing, and no indication of "Er....are we really ok with this? Maybe we shouldn't be..."
It would be like watching some Schwarzenegger action movie, and at the end of it, after he's rattled off quip after quip, we get some sequence of him firing a rocket launcher at a bus full of kids being held hostage by the big bad guy, and then being court-martialed for committing atrocities and we're told "Well, look at how brutal he was with all the henchman. We should've seen this coming, and we're bad people for applauding his brutality and bloodthirstiness."
