George Martin clearly got bored with the Game of Thrones television show, so he chucked it over to the Hollywood writers to wrap it up. Sadly they don't seem competent for the task, because the fans are complaining mightily about the soap opera rush job that is the last season. The screenwriters seem tired of the whole thing, they're chucking it because they'd rather be writing Star Wars movies. At first I thought that they were ruining the last season on purpose because they felt the network wasn't paying them enough, but now I see they just don't have the imagination and writing skills to do this.Quote
I think its a bit unfair . They are good writers. The dialog is still quite good. Its just some of the plot paths the HBO writers chose don't seem to be the best decisions IMO. Thing is though, if it hadn't been preceded by 7 great seasons, people wouldn't be complaining they would say it was a good show.
I think the George RR martin collaboration with the HBO writers produced the best result. RR Martin wrote the plots and the events and the writers did a great job adapting them. But RR Martin lost interest in writing the books, and the HBO people had to write everything and so it was not as good as the previous bunch.
Also I heard a good writer once say the middle is easy its beginnings and endings that are hard.