Short answer. Yes. A finale can ruin a show. Just like having a loving happy marriage that ends in messy abuse and cheating and ruin a relationship because they really were that monster all along. As humans, recency bias definitely plays an effect but it also attached things to our memories. Atlanta Falcons fans don't fondly look on that super bowl a couple years ago as a good one. They think it was absolutely horrible because of the 4th quarter collapse. meant nothing.
They were both utter, utter failures. Dexter’s is at least easier to laugh about because of how bananas it was and how far it had already fallen. S4 is probably the only one I would go back to on its own at this point. I showed someone the series up to that point maybe a year ago and I had forgotten just how much better it was than two or three.
He looks like every dude who moves to LA from the midwest and wears shorts just to flex about how it's not "really" cold here with his parka
Daenerys Was Always A Narcissistic, Power-Hungry Colonizer not a meme (love the memes tho, just don't wanna ruin anyone's meme enjoyment by expecting that), but a great analysis of what I've been trying to say for years about Dany
Post this again so I can like it twice. They absolutely nail how this has always been who she was without downplaying how much the writers played into her as a hero at the expense of the viewers and the story.
I read up on David Benioff a bunch today and everything that I read made me like him less. To be honest, I liked him mainly on the strength of his book City of Thieves, but did remember thinking it was cool that he wrote the screenplay for his own novel 25th Hour back in like 2002 and then landed the gig writing Troy for Wolfgang Petersen.