It got progressively worse. By the end it felt like a completely different show. Season 8 was fecking awful.
The only hope now is the books are finally finished and maybe in 10/15 years they do a near faithful TV reboot.
That's an understatement. I waited 8 yrs to see the Unsullied have a 300 type battle, 12000 unsullied vs 100000 dead, but instead I got a night vision battle with no infrared light. To top it off, they are equally trained on the short sword as the spear, so once they stopped momentum their back lines should have started to move forward hacking and slashing. Phuck Dan and Dave! They did hold the line like real Gs though.