How Avengers: Endgame Delivered A Satisfying Ending (But Game Of Thrones Failed)

How Endgame Delivered: Avengers: Endgame is the second half of a two-movie conclusion with Avengers: Infinity War, and the two films together delivered a grand story that not only satisfactorily concluded major arcs, but it did so at a respectable pace that didn't feel rushed.

Because of this, the resolution of Endgame was earned. If the story of these movies was crammed into just one two-and-a-half-hour movie, it would have failed miserably. Time was spent getting characters to their endpoints in ways that made sense, and it didn't rush through major parts of the story just to get it over with, unlike Game of Thrones.

How Thrones Failed: When viewing season 8 as a whole, it becomes abundantly clear that David Benioff and D.B. Weiss just wanted to be done with it, so they crammed all the story they had left into six episodes, which hurt the story really badly.

The White Walkers being defeated in one episode, Jon's parentage reveal not being that big of a deal, Daenerys going Mad Queen without properly demonstrating how she got there, Jaime and Cersei's demise, and Daenerys's death at the hands of Jon...all of these were victims of the rush to finish the series, and they were not nearly as impactful as they should have been.

Everything that happens in season 8 could have been explored in two full 10-episode seasons, and it would have been a more satisfying way to tell this story, because doing it in six episodes just didn't cut it.

The rushed storytelling is something that also plagued season 7, because that season was similarly rushed and under-cooked to get us to season 8, which itself was under-cooked just so the writers could be done with this and head off to Star Wars. Great.