Game Of Thrones: 10 Things That Would Have Fixed Season 8

8. Acknowledge The Narrative Threads You Don’t Need

Ok, so, if you’re not going to roll your sleeves up and get involved with any of those storylines, you can’t just assume that your audience will just forget about them. This is a show that has encouraged its fanbase, for over a decade, to speculate and theorise about what’s going on in the world.

Even if something no longer serves any real narrative purpose, it’s poor writing to merely throw it away unresolved. A quick scene here, a throwaway line of dialogue there, something to just tap your viewers on the head and say ‘yes, there you are, that’s what’s happening with that’.

It not only helps flesh out the story, but also adds extra dimensions to your characters. Cersei becomes far more relevant to the coming conflict if we see her actually ruling in King’s Landing, Tyrion’s moralising feels more impactful if we see how it’s with both his head and his heart, and there’s actually a point to Arya and the Hound being in King’s Landing if we’re given some insight into the journey.