How Game of Thrones Remains Hamstrung by Season 8's Finale

Game of Thrones and Star Wars have faced strikingly similar problems: both were damaged by widely disliked climaxes, but their recoveries have differed. Game of Thrones' Season 8 is still remembered as one of the biggest failures in television, following seven earlier runs hailed as masterpieces; the final episodes exhausted George R.R.

Martin's source material, and the author had stopped being directly consulted years earlier. Star Wars suffered its own backlash from the sequel trilogy, yet has begun to rebuild. Disney+ shows such as The Mandalorian & Grogu kept the franchise alive by focusing on earlier periods and largely avoiding the sequels, while upcoming films are finally addressing the post-sequel era directly: 2027's Star Wars: Starfighter is set roughly five years after The Rise of Skywalker, and Daisy Ridley will reprise Rey in New Jedi Order, expected to take place about 15 years after the trilogy.

That difference largely explains why Game of Thrones can't do what Star Wars is doing.

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