And I'm feeling the opposite after starting to rewatch from Season 1. I'm seeing more evidence of bad writing negating earlier development.
Perception and opinion are fun like that.
I do see more this time around of other "foreshadowing" and other characters developments/arcs etc. being hinted at from Season 1-2 that DID play out. But I'm also seeing more evidence of what got tossed aside/ignored entirely.
Having said that - I am one of the "its not that dany burned the city - its that the setup was rushed and thus, fails due to bad writing/decision making in Season 8." And not saying "Dany's shift makes no sense at all."
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And the best, prime, example of bad plot device-writing - the Scorpions. They didn't even FIRE?! They weren't even MANNED?! Like two ships took potshots at Drogon from the first fly-in over the ships - and then... no one else ever did. There were unburned Scorpions in /tons/ of the shots - sitting there, still as death. Not turning, not firing, just sitting as if they were just statues.
At the very least we should have had myriads of shots flying wild and missing. We should have seen them attempting to turn and fire. We should have seen giant arrows falling short and flying wild. ANYTHING.
But no - Drogon fires a single line of ships, out of an entire fleet, and apparently every other ships' personnel were all struck with +100 dragon fear and could do nothing but wait to burn. Same with whomever was manning the dozens to hundreds of crossbows on the wall. Just abandoned at the beginning of the fight, because they certainly weren't moving in any of the shots.
"Worst Writing Ever"
I can defend some of the rest of it. But that, to me, shows me how little thought or care these guys bothered to put into this last season.