An amazing conclusion to what I consider my favourite TV series of all times. Iv’e been following this show closely for years and it was pretty much the thing I anticipated the most every year, and the final season managed to take everything to the maximum with a stretch of 6 amazing feature length episodes that broke all the rules.We've seen it with the Sopranos. We've seen it with Seinfeld. We've seen it countless other times- if your show is popular enough and you give the audience an ending which is not the most conventional conclusion possible- or, god forbid, a little bit brave- you are going to get the heat. Say what you will about the final seasons, it's amazing the show started to really divide the fan base only in its very last season, that being it's eighth one- something that is ultimately unavoidable with something in that magnitude of popularity, that has so many characters and storylines for people to nit-pick from. It's expected some will be disappointed with the way elements of the story have concluded but I believe people went way overboard and overreacted with their negativity and scrutiny towards these final episodes, something that originated heavily from being swept by the negative buzz on social media. I mean, once it became ‘fashionable’ to hate on the last season of the same show it was so trendy to love beforehand seems like people were just quick to join the latest trend without even giving it much of a real thought. It’s all fugazi. A lot of plot points that were deemed by a lot of people as "making no sense" from the characters perspective are, at least in my opinion, totally in line with their arcs on the show if you give a moments thought about it. I won’t even start talking about blogs posting misleading headlines about the cast “hating” the season just to support the narrative or disguising the team’s unprecedented achievements in Award shows for this very season as some misfires for the show-runners people love to talk dirt on so much these days.The show gets plenty of criticism for its deviations from the source material season 5 and onwards, but if you just think for a second how enormous this story is it's pretty easy to realise a lot needed to be altered to fit the TV medium, and David and Dan managed to do so while preserving the original essence of Martin's creation, keep the story well constructed and coherent and keep dozens of millions of viewers satisfied, and not only a handful of hard core followers that wanted it to be a page- to-page adaption of the novels. While I enjoyed all the books and didn't agree with a few of the changes they made for the show as well I can see why a lot had to be cut, things don't work the same in books as in television. Considering they knew the ending from the start and the huge amount of details you have to alter just from omitting one storyline if you want to reach the same final goal as the books, I believe it was overall for the best and they knew what they were doing, the story didn't collapse under their hands- at least as far as I'm concerned. In a show this popular, when it came to writing the ending to all these story arcs it seems nowadays a writer has two choices- giving the internet audience what they always wanted and predicted or just going with your vision and making a brave ending actually staying true to the show and it’s characters- which is exactly what David and Dan did. Though if you choose the latter option, be sure you are ready to take all the heat- and GoT is not merely the first example of that on television in the last couple of decades. I don't think there was anything as pop-culture as GoT in it's early seasons, and with the social media and internet meme-culture so present these days- this time this phenomenon was taken to heights never seen before.This season offered some of the best episodes or moments from the entire show in my opinion, with Miguel Sapochnik’s brilliant Battle of Winterfell episode and later “the Bells”, a penultimate episode better than anything I could have ever imagined. The many story arcs of the show came full circle in a beautiful manner, with either heartbreaking or uplifting conclusions to all these characters we’ve been following for years. Well, I do agree this season was a little bit rushed and could have used a couple more episodes, I’ll give you that. However, I still don’t think it was that noticeable or damaging to the story as a whole or the logics behind the characters’ motivations or actions. One more thing I’d like to mention is Ramin Djawadi, the composer of the show that has always been one of the best aspects of the show. He took everything to the maximum with the best soundtrack album out of the 8, wrapping everything up beautifully and as emotionally as possible.As I mentioned before, at least season got it’s recognition among the several award shows- more specifically, being the most Emmy Awarded final season of any show in the history of television. Game of Thrones was a legendary series I’ll go back to watching again and again, and I really hope new viewers in the future, away from the 2019 internet-buzz climate will approach this season with a more open mind and see this is exactly the ending this show deserved. At first I was really bothered it’s became so mainstream to trash my favorite show online for no concrete reason, but when I look back months later I think this is a side effect I can accept for having a real authentic ending to the show and not some mundane predictable fan fiction, tied up in a pretty bow.After re-watching the show for the first time after knowing how it concludes, the ending makes even more sense. All the arcs are building up beautifully towards the endgame, and it make you understand better some of the choices they made along the way, knowing where it all intended to go. It also makes you understand some of the characters better, and re-contextualizing a lot of things you thought while watching the show the first times around.As for the product- top notch HBO quality as always. The packaging looks amazing and the video/audio quality is spectacular. The Steelbooks looks great just as I expected. Highly recommended.