Game Of Thrones Season 8 Suckage

The battle of Winterfell was pretty great.*

But is it just me, or has everything else sucked?

Spoilers under the fold

The giant--apparently magical--crossbows of killing were kind of the last straw IMO.

They wrecked a dragon in midair and at altitude with their first shot? And their first three shots? And they can reload those giant mofos in like half a second? And nobody saw the fleet? 

And Jon and Danaeris's whole army is like two dozen unsullied? 

And they're all standing there apparently within range of the giant apparently magical crossbows of killing? Which...I guess are everywhere now. But why not? They're like M777s or something. 

This season could have sucked a little less if not for having fewer episodes, leading to them having to frantically cram everything in. (The food is awful...and such small portions...)

Though one thing that's consistently sucked: the underutilization of the dire wolves. Completely wasted super-cool narrative resource. 

Anyway. I'm not sure I've ever seen a show drop so far from one season to the next. And didn't they have like two years or something between seasons 7 and 8? Or did it just seem like two years? Meh, actually there were some pretty bad parts of the last season, too, come to remember...

Anyway...I'm kinda dreading the final few episodes...and not in the way the writers might have hoped.

*Though...why put your trebuchets outside the walls? And why send your fire-sword-wielding Dothraki cavalry off to get slaughtered...and, presumably, resurrected to fight against you...like that? Shouldn't they have attacked from a flank or something when the army of the dead came into contact with the good guys? Not that I have any idea would be good tactics in such a situation, obviously... Especially given those also-thermonuclear ice spears...