The end of the season was a little bit of a letdown, not because it lacked quality but because it did not provide closure. But in many ways it was right in step with the vision of the shows creators.
Of course half of the appeal is what happens away from the show. Especially the fans, who are quickly supplanting game of thrones fans for douchebaggery. For a show about the world's self confessed smartest man watched by a group that thinks they are the world's smartest fans the entire McDonald's szchunan sauce situation was a classic troll. I went to a McDonald's and ordered those mediocre tenders and asked if they had the sauce and if looks could kill I would be getting embalming fluid pumped into me because that old lady had a look on her face that said she had heard that question just about enough