I definitely have GoTFatigue.
I can’t invest emotionally in any character.
They always die before their time.
If America was like GoT we’d all be dead by now.
In real life everybody dies.
If you're upset because it just happened in the TV series, just imagine the emotional investment of people like me and myriads of others who have read all of the books covering THOUSANDS OF PAGES. It was a bitter pill to swallow when Martin killed off John Snow, one of the few "good guys" left... this on top of killing off Brieanne of Tarth; it was devastating. At that point I almost gave up on the story/books because "what's the point" of continuing (nearly everyone I care about, Martin kills)? And just think of all of the other characters the readers grew to genuinely care about that Martin has killed off! With John Snow's demise it was like the "straw that broke the camel's back". That said, I will probably still read the next installments IF Martin stays alive long enough to complete writing the books. At the rate he is going between writing the books ether he will die or his readers could before the books story is completed. However, will there even be ANY characters the readers even care about left to warrant reading them? Who knows, maybe John Snow will make a miraculous recovery... However, IF that happens would he still be the same man the readers like and care about?
Sadly, thus far the one word that best sums up the entire GOT series for me is: "depressing"; and that is not a good motive for continuing to read GOT, but we shall see.
Of course this was the same episode with the HORRIFIC event of Princess Shireen Baratheon being burned at the stake (for what reason??).
Tonight's episode was such a downer. We saw the very mortal, dirty and disheveled Daenerys wandering around in the middle of nowhere, in search of more food for her ailing dragon. I assumed she flew off to find the two other dragons, and they would all return to Meereen to enact 'peace through strength'.
The Stannis / Winterfell battle was a big ho-hum, and we didn't even see Brienne of Tarth kill Stannis, no drama there, after investing SO much time with Stannis and his plans, all the drama with Melisandre, his wife, daughter, etc.
Sansa wants to kill herself, Arya appears to be blinded (hopefully temporarily), Cersei does the Walk of Shame (I shed no tears there), and then we get the final, shocking scene with Jon Snow. I assumed Snow would be one of the last characters standing at the end of the series.
Maybe the final scene was just a nightmare that Jon Snow had, it didn't really happen. Yeah, that's it... that's the ticket...
When I first started reading this series, I recommended them to my husband with two caveats: Don't get attached to any character; and, never attend a wedding in Westeros.