It’s difficult as I have read the books. I hoped we would learn more about who the White Walkers are and what they’re about. I hoped the White Walkers would get further south and the southern realms would be forced to confront the real danger and see how petty and irrelevant their squabbles for power are. The whole build up of the three/one prophecies of TPTWP, The Last Hero and Azor Ahai seem to be for nothing. If I hadn’t read the books, Arya defeating the White Walker as she did would have seemed perfect. Having read the books, it just seems a little ehhhh? What’s the point in Jon and Daenerys? I wish I’d started reading the books after the whole show was finished instead of starting them after watching season one.