Sorry Nate, but your scenes in season 1 are just boring and cringe.
They're better in later seasons. But Shiv and Nate flirting while campaign strategizing in season 1 is just unbearable and has little impact on the rest of the series.
Unlike the other actors, I haven't seen him in anything really since Mad Men...
Let's pretend that we live in an alternate universe where Winds and Dream do not/will never exist (not so far off from our own reality...) and George's intended ending of the series is the ending of Dance that we currently have. No sample chapters, no TV show, just these 5 books, beginning with the Stark children finding the dire wolves and ending with Daenerys and Drogon on the Dothraki sea.
An abrupt, disappointing ending no doubt, with countless plot threads unresolved and no real sense of conclusion or satisfaction.
How would you feel? What would be your interpretation of the ending/series? Does it conclude satisfyingly, in any way at all? Does it thematically fall in line with the unpredictable, meandering nature of the series?