and that paralleled the sentiment of the book readers.

While most will agree that Dany's time in Meereen served to strengthen the nature of her character, many (if not most) will also agree that her time there was also kind of a slog.

Speaking of which, you may already know this if you're a book reader but if you're not....

*** minor spoilers if you're a non-book reader but will someday become a book reader ***

For the non-book readers, Martin coined "The Meereenese Knot" as the very, very long time he spent untangling the many entities that needed to chronologically converge on Danaerys in Meereen. This included many new POV characters, the impending slavers war, Drogons return and a way to get Dany back to Westeros.

The sheer scope of "The Meereenese Knot" eventually led to Book 4 being split into two volumes: A Feast for Crows (focused mostly on King's Landing) and A Dance of Dragons (focused outside of KL, including Daenerys). To put this into perspective, books 1-3 were released in 1996, 1999 and 2000. Books 4 and 5 were released in 2005 and 2011 (and likely no book 6 in 2017).

And because books 4 and 5 added so many new characters and threads that weren't part of the first three books, they are also largely regarded as the weakest of the series (book 4 because it was missing beloved POV characters Jon, Tyrion and Daenerys and book 5 because it was so long they had to cut out two major battles to put into book 6).

So... yeah. The malaise the show watchers felt with Meereen mirrored the sentiment felt by book readers towards Meereen.

There's a very strong argument to be made that if Martin had kept Book 4's narrative as tight as the first 3, the written series would be done by now and D&D would have had a LOT more written material with which to guide the show. Much like with ASOIAF, GoT will likely end up being at its best when it followed the first three books than when it followed books 4, 5 and Martin's scribbles on how the story ends.