I had the same feeling but I couldn’t exactly articulate why. The blog post while long and pedantic is simply illuminating in detail why I didn’t like the show

I had the same feeling but I couldn’t exactly articulate why. The blog post while long and pedantic is simply illuminating in detail why I didn’t like the show either. He’s putting words to my vague reasons for dislike. This quote really nails it: "If the story itself doesn’t have to obey any real rules of cause and consequence and thus the creators can merely opt to have anything happen for any reason then there is no reason to invest in any of it at all. If there are no consistent rules to this world then nothing matters and if nothing matters… why should I care?" Fundamentally the show is sloppy work done by people that don’t know what good work looks like. They’re unable understand to root cause of their errors due to a type of Dunning Kruger effect. People that don’t know any of history, logistics, physics, politics, races, finance, or anything else of import often go into the arts. In other words, they go to work for Amazon writing TV shows. Or NetFlix, or Disney. Truly great works of fiction are written by authors who aren’t just writers. They have some other real world experience they draw on. Having lived through a war is a common one. Tolkien fought in WWI, for example. It turns out that English Lit alone is insufficient to write a multi-hundred-million dollar epic series in the same way that having only an MBA does not qualify someone to manage a deeply technical team working on cutting edge technology.