Thoughts on Game of Thrones Season 7 Finale

Frankly, I thought the Season 7 Finale of Game of Thrones was a little weak. The final episode of a Game of Thrones season is never the "craziest" episode. The really whacko stuff usually happens in the second to last (or penulitmate, as they say) episode. Even so, this episode just felt a little tepid. The dialogue was forced, nothing was as dramatic as it was "supposed" to be, and it seemed like they just had to tie up a bunch of plotlines in a hurry. Then, of course, there is the astonishingly un-sexy consummation of Danaerys and Jon Snow's "flirtation," in some ship cabin sex.

Here are my bullet-point thoughts on the episode:

• Euron Greyjoy. I called B.S. the moment Euron Greyjoy fled the King's Landing summit/conference in fear upon seeing one of the living dead. And I was right: it was a bluff. But my questions are: a.) How did Euron and Cersei plan for being shown one of the living dead? Did the guards look inside the box and tip them off? The viewers should have been clued-in to this, if so, and b.) Why was this bluff even necessary and, furthermore, why would anyone who knew anything about Euron Greyjoy believe it? 
• Generally Bad Dialogue. After the summit/conference with Cersei goes wrong, the Danaerys contingent have an argument that turns into a strategy session. Of all the scenes in Game of Thrones I've ever seen, the dialogue in this scene was the most forced and the most blatanly contrived to further the plot. They used to omit unnecessary dialogue like this and instead just show what would happen next. In fact, the writing on this whole season has been getting this way, and it's annoying. 
• Dany + Jon. The Danaerys-Jon Snow "romance" has seemed weird and forced from the very beginning. The actors who play them just have no screen chemistry, and the characters are too icy to ever hook up. But what are the writers to do? They have to have Jon Snow and Danaerys get together. Everyone has seen that coming from the moment they met. Black and White. The North and the South. Yada-yada-yada. But they could have at least tried to make this romance easier to accept through some clever writing, instead of forcing it to play out in a "natural" way which in my opinion just did not work. 
• Dany + Jon, Part II. How can anyone possibly be aghast at the "incest" being committed by these two. We're talking about a show which is built upon the premise (from early, early in Season 1) that a royal brother and sister are involved in a love affair that has produced three children. And an now some accidental incest between an Aunt and Nephew -- who are the same age and don't even know they're related -- is supposed to shock us? IDK. Maybe we're supposed to be concerned about the implications for the future, or something? I anticipate another really awkward (not just awkward in the show but awkwardly written and bad) scene in which Jon and Danaerys have to confront each other knowing the truth, making their on-screen relationship even more disastrously eye-roll worthy than it already is. Trust me, this scene is coming, and if the writers don't handle it well, it's going to play out like something from Seinfeld.
• Little Finger's Death. Mental Note: When writing a piece of Sci-Fi or Fantasy fiction, always remember to create a character (Brandon Stark) who has the power to see anything and everything that has ever happened. I'm kind of glad Little Finger got punished for his conniving ways, but sheesh...after all his back-room dealing, sneakiness, secret alliances, etc. all Arya and Sansa have to do is say, "Hey Bran, look back over the past five years and figure out how Little Finger's been f*cking with our heads," and the guy's whole life is flipped upside down? I think Little Finger deserved a better, or at least more complex, end than this. And what's up with the immediate execution? RIGHT THERE in the courtroom?