It was mocked in jay and silent bob strike back. The type of the people that mock it also have intense opinions on races from Star Wars. eff em.
I think the entire problem with so many of the things in game of thrones is that they felt a need to make things have a nice bow on them, it suggests that there is an “end of history” in a world that big you won’t know what will happen in the future, everything fundamentally cannot be resolved, so the more they tried to fight that the worse it was.