Kit Harington on ‘Game of Thrones’ Finale Backlash: ‘There Were Mistakes, We Were All Tired’
HBO’s highly anticipated eighth and final season Game of Thrones received harsh criticism for several creative choices, prompting backlash from creators David Benioff and DB Weiss. actor Kit HaringtonJon Snow, who plays Jon Snow in the hit fantasy drama, recently admitted that towards the end of production, the cast and crew were too tired to continue and it may have led to a “rushed ending”.
“I think if there was any fault with the end of the royal court, it’s that we were all so tired, we couldn’t go on. So I understand that some people thought it was rushed and I might agree with them. But I’m not sure there was any alternative,” he told British GQ in a recent interview. The actor mentioned that working on the show for a decade has left him empty too. “I look at pictures of myself from that last season and I look tired. Seems spent to me. I didn’t have another season in me,” he added. The Jon Snow spinoff series I would like to see Keith reprises his role as saved.
The final season ended with a negative reaction from fans and critics. In response to the backlash the season received, the actor added, “Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I think mistakes were made, story-wise, maybe towards the end. I think there were some interesting choices that didn’t quite work.”
Game of Thrones’ Jon Snow spinoff is no longer in the works. (Photo: IMDb)
Earlier this year, Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss broke up Their silence on the backlash and fan reactionHighlighting how the aggressively negative response affected them. “You always hope that everyone will like what you do, and it would be nice if 100 percent of people liked it, but they didn’t. “You can get so caught up in public opinion that you spend your whole life Googling and trying to find people who felt this way,” Benioff told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview in January.
The final episode of Game of Thrones, The Iron Throne, sparked a firestorm of controversy unprecedented in television history, overshadowed by the backlash surrounding the finale of The Sopranos and Lost. The overwhelming negative fan reaction was so intense that series creators Benioff and Weiss pulled out of a planned appearance at San Diego Comic-Con in 2019. In a show of defiance, over a million fans signed a petition demanding a complete rewrite of the poorly received eighth. season.
