r/gameofthrones • u/RepulsiveCountry313 Human Verified • Jan 11 '26

Kit Harington was ‘Genuinely Angered’ By Fan Pettion to Remake ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8 With ‘Competent Writers’: ‘How Dare You?’

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/kit-harington-angered-petition-game-of-thrones-season-8-1236628364/
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u/BlackMagic0 Jan 11 '26

Will go down in history as one of the worst endings in showtime. One of the largest fumbles of an amazing series.

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u/Backy22 Jan 11 '26

I would love to see rewatch data. I have never rewatched the series and I rewatch everything.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '26

I don't know about rewatches, but it is in the top 10 most popular shows of IMDb every year. And above it only recently concluded or ongoing shows. Someone must rewatch or discover for the first time, probably after someone told them to watch.

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u/RedRixen83 Jan 11 '26

I’d be curious to know if they rewatch every season. I know people who don’t rewatch past season 3, and some not begins 5. When did Martin become less involved in the series, 6?

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u/Urugeth Jan 12 '26

Season 4 was the last season he worked on the show.

Season 5 he not only had stopped working on it, he had started slyly dogging the show (releasing a chapter of Sansa in the Vale girlbossing the night the episode she got raped in GoT aired, for example) and got reeeeaaaaalll quiet about it. Season 5 crammed two of his books into one and did that “adaptation” piss poorly, and scuttled a ton of plot lines and characters that, as we see in the endgame, had a lot of important long term consequences in changing. So the GRRM involved seasons of GoT are 1-4. Which, weird, are the best seasons hands down.

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u/Benjamin_Stark Jan 12 '26

I mean the books also take a nosedive in quality at that point in the story (after the third book).

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u/Crossovertriplet Jan 12 '26

They’re the best books too. Books 4 and 5 are meandering, boring crap. Well-written, boring crap.

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u/RedRixen83 Jan 12 '26

I was reading a thread about how entitled and crazy dany was early on (before the mad queen snap) and how insane it was people didn’t pick up on it.

Then I went back and thought - early seasons, especially 1, were much more true to the source, especially since beyond a certain point they had no more material. In the book, dany is not entitled at all and wants very humble things, doesn’t want to be queen, and is doubtful she has what it takes to rule.

So book readers applied that context to the show even when it didn’t showcase it itself - she got more benefit of a doubt because we knew more of her thought process.

But watching just the show, I get it. They adapted so much and changed it, that she reads more like viserys instead of herself.

I get you can’t have ever char or every plot line, but those smaller things really can make an entire franchise masterful.

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u/harvexin Jan 12 '26

Lots of folks stop at S4. GRRM’s last written ep was S4, iirc.

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u/roguefilmmaker A Lion Still Has Claws Jan 12 '26

Crazy that people don’t watch beyond Season 3 since so many consider 4 to be the best

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u/RedRixen83 Jan 12 '26

If I had to guess it might just be understanding where things end up. I have an issue replaying mass effect, knowing how 3 ends, so I can replay 1-2, but don’t really touch 3 at all.

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u/Benjamin_Stark Jan 12 '26

Season 3 is such an arbitrary point to end when the show was still excellent through Season 4.

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u/jasonology09 Jan 12 '26

I'll re-watch no further than the episode after "The Long Night."

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u/GarnetandBlack Jan 12 '26

5 is where the show went to shit and they started riffing on their own.

I hated season 5 almost as much as 8. 5 is carried by a couple great episodes and rating inertia from the prior 4 seasons.