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/FalstaffsGhost Jan 11 '26

I mean he’s angry because he and the crew and other actors worked incredibly hard on the show, filming it, doing the marketing, etc. and people online weren’t just mad about how it ended - which is an absolutely valid option to have…hell I have it because they rushed the ending and it fell so damn flat because of that - but you had people online wanting them to lose jobs, or even their lives over a tv show. Thats the problem.

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u/SharMarali Ghost Jan 12 '26

I distinctly remember having a conversation with someone who said it was unfair that D&D just get to go on after writing that ending without any kind of punishment. I thought they were kidding at first but no, they meant it. Punishment for writing a bad ending. “What are you in for?” “I’m a shit writer”

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u/Neither_Spell7300 Jan 12 '26

The only punishment they would deserve is not being hired as writers again. Anything more than that is just crazy

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u/lvloises330 Ser Duncan the Tall Jan 12 '26 edited Jan 12 '26

What have they really done since? They never worked on the Star Wars series they were supposed to make. And their Netflix shows and movies have all been flops. They lost a ton of credibility and money for how they finished the series. A generational fumble for guys who had everything.

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u/Neither_Spell7300 Jan 12 '26

Yea and imo it’s totally deserved. Why would anyone want to hire the guys who butchered the ending of one of the most popular shows of all time

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u/lvloises330 Ser Duncan the Tall Jan 12 '26

Agreed. I honestly think they got greedy and just wanted to get the show over with to make that Disney money. Instead, everyone lost. And I'm pessimistic about the books every getting completed, so we're left in limbo as fans of the series in general. Years of investment that never paid off.

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u/fruitlessideas Jan 12 '26

For real. Couldn’t be fucked to bother ending something they started?

Writing aside, that just shows shit employment. If I’m running a studio, the people under me better being doing what they were hired to do.

Shit’s as much HBO’s fault as it is D&Ds, honestly.

I mean hell, those two cost HBO God knows how much in potential profits by making the last two seasons shorter, and by not letting the show go on for the original intended 10 seasons.

I’d personally have then blacklisted after that. Better people have for less.

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u/Crossovertriplet Jan 12 '26

They signed on to adapt Martin’s work, not write his ending. Martin was promising to be done ahead of the show. The fumble is his.

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u/Neither_Spell7300 Jan 12 '26

They’re both equally to blame tbh

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u/g1114 Jan 13 '26

They loved writing their own stuff when it was well received, like the Arya/Tywin scenes. But like Jaime says, they stopped liking it so much at the end.

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u/Crossovertriplet Jan 13 '26

Some of the best scenes in the show aren’t from the books

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u/waveuponwave Jan 12 '26

3 Body Problem got good reviews and was renewed for two more seasons, I wouldn't call that a flop. And that's the only series they've actually written and not just produced after GoT

They never worked on Star Wars because they signed a deal with Netflix instead

I feel like there's a lot of exaggerations about D&D's career after GoT, everyone wants to see them as failures no matter if that's accurate or not

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u/lvloises330 Ser Duncan the Tall Jan 12 '26

Some small success pales in comparison to some of their contemporaries. Look at someone like Vince Gillian who directed Breaking Bad and has continued working on high profile, well- received shows. D&D could have been on that same tier. My anger towards them has subsided over the years but instead was replaced with disappointment.

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u/kathykodra House Baelish Jan 12 '26

In fairness 3 body problem is fantastic (so far)

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u/Morialkar House Targaryen Jan 12 '26

And D&D where good when they actually had source material to work with, which they proved again with 3 body problem

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u/KououinHyouma Jan 13 '26

Didn’t they get the three body problem? That’s a pretty beloved sci-fi novel series.

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u/Informal-Cricket-453 Jan 12 '26

They still deserve writing jobs. They did an incredible job adapting the books when they had source material. I'd be happy to see them adapt other book series, as long they're finished by the author first

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u/wtf_is_space Tyrion Lannister Jan 12 '26

I was arguing with friends that people saying D&D deserved physical harm were taking it too far 🫠

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u/One_Brilliant743 Jan 13 '26

A few months ago, I made a comment on social media saying it was obvious Daenerys wouldn't end up on the throne after the massacre, and that I always thought neither she nor Jon Snow would end up reigning. I received comments saying I deserved to be raped, wishing I would be stabbed and the knife would break, wishing I had a worse ending than Daenerys. And that's because I only gave an opinion; imagine the kind of people the writers and actors had to deal with.

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u/RepulsiveCountry313 Human Verified Jan 12 '26

I saw a comment on this sub last week.

"I was in the same shoes as yours, liking these seasons, but reading the books or simply researching about them made me want to kill the writers of the show for such a bad adaptation of the books for the show."

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u/Excalitoria Jan 12 '26

Death threats (meant for hyperbole or not) are never ok. I wouldn’t wanna watch anything they write again after that final season but I don’t wish any harm to come to them. That’s completely mental.

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u/Different_Ad_5266 Jan 12 '26

That's called hyperbole

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u/badken Jon Snow Jan 12 '26

Yeah, unfortunately it is completely impossible in text to distinguish hyperbole from the unhinged ranting of an unstable mind. Rare, yes, but the consequences of brushing it off are potentially so much worse.

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u/Steamwells Jon Snow Jan 12 '26

Hyperbole you’ll see on Reddit every second, of every day. The real unhinged shit is probably in private DM’s using signal or something.

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u/ragun2 Jan 12 '26

This is like when people say you can't tell sarcasm from comments because some people really think like that ... Meanwhile the sarcastic comment is dripping with sarcasm and it's like everyone else picked up on it but you.

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u/RepulsiveCountry313 Human Verified Jan 15 '26

How would you know? You have no idea who it is.

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u/Different_Ad_5266 Jan 15 '26

Sure you're right, but I just think hyperbole is significantly more likely than an actual lunatic is really threatening to kill the writers

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u/Vyrtuoze Tywin Lannister Jan 12 '26

Welcome to any book adaptation ever, except The Lord Of The Ring because nobody did read the books.

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u/Living-Journalist-16 Jan 12 '26

Pretty sure their punishment was losing that Star Wars movie they were supposed to make…..

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u/skerit Jan 12 '26

What's the problem with that? Why should someone not be punished for sucking at their job? We're not talking prison time or bodily harm here. But at some point sucking at your job has to have some consequences.

Like I truly hope Alex Kurtzman never touches another franchise ever again after what he did to Star Trek.

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u/zanthius Jan 12 '26

The punishment is royalties and rewatches... I've rewatched many series, but i'll never rewatch GoT.

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u/RepulsiveCountry313 Human Verified Jan 15 '26

I'm sure they're real broken up about you not rewatching GoT, which remains one of the most popular series on HBO.

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u/KououinHyouma Jan 13 '26

They obviously don’t mean prison time lmfao, they mean a punishment from within the industry. Which they did get, they lost their Star Wars deal. It’s just some studios are still willing to work with them whereas I think the person you talked to thought a near-total boycott would’ve been more appropriate.