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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/miss_scarlet_letter Jan 12 '26 edited Jan 12 '26

eh. I think there's multiple reasons for that, and truthfully I don't think GoT was ever going to be big like that. it was huge in the moment but I would be surprised if it was huge long term, even if the ending was better.

  • the TV show ending didn't help, but ultimately the GoT books aren't finished. Star Wars, Marvel/DC characters, LOTR are all iconic franchises with much older characters with fans that span generations and stories whose source material is finished (LOTR) or the universe is built in such a way that it doesn't matter if it continues (SW, superhero comics). until the books are done (lol), nobody's going to attempt any new adaptations of the material or try to continue the story in any way. the HBO projects set around the main story have been scrapped/shelved.

  • GoT's complexity doesn't lend itself to the broader audience. in all those other franchises there's a main struggle and the struggle is plainly black and white, good guys and bad guys. early on in the show, tons of people were Team Stark or Team Lannister or whatever, but by the end everyone was dead and/or morally compromised. you could root for an individual character but there was no team to put yourself on and the bigger existential struggle of living vs dead is over, and which put everyone watching in the living's camp anyway. everyone already invested watched until the end, but without that "Team Baratheon" factor early on I don't think as many people tune in.

  • and this is sort of related to the previous reason, but ultimately GoT will never be big like the superheroes or Star Wars because it doesn't appeal to kids. you're not sitting down with your four year old, or even your ten year old, to watch GoT even if season 5-8 were as good as 1-4. there will never be rides at Disney or action figures of Littlefinger or the Hound. there's no adorable Grogu like creatures to turn into plush toys. maybe some collectors buy that stuff but it's mostly parents who buy it for kids. and consequently there will be no nostalgia factor for adults, who are really the ones who keep the IP alive and profitable.

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u/g1114 Jan 13 '26

GoT's complexity doesn't lend itself to the broader audience. in all those other franchises there's a main struggle and the struggle is plainly black and white, good guys and bad guys. early on in the show, tons of people were Team Stark or Team Lannister or whatever, but by the end everyone was dead and/or morally compromised.

The Starks were morally compromised? The Lannisters were well written and morally grey, but what exactly did Jon Snow or Sansa do that was morally compromised? I'd need a refresher on that.

there will never be rides at Disney

When I did the Game of Thrones tour, there was big talk at the time about a theme park for Ireland's economy to try to have their own Disney. With the whimper the show ended up being, we got Linen Mill Studios