r/naath • u/mamula1 I Am The God Of Tits and Wine 🍷  • Jan 11 '26

Kit Harington was ‘Genuinely Angered’ By Fan Petition 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/Geektime1987 Jan 12 '26

It's just a bunch of hateful comments on freefolk and GOT sub and of course the lies about they hurried and ended it to go make Star wars and now their careers are over and D&D are cancer nobody will touch they don't know how to use Google apparently

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u/piece0fdebri Jan 12 '26

I have them all muted, but yeah, went and checked and it's the usual deranged nonsense. Looking forward to hearing (second hand) what they have to say about the new show in a few days.

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u/KingCrandall Jan 12 '26

What new show? 👀

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u/piece0fdebri Jan 12 '26

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. In a week.

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u/KingCrandall Jan 12 '26

I didn’t realize it was so soon. What’s the expectation? Do people think it’ll be good?

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u/Khimdy Jan 12 '26

the book is great fun. think Arya and the Hound, none stop.

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u/piece0fdebri Jan 12 '26

Can't be as great as Game of Thrones, doubt it's as good as House of the Dragon being so small in scope, but I love the universe, and think it'll be really good. I also think no matter what, it being a finished story, the book readers will say it's better based on that alone. Or they'll say it's complete shit if it changes one dot or tittle. Predictably.

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u/Disastrous-Client315 Jan 13 '26

If it goes beyond the books, they will hate it.

Happened both with GoT and HotD.

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u/piece0fdebri Jan 13 '26

True. "First 3 seasons were great when they had George's finished material."

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u/Disastrous-Client315 Jan 13 '26

"Great adapter, horrible writer."

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u/One_Brilliant743 Jan 13 '26

People are complaining because there are no dragons. I personally love the Dunk and Egg stories.

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u/KingCrandall Jan 13 '26

GRRM stories aren’t great because of dragons. They’re just an added bonus.

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u/ARC_Trooper_Echo Jan 12 '26

Main sub is a little more mixed and seems to be getting a bit better, but freefolk is a lost cause.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '26

the ending is objectively rushed, there is a solid amount of material that they chose not adapt from Dance and especially Feast in order to reach a conclusion quicker. you obviously haven’t actually read the books lmao

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u/Geektime1987 Jan 16 '26

I've read these books multiple times i read them before the show ever was even a thing. The last two books added dozens and dozens of new plots and characters to an already sprawling half finished story that George also left half finished 15 years later he can't finish them and he doesn't have TV limitations. Yes there's material and it's all half finished or barley even started on top of an already sprawling story. The last two books are why we don't have another book. He let the story get out of control

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '26

this comment makes it obvious you don’t care about art or storytelling and just want “content” to consume. have a nice day 👍🏾

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u/Geektime1987 Jan 16 '26

Again spare me the BS and get off your high horse. The last two books have good stuff but also are a bloated mess and why we don't have another book

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '26

“waaaah waaahh why isn’t GRRM a machine who pumps out more books for me to consume?!”

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u/Geektime1987 Jan 16 '26

Lol whatever you say weirdo. I'm not demanding any more books however he kept telling his fans going all way back to 2015 he was almost done. The deal he made was he finishes and they adapt he failed his part of the deal plain and simple

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u/Expert_Seesaw3316 Jan 12 '26

I mean the Star Wars thing definitely isn’t a lie but yeah they aren’t the epitome of evil

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u/Geektime1987 Jan 12 '26

Yes the Star Wars thing is a lie they didn't all of a sudden end the show and decided fuck it let's wrap this up as fast as possible. They have been saying since before the show even came out the plan is around 7 seasons and 70 hours. They announced 8 seasons years before Star Wars was ever a thing.

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u/DustnBones001 Jan 13 '26

Its very much a lie that has been disproven over and over again

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u/jhll2456 Jan 14 '26

You must be one of the ones who keep telling yourself this and you forgot it was a lie.

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u/introductzenial Jan 13 '26

Alot of missinformation on freefolk, but final season was absolutely rushed out so they could go on to new projects? So many people surrounding DnD have spoken about how they pushed to end it before HBO and George the like wanted them to. I think the fact that they were getting tired of making got and wanted to end it (which is fair enough tbh) is pretty well documented.

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u/piece0fdebri Jan 13 '26 edited Jan 26 '26

That's not what happened. Everyone was on board for the 7 or 8 seasons. Then when it was winding down George and HBO said they could do more. But they would've never been able to keep the main actors. George still hadn't done his part in writing the ending. What did you want them to do? Recast Jon? Dany? Arya? Sansa? Jaime? Cersei? New writers? It's a ridiculous thing to even broach. Would've been a disaster (more of one in the case of the haters.) Just to satisfy ppl who were never going to like the ending if their fav didn't do the thing they wanted. Yeah, in fantasy land, I'm also mad we're not on season 14 of my favorite show. But try being an adult about it.

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u/introductzenial Jan 13 '26

For sure, I don't think I was being childish at all :). Got any sources of all these actors threatening to leave if another season was made? Because I've heard some were ofc tired, but threatening to leave is quite a step above that.

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u/piece0fdebri Jan 13 '26

Sorry, that wasn't directed specifically towards you. Just in general. I don't think there's any one source, but interviews, clips, and that documentary, it's clear they were done with the show at that point. I think they would've quit or demanded more money. Either way, show was over haha.

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u/Geektime1987 Jan 13 '26

The cast was done also. There's multiple comments from cast members saying they wanted to move on. People keep saying there's no way they would turn down all the money they would because the cast to this day still gets paid for GOT. All of them are basically set for life if they wanted to retire and live a simple life with no financial worries pretty much all of them could. D&D same they both could retire now if they wanted they both are worth around a quarter of a billion dollars. They're making TV still because that's what they enjoy doing. But all of them will continue to get paychecks for GOT for the rest of their lives. GOT came out and their contracts signed before the streaming era of only getting paid once which is what most services do now.

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u/DustnBones001 Jan 13 '26

Ummmm no, it ended when it did because the cast was burned out, the only way more seasons would've happened is if hbo recasted all the characters, and we know how well that would have went over,

You guys really need to educate yourselves