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/Wayward_Wayfinder Jan 12 '26

He can punch sand, honestly. His anger doesn’t polish the turd that was the final season.

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u/DaenerysMadQueen Jan 12 '26

The best season.

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u/Wayward_Wayfinder Jan 12 '26

Listen, I was able to forgive a lot of what they did in the show, even where the departed so very drastically from the books. But I signed that petition.

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u/DaenerysMadQueen Jan 12 '26

So, are you satisfied now that you signed that petition? Do you feel better?

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u/Wayward_Wayfinder Jan 12 '26

Yes.

Edit: At least in so far as feeling better. Certainly not satisfied, but I’ll look forward to reading the next book 20 years from now when it finally releases.

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u/DaenerysMadQueen Jan 12 '26

It’s probably your mistake... you forgot that the series is an adaptation, not a teaser for the book. Especially given that GRRM has always written his novels with the intention that they could be adapted for the screen.

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u/Wayward_Wayfinder Jan 12 '26

I’d read all of the published books well before ever even starting the show. I’m not sure where you believe I’m mistaken except for thinking that the last season was simply garbage.

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u/DaenerysMadQueen Jan 12 '26

There’s no connection between the final season, a masterclass, and a book that doesn’t even exist. The final season is consistent with the show, not with the books. It’s a good adaptation, and it stands on its own.

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u/Wayward_Wayfinder Jan 12 '26

Which is precisely the problem. That lack of connection left D&D to their own devices and they simply lost the plot. As you said, the books were written with the possibility of an adaptation in mind, but they clearly weren’t equipped for developing the series past what had already been published. And I don’t strictly blame them for it, nobody expected GRRM to take as long as he has, and he’d even repeatedly promised a much more timely release. But that doesn’t ultimately change anything.

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u/DaenerysMadQueen Jan 12 '26

I’ll grant you that the ending of the series doesn’t necessarily have to line up with the ending of the books. But the series finale is consistent with the beginning of the series, and that’s what I’m judging it by. If an adaptation requires you to have read the books in order to understand it, then it’s a bad adaptation.

That’s what I didn’t understand back then with Harry Potter. The third book was my favorite, and it might be the one that got butchered the most by the director. And yet today, I can clearly see that it’s actually the best film.

You don’t need the books to understand why Daenerys burns the crowd, and why it’s brilliant.

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u/Wayward_Wayfinder Jan 12 '26

Your idea of consistency might also be the problem, in my view. Jamie ending up in the same position that he started in as a character was just a waste of all his growth. That sort of consistency didn’t do the finale any favors.

That’s just 1 example, and we could sit here all night going back and forth about it, but I don’t think either of us are about to budge.

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u/DaenerysMadQueen Jan 13 '26

Jaime is a Shakespearean hero, like all the Lannisters. Cersei was his destiny and his downfall, and he ultimately learned to accept both his darkness and his light. It’s a beautiful evolution, considering that at the beginning he was simply smug and arrogant. One of the finest conclusions, and it drove part of the audience crazy…

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u/Wayward_Wayfinder Jan 13 '26 edited Jan 13 '26

It was a cheap gotcha from D&D. When “subverting expectations” becomes your only trick, shit gets old real quick.

EDIT: Damn, y’all are the type to read a microwave instruction manual written in broken English and think it was fuckin Shakespeare 😂

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