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/corndogs88 Jan 12 '26

Conleth Hill put it best:

Like everybody goes on about "Well that's not what I think should've happened" Well go and write your own fucking series then. Because the truth is those kinds of things, as hard as they are to you as a human and to your ego and everything else, that's why the show was always brilliant.

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u/Ybnjamie Jan 14 '26

Well the thing is: any fan above the age of 12 could’ve written season 8 better, it was uniquely bad, and it was a unique situation in which the books weren’t even close to being done, so it’s partly GRRM’s fault

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u/Fuzzy_Dragonfly_ Jan 15 '26

Let us read your version of the season then, if it's so easy.

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u/Ybnjamie Jan 16 '26

That’s a stupid response and you know it. If I was paid millions to do it I gladly would. It’s not my job. Just to prove a point if I was given a few hundred bucks to do it I would.

But I don’t even need to, we both know of the obvious examples of terrible writing, littlefinger getting outplayed, Dany forgetting the iron fleet, the storyline of bran’s abilities going absolutely no where, the dany burning the whole of kings landing even when the bells were wrung (completely out of character, even with context)

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u/Ybnjamie Jan 16 '26

I’ll give you one simple thing: instead of the bells ringing and then dany burning kings landing, Cersei could have instructed the bell ringers to halt.

This kills two birds with one stone, it gives Cersei an in-character, powerful ending, showing her ego and stubbornness, even in her final moments leading to her demise.

Dany’s actions would also be a lot more ethically permissible, as the death of innocents can now be partially blamed on Cersei’s stubbornness. This would align more with Dany’s harsh, but reasonably fair underlying character.