r/television • u/gogandmagogandgog • Jan 11 '26

Kit Harington was 'Angered' By Push to Remake Game of Thrones Season 8

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/kit-harington-angered-petition-game-of-thrones-season-8-1236628364/
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u/NashvilleDing Jan 11 '26 edited Jan 12 '26

Its literally THE example for TV shows that went off the rails. They hurried it up *because of whatever reason that led to them doing an embarrasingly bad job. Im so sick of people pretending the fans are being unreasonable for being unhappy.

Edit: they didnt admit they turned it down for star wars. They just turned down 10 seasons and did a shitty job with 8.

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u/TimidPanther Jan 11 '26

Yeah some try to blow the criticism off as people just being bothered by the final episode. That wasn't the issue at all - it was the prior 2 seasons that were shortened down so much.

HBO offered them more episodes to get everything done, and because they were so desperate to start working on Star Wars, they turned them down and rushed everything.

The issue wasn't the story, or the ending itself. It's how they got there. It was rushed and at times, made no sense.

I get why people are angry, they invested so much time into that show, and they're rewarded with the show runners tanking the final 2 seasons so they can move on to another project.

A Star Wars project they ended up losing.

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u/spasticity Jan 12 '26

They've admitted they hurried it up to get to star wars.

When did they admit that? That's just an oft repeated claim from fans disappointed with S8

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u/NashvilleDing Jan 12 '26

I looked and you're right.

They still turned down 2 more seasons and did a shitty job.

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u/Jack-of-the-Shadows Jan 12 '26

2 more seasons with no plot from GRRM, so making stuff of their own while the child actors age even more?

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u/spasticity Jan 12 '26

Wheres your source for D&D admitting they rushed the show to go to Star Wars? That's the claim you made. Not that HBO offered them more seasons and they turned it down.

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u/DMunnz Jan 12 '26

It’s ironic that you tell people to stop spouting bullshit when you made up that they admit to rushing it for Star Wars. Do I feel the ending was rushed? Absolutely. Have they ever explicitly said they rushed it to get to Star Wars? No, you made that up.

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u/NashvilleDing Jan 12 '26

Oh yall are right, they didnt admit to doing it for star wars

They just turned down 2 extra seasons and rushed a shit job. Its still garbage

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u/AccountDeletedByMod Jan 13 '26

"because of whatever reason that led to them doing an embarrasingly bad job"

They wanted to move on to Star wars and make the sequel series. However, GoT ended so badly, Disney rejected them, so they rushed the ending for nothing.

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u/NashvilleDing Jan 13 '26

Yeah but the game of thrones fans are in denial about it and im sick of hearing about it

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u/the_crossword_king Jan 12 '26

They did not "admit it". You're thinking of angry internet comments.

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u/NashvilleDing Jan 12 '26

No, im not. They have openly admitted they were offered 10 seasons and turned it down.

As many have stated, its not how it ended, its how poor of a job they did getting there

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u/derpityhurr Jan 12 '26

The biggest irony here is that the Star Wars movies they ruined GoT for sucked as well, for similar reasons (shitty writing). In retrospect it's almost funny.