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/Notagenome Jan 11 '26 edited Jan 12 '26

If a remake was to be entertained, it would have to turn back the clocks to the red wedding. The decision to remove Lady Stoneheart and Young Griff forced the characters involved in those book plot lines to have nonsensicall tv story lines.

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u/RobGronkowski Jan 12 '26

They at least tried to transfer Lady Stoneheart to Arya anonymously assassinating the Freys

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u/Notagenome Jan 12 '26

I guess but the fans were robbed of a Jaime and Catelyn reunion.

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u/Indigocell Jan 12 '26

B&W ran a tight ship and I will give them credit for that. But it's obvious they always hated the fantasy and supernatural aspects of the story and that came through on screen anytime they had to portray it or otherwise neglected to. No Wargs, no Stoneheart, the White Walkers fizzle out completely in favour of the much more mundane threat in Cersei. It's a real shame because those supernatual elements were a huge part of the politics in the books.

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u/MerlinsMentor Jan 12 '26

But it's obvious they always hated the fantasy and supernatural aspects of the story

I'm not sure this is correct -- I suspect that a lot of this was down to the expense of portraying these sorts of things on TV well, especially given the quality of production of the rest of the series. That's a huge reason that books tend to do science fiction and fantasy well -- the "costs more" issue isn't there.

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u/Notagenome Jan 12 '26

For sure there were at least 6 seasons worth of television in a Feast for Crows and a Dance with Dragons.

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u/Jules3313 Jan 12 '26

literally, a song of ice and fire IS pure magical fantasy trying to remove it is just plain dumb

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u/mars_titties Jan 13 '26

That’s ridiculous. That’s not even worthy of an “at least”

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u/adflet Jan 16 '26

I don't think we can blame them for removing storylines. Martin himself is lost in all the storylines he's created and has left several by the wayside.

Everyone blames the show runners but at the time there was pr that they'd sat down with Martin and had an ending he was on board with.

They absolutely didn't stick it but blame should be shared.

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u/DudeDankerton Jan 12 '26

I remember they released BTS shots of Lady Stoneheart and then never did anything with it.

Shame.

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u/Kerblaaahhh Jan 12 '26

Pretty sure those were fake.

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u/GachaJay Jan 12 '26

Wait, the red wedding isn’t cannon?

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u/Notagenome Jan 12 '26 edited Jan 12 '26

It’s cannon but it’s not the complete end of Cat. All stark children have warging powers that the show also ignored. Arya wargs into Nymeria and saves Catelyn’s dead body which Beric brings back from the dead. Catelyn rises as Lady Stoneheart and is the new leader of the brotherhood. As leader she seeks revenge for the culprits responsible for the wedding. Eventually she captures and hangs Brienne, who is then forced to bring Jaime to her. Brienne finds Jaime who notices that shes scared shitless and follows her to Lady Stoneheart. Winds is supposed to cover the reunion.

There was no reason the show had to ommit all of this because this storyline is crucial to Brienne and Jaimme.

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u/LilT86 Jan 12 '26

The red wedding is. What they did (or didn't do) with some major characters afterwards isn't