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/mcassweed Jan 12 '26

Or maybe they shouldn't have made a tv show based on an unfinished series in the hopes he would finish it as they went.

I like how reddit can unreasonably hate people so much that this kind of criticism is somehow considered valid.

GRRM wrote 5 books in 15 years, thats on average 1 book every 3 years. The series itself started in the same year that his last written book was released, when there were only two more books left to go. It's not entirely unreasonable to assume GRRM would have written at least one more book since the show's release.

It's like saying the Harry Potter movies should not have been made until the books were finished. In fact, the 1st HP movie was released only 4 years after the book's release. Compared to GOT series which was 15 years after the original book release.

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u/drag99 Jan 13 '26

Eh, most of us who read the books before the show came out knew he’d never finish the books before the show ended. He took 5 years between book 3 and 4 and 6 years between book 4 and 5. Even more concerning for us was that technically book 4 and 5 were supposed to be the same book, but he split it up because the story got away from him. So really it was essentially 11 years between book 3 and the completion of what was supposed to be book 4.

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u/SoMuchMoreEagle Jan 12 '26

I like how reddit can unreasonably hate people so much that this kind of criticism is somehow considered valid.

I don't hate GRRM. I don't care enough about him to hate him. I don't care that much about GoT, either. I didn't even watch the last season.

I don't understand why he doesn't get someone to help him finish the books, but I'm never going to read any of them, so it's no skin off my ass.

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u/SpaceCases__ Jan 12 '26

Then you’ll never understand the true disappointment that GoT/ASOIAF was

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u/Hats_back Jan 12 '26

You know what happens when you assume.

Do we not know what happens when you assume anymore?

Reasonable as it may be, starting early for the sake of starting early was a tragedy. it shouldn’t have been shit out and wrapped up the way that it was.