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Kit Harington gets candid on still feeling 'very defensive' over Game of Thrones season 8
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In no particular order, I blame the GoT writers, showrunners, producers, and GRRM.
The cast and other crew hold no culpability whatsoever in the situation.
And yeah I can understand being sore at being the subject of a million memes about “Ah dun wunnit, she’s mah kween”
But it’s not Kit’s fault that GRRM couldn’t keep up the pace with the source material, or that the producers tried shoe-horning ten or twelve episodes of plot points into a final season of six episodes.
Iirc it wasn't 10-12 episodes worth of plot in 6, but rather 40 episodes into 13. The original plan was to have 10 seasons, 10 episodes each. Then around the end of s6, the showrunners were in talks with Disney to work on their own Star Wars trilogy after GoT ended. Their solution was to cram the rest of the plot (40 eps across seasons 7-10) into 2 seasons, which ended up being 7 eps for s7 and 6 eps for s8. After this royal fuckup tanked the brand, Disney refused to hire them
I blame Martin first and fucking foremost for never finishing the series.
Once the producers ran out of his actual content, they bailed rather than try to fill in his blanks. They deserve a lot of blame, but none so much as Martin, who spent decades partying off his fame and doing anything other than finishing the work that made him famous.
Fuck him.