This ‘Game of Thrones’ star would sign a petition to remake the final season

[Chris Smith]

• Game of Thrones season 8 is one of the worst final seasons of a TV series in the history of television.
• Some fans are still angry at the various choices that turned season 8 into one of the worst possible things to air on TV last year.
• It's not just fans that are critical of the creative decisions that went into the final season. One of the prominent stars of Game of Thrones said he'd sign the petition to remake season 8.

You only realize how bad 2020 really is — and it's only mid-August — when you're reminded of relatively recent events that you thought were among the worst possible things to happen to the human race in modern times. Take last year's final season Game of Thrones, which turned out to be the biggest disappointment in TV history for a large portion of the show's fans, yours truly included. The whole thing is incomparable to actual tragedies like the novel coronavirus pandemic that has changed everything about how we live our ordinary lives. Yet it was one of the unexpected letdowns of 2019, a memory that can never be corrected.

The final season sparked a massive wave of protests against the showrunners, with nearly two million fans having signed a petition asking HBO to remake the final season with more competent writers. HBO stood by the creative decisions that David Benioff and D.B. Weiss took, making it clear that the studio did not influence the final season. But it also said that the show will stay as is, regardless of what critics say. Some of those critics are more prominent than others, with a Game of Thrones star saying that he would sign that petition, and with another joking that he'd have donated to the petition.

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