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It’s taken simply over 5 years for him to talk out on the subject, however Kit Harington lastly acknowledges the criticism and agrees with the consensus of tv viewers in every single place:
The Game of Thrones sequence finale was actually fairly horrible.
“I feel if there was any fault with the top of Thrones, is that we had been all so f-cking drained, we couldn’t have gone on longer,” Harington advised GQ in a brand new interview.
“And so I perceive some individuals thought it was rushed and I’d agree with them. But I’m unsure there was any different.”
The closing Game of Thrones episode aired on May 19, 2019.
It topped Bran Stark because the ruler of the Seven Kingdoms, an sudden and disappointing decision to principally everybody who had adopted the legendary sequence for eight seasons.
When requested by the aforementioned publication about this letdown of episode, which was in some way the lowest-rated of the whole drama, Harington stated he understood the place critics had been coming from with their frustrations.
“Everyone is entitled to their opinion,” he stated. “I feel there have been errors made, story-wise, in direction of the top perhaps. I feel there have been some attention-grabbing selections that didn’t fairly work.”
Despite this admission, Harington delved right into a little bit of element with GQ in regards to the proposed Game of Thrones spinoff that may have featured his character, Jon Snow.
“What I can inform you is it was HBO that got here to me and stated, ‘Would you take into account this?’ My first response was ‘no,’” he stated.
“And then I believed there might be an attention-grabbing and essential story in regards to the soldier after the conflict. I felt that there is likely to be one thing left to say and a narrative left to inform in a reasonably restricted approach.”
The spinoff superior by means of manufacturing and a few years had been spent creating it… however Harington simply didn’t see the upside.
“In the top, I type of backed out and stated, ‘I feel if we push this any additional and maintain creating it we might find yourself with one thing that’s not good. And that’s the very last thing all of us need,’” he advised GQ.
The British star — who performs a essential position on Industry Season 3 — additionally stated he didn’t need to be recognized to audiences simply as Jon Snow.
He was additionally happy with the best way this soldier was written off on Game of Thrones.
“Seeing him transcend the Wall again to one thing true, one thing trustworthy, one thing pure with these individuals, he was at all times advised he belongs with — the Free Folk — it felt to me like he was lastly free,” Harington stated to The Hollywood Reporter in 2019.
“It was a very candy ending. As a lot as he had finished a horrible factor [in killing Daenerys], as a lot as he had felt that ache, the precise ending for him was lastly being launched.”
