‘Game Of Thrones’ Director and Actress Defend Season 8 Storytelling
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Many television series over the years have ended in controversial finales, leaving their fans polarized and heavily divided. Some of these include The Sopranos, How I Met Your Mother, and Lost, to name a few. However, almost none of these reach the level of polarization, anger, and frustration as that spawned by Game of Thrones, produced by HBO and adapted from George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire (as yet unfinished) book series.
Game of Thrones ended in 2019 after eight seasons, with the final two seasons having fewer episodes than the earlier seasons (although Season 8 episodes were longer) to wrap up its multiple story and character arcs. Some of this content came without the benefit of source material for the showrunners Benioff and Weiss to adapt. Many once-devoted viewers of the show are still frustrated and divided by the final seasons, as well as the fates of many of the characters, particularly that of Daenerys Targaryen, who died at Jon Snow’s hands after taking a surprising (to some people) villainous turn as a character by burning King’s Landing and declaring her intent to brutally subjugate Westeros.
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Despite all of the anger and frustration about the series finale, the show (and its showrunners) is still not without its defenders. Director Matt Shakman, who directed two episodes of Season 7, The Spoils of War and Eastwatch, defended the series finale in a recent interview by stating, “I think those guys [David Benioff & D.B. Weiss] are brilliant and I think they finished telling the story they intended to tell. I know that it was divisive, but I would never want to say anything about how they could have done something better.”
Sounding a similar note, actress Bella Ramsey, who played the young noblewoman Lyanna Mormont in later seasons of the series, discussed it on an appearance on The Jimmy Fallon Show. “People like to ask me what I thought of the ending. And I ask them back, “What did you think of it?” I don’t know, I don’t have an opinion. I just let them either hate on it or talk about how great it was — mostly hate on the ending for like 10 minutes, and then I just sit there and listen and then say, “Goodbye, nice to meet you,” and then that’s it. Generally, the consensus is that it wasn’t great… It seemed fine to me.”
Meanwhile, George R.R. Martin is reportedly still working on finishing the A Song of Ice of Fire book series with the tentatively titled The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring. There is currently no expected release date for either of them, with some fans of the series concerned that he may never finish them before he passes. However, HBO has moved on with adapting Martin’s prequel story about the Targaryen dynasty, House of the Dragon, with the first season airing last year (2022) and the second expected to arrive in summer 2024.
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Sources: Wiki of Thrones, MSN, Culture Slate
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