Kit Harington, who played Jon Snow in Game of Thrones, shared his views on the controversial fan petition that demanded HBO remake the show’s final season. The petition that was signed by two million fans worldwide asked for the final season to be redone with “with competent writers.”
Harington’s response to the fans’ petition was very direct. “That genuinely angered me,” Harington said in a new interview with the New York Times. “Like, how dare you? Sorry, that’s just how I feel.”
Harington feels that showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss put a lot of effort into creating the final season. It was also challenging because the show has moved beyond George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire books, which remain incomplete to this day. As a result, the writers had to create their own ending without source material to guide them.
When Harington discovered that millions of fans had signed the Change.org petition calling for a complete remake of season eight, his frustration was clear.
“I think it was a level of idiocy that can only come about through social media,” Harington said.
Game of Thrones Season 8 premiered while the actor was in rehabilitation treatment for alcohol addiction and stress-related issues. When he completed his treatment and returned, he was by how dramatically fan opinion had shifted.
“I went in and everyone loved Thrones; I came out and everyone hated it,” Harington previously said in April 2024. “I think if there was any fault with the end of Thrones, is that we were all so f—ing tired, we couldn’t have gone on longer. And so I understand some people thought it was rushed and I might agree with them. But I’m not sure there was any alternative. I look at pictures of me in that final season and I look exhausted. I look spent. I didn’t have another season in me.”
The actor’s comments reveal the physical and emotional toll that producing the final season took on the cast and crew. The demanding production schedule, combined with the pressure of concluding one of television’s biggest shows, left everyone involved completely drained.
