Game Of Thrones Star Says Final Season Backlash Was Silly

When the final season of Game of Thrones was airing, there was lots of talk of the stars being upset with the ending, because of some out of context interviews and disgruntled fans losing their mind over the possibility that anyone could disagree with them. It simply wasn't true, judging by pretty much every comment that's come out of from the cast since then, but hey, don't let the truth spoil a good story.

Now Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (aka Jaime Lannister) has turned up at Nashville's Con Of Thrones and offered his own take on the outrage that met the finale:

“This happens every season. We’re so lucky to be part of a show where people … care so much about it that you also get upset when it doesn’t go the way you want it to. And that’s fantastic, and I love it, and I love that there was an online petition to have it rewritten.”

Despite saying he loved that - clearly meaning he loved the passion of the fans and their commitment to the show being the best it could be - he also discussed how it impacted everyone who actually made the show and reflected on the silliness of some suggestions about the ending being consciously sabotaged:

“The only thing I’ll say is that for anyone to imagine or to think that the two creators of this show are not the most passionate, the greatest, the most invested of all, and to for a second think that they didn’t spend the last 10 years thinking about how they were gonna end it, is kinda silly. And also know that they too read the comments, and even though you sit on your own and go, ‘F*cking stupid writers! Assholes ’ … they really, like everyone on Game of Thrones … and there are thousands, we worked our asses off to make the best show we could for the ending.”

This isn't the first time the impact of that petition has been discussed by a cast member as Sophie Turner previously called it disrespectful. And it's hard to imagine anyone involved in the show was particularly delighted by the idea that their work should just be thrown out.

Anyway, it's not going to happen now and everyone's just going to have to move on. Luckily, fanbases always do that with no issues...