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Game of Thrones’ finale was divisive, to say the least, namely because the fantasy epic fans invested the best part of a decade to have their ending rushed into six episodes.
There were countless storylines that never wrapped up, questions that will never be answered and now creator George RR Martin has lashed out at HBO producers for forcing him to throw the spotlight on characters he otherwise wouldn’t have and cutting the finale short.
‘It can be… traumatic,’ the creator of Westeros told Fast Company. ‘Because sometimes their creative vision and your creative vision don’t match, and you get the famous creative differences thing — that leads to a lot of conflict.
‘The [final] series has been… not completely faithful. Otherwise, it would have to run another five seasons.
‘You get totally extraneous things like the studio or the network weighing in, and they have some particular thing that has nothing to do with story, but relates to “Well this character has a very high Q Rating so let’s give him a lot more stuff to do.”’
Backlash towards the Game of Thrones finale was unprecedented. A petition amassed almost two million signatures calling for season eight to be rewritten while writers D.B. Weiss and David Benioff have been listed as ‘bad writers’ on Google.
Regardless, Game of Thrones bowed out with a further 32 Emmy Awards, including the biggest prize of the year winning the coveted Best Drama while Peter Dinklage broke his own Emmy record to win Best Supporting Actor for a fourth time.
And he celebrated with a suitably sweary speech, which has to be severely bleeped out during the live broadcast. Tyrion Lanniser would be proud.
Game of Thrones seasons one to eight are available to stream on NOW TV.
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