Three months on, the Game Of Thrones season eight finale still has everyone up in arms over how the HBO epic ended.
And that includes some of the cast members.
Natalia Tena, who played the wildling Osha on the show, has admitted she ‘ranted’ for an hour about how much she disliked the finale, saying she didn’t understand it.
The 34-year-old was joined by Faye Marsay, aka The Waif, on Kate Thornton’s Yahoo podcast White Wine Question Time, when Kate asked the girls whether they were happy with the Game Of Throne finale.
Natalia, who appeared in 16 episodes of the show, said: ‘I liked it to the bit where [Arya] stabs him in the heart, the White Walker.
‘I liked up to then. But after that… I feel like… I just didn’t understand it. The calibre of writing towards the end, and the plots, and everything that happened, and how they wrapped up, compared to any other season, any other bit, it just feels like it’s been written by different people.
‘It doesn’t make sense. For me.’
She continued: ‘I was a few glasses of wine in when I watched that. I’d binge watched the whole thing, but I ended up… my boyfriend had to leave the boat, because I was ranting for an hour at him about how much I didn’t like it.
‘Then I rang my friend to rant to him.’
Kate asked: ‘And you still haven’t made peace with it?’, with Natalia replying: ‘No, I’m cool. It’s done. I don’t think I’d go as far as petition. I think they had to end it, I just don’t understand…’
However, Faye was much more of a peacemaker in the situation.
The 32-year-old said: ‘People are always going to be p***ed off with how it ended though. The fans are such fanatics, and that’s wonderful, and thank God that we’ve had jobs in that world, but I always feel like whatever you write, they’re still going to be annoyed by it.
‘I know Dan [Weiss] and David [Benioff], the showrunners, well and they’re wonderful talented human beings, and whether it’s p***ed people off or not, Game of Thrones did the job of being an amazing piece of television. And so in that respect it did its job, whether they like the ending or not, it did its job.’
Natalia isn’t the only Game Of Thrones star who was peeved about the events of season eight, as Conleth Hill looked less than pleased during a read-through as he discovered Varys would be killed.
However, the majority of the cast have backed the way the showrunners chose to end the show.
Speaking at Comic Con, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, aka Jaime Lannister, said: ‘‘It was surprising, the absurdity of the online petition. Of course, HBO is going to change the whole thing, because that’s the power of the internet.
‘Every season, there was a huge controversy, from Ned Stark to the Red Wedding. Obviously, the end… I feel so lucky to have met so many people, fans, realising this show brought so many people together.
‘When it comes to an end, it’s going to p*** you off no matter what, because it’s the end. And that’s alright. If you hated the ending, or you loved it? That’s great – just don’t call people names.’
Backlash or not, Game Of Thrones’ final season received a whopping 32 Emmy nominations, including one for Gwendoline Christie, after she submitted her own name for consideration for her role as Brienne of Tarth.
Kate Thornton’s White Wine Question Time is available to download on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts.
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