“There’s never a good ending and I think [the show’s writers] David Benioff and DB Weiss had a huge amount of pressure on them.”
However, the star admitted his judgment of the finale may be impaired by his own satisfaction of his character’s ending, which offered him a great deal of relief in moving on from the HBO fantasy.
He says it allowed him to move on in a positive way, particularly as his character was so damaged.
In one season, captured, castrated and treated like a pet, mockingly named Reek.