‘Eight installments’ sound depreciatingly monotonous for any show, referring in a recent conversation with British GQ, where Kit Harington stated that the cast of “Game of Thrones” was “all so fucking tired,” making it impossible to continue the show after eight seasons.
The popular HBO series ended abruptly with a shortened final season (six episodes instead of ten) for the infuriated viewers, who were particularly critical of the show’s hurried rhythm. The actor who played Jon Snow, Harington, acknowledges that he couldn’t gather the willpower to produce more “Thrones,” but he doesn’t inherently concur with the critics.
“I think if there was any fault with the end of ‘Thrones,’ is that we were all so fucking tired, we couldn’t have gone on longer,” Harington said. “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.”
Regarding the contentious ending, Harington stated that “everyone is entitled to their opinion” and continued, ” I think there were mistakes made, story-wise, toward the end maybe. I think there were some interesting choices that didn’t quite work.”
Harington also talked about the HBO spinoff Snow,’ which was formerly underway and was known as Thrones. The actor explained his reasoning for working on the character, even if he refused to reveal the plot (“because it starts a whole thing [online]”).
“What I can tell you is it was HBO that came to me and said, ‘Would you consider this?’ My first reaction was no,” Harington informed British GQ about the spinoff. “And then I thought there could be an interesting and important story about the soldier after the war. I felt that there might be something left to say and a story left to tell in a pretty limited way.”
“We spent a couple of years back and forth developing it,” he added. “And it just didn’t … nothing got us excited enough. In the end, I kind of backed out and said, ‘I think if we push this any further and keep developing it we could end up with something that’s not good. And that’s the last thing we all want.’”