Winter is coming.
Kit Harington wasn’t happy that “Game of Thrones” fans launched a petition to redo the eighth and final season of the HBO hit because they were disappointed with how it ended.
“That genuinely angered me,” the 39-year-old actor, who played Jon Snow from the fantasy drama’s premiere in 2011 until its finale in 2019, told The New York Times during an interview published Sunday. “Like, how dare you?”
“Sorry, that’s just how I feel,” the “Industry” star added. “I think it was a level of idiocy that can only come about through social media.”
Harington was in rehab when the final season of “Game of Thrones” aired in April and May of 2019, he told the outlet.
Although he was surprised to learn later that fans were upset with how the show concluded, Harington couldn’t believe that 1.8 million signed a petition asking HBO to redo the last season with “competent writers” instead of showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.
The petition also claimed that Benioff and Weiss were “woefully incompetent when they have no source material to fall back on” because, unlike earlier seasons, creator George R. R. Martin had not yet finished the “A Song of Ice and Fire” book series that the show was based on.
“This series deserves a final season that makes sense,” the petition read. “Subvert my expectations and make it happen, HBO!”
But this wouldn’t be the first time that Harington addressed the controversial final season of “Game of Thrones.”
He previously told GQ that, if fans weren’t as satisfied as they were with earlier seasons and episodes, it was because the cast and crew were “exhausted” by the end.
“I think if there was any fault with the end of ‘Thrones,’ it’s that we were all so f–king tired, we couldn’t have gone on longer,” he told the outlet in 2024. “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.”
The Season 8 finale in question saw Harington’s character kill his aunt-turned-lover, Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke), before exiling himself north of the Wall.
Fans were also annoyed to see Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead-Wright) become king, and Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) seemingly leave Westeros for good.
Other “Game of Thrones” stars to speak out against the Season 8 redo petition include Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark) and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jamie Lannister).
Turner, 29, called the petition “disrespectful” during a 2019 interview with The New York Times.
“So many people worked so, so hard on it, and for people to just rubbish it because it’s not what they want to see is just disrespectful,” she said.
Coster-Waldau, meanwhile, called the petition “annoying” and acknowledged that sticking the landing after seven successful seasons was always going to be “difficult” to achieve.
“I absolutely think people are entitled to whatever opinion they have, but it’s a television show,” the 55-year-old actor told The Independent in September. “Someone told you a story, and you didn’t like the ending.”
“It’s really annoying,” Coster-Waldau added. “But how are you ever gonna make an end that’s gonna satisfy everyone? That’s a very difficult thing.”
