Five years after the end of Season 8, Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have officially responded to the backlash and fan reactions.Game of Thrones’ final episode, “The Iron Throne,” easily ranks as the most controversial television finale ever aired, eclipsing the controversy of The Sopranos’ and Lost’s infamous endings. The fan reaction was so excessively negative that Benioff and Weiss reportedly canceled their appearance at 2019’s San Diego Comic-Con and over a million reported fans signed a petition “to remake Season 8 with competent writers.” The showrunners broke their silence on the backlash, with Benioff stating that it would have been great if 100% of audience members had loved the ending, but he had accepted that was simply not the case. Benioff described the mental effects of the backlash, stating that creators can get bogged down in public opinion and spend their lives googling responses to figure out how and why the audience feels a certain way.Weiss added, “Even super positive feedback makes you feel weird and teeth-grindy and on edge. There’s a drug quality to the feedback, and as soon as we went cold turkey — the last time I googled myself was in 2013 — the ambient stress level in our lives dropped by about 50 percent overnight.”
Five years after the end of Season 8, Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have officially responded to the backlash and fan reactions.
Game of Thrones‘ final episode, “The Iron Throne,” easily ranks as the most controversial television finale ever aired, eclipsing the controversy of The Sopranos‘ and Lost‘s infamous endings. The fan reaction was so excessively negative that Benioff and Weiss reportedly canceled their appearance at 2019’s San Diego Comic-Con and over a million reported fans signed a petition “to remake Season 8 with competent writers.” The showrunners broke their silence on the backlash, with Benioff stating that it would have been great if 100% of audience members had loved the ending, but he had accepted that was simply not the case. Benioff described the mental effects of the backlash, stating that creators can get bogged down in public opinion and spend their lives googling responses to figure out how and why the audience feels a certain way.
Weiss added, “Even super positive feedback makes you feel weird and teeth-grindy and on edge. There’s a drug quality to the feedback, and as soon as we went cold turkey — the last time I googled myself was in 2013 — the ambient stress level in our lives dropped by about 50 percent overnight.”
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