{"id":231469,"date":"2026-01-13T20:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/231469\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T20:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:52:16","slug":"kit-harington-hits-out-at-game-of-thrones-finale-critics-and-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/231469\/","title":{"rendered":"Kit Harington hits out at Game of Thrones finale critics and petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Reflecting on the final season of Game of Thrones, which ran from 2011 until 2019, he thinks one \u201cfault\u201d was that its cast and crew \u201cwere all so f****** tired, we couldn\u2019t have gone on longer\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Harington, who starred in the drama alongside the likes of Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen), Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) and Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister), told the magazine: \u201cAnd so I understand some people thought it was rushed, and I might agree with them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBut I\u2019m 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\u2019t have another season in me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Despite criticising the millions of fans for not liking the final season of Game of Thrones \u2013 in which Harington said one battle scene took 55 consecutive nights to film \u2013 he recognised that \u201ceveryone is entitled to their opinion\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI think there were mistakes made, story-wise, towards the end, maybe. I think there were some interesting choices that didn\u2019t quite work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reflecting on the final season of Game of Thrones, which ran from 2011 until 2019, he thinks one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[95,137569,1975,5842,13504,156,5904,3015,5269,137568,130319,4508,84285,111,139,69,1118,3111,128,125037,6926,74899],"class_list":["post-231469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-and","tag-angered","tag-at","tag-calling","tag-critics","tag-entertainment","tag-final","tag-finale","tag-game","tag-genuinely","tag-harington","tag-hits","tag-kit","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-out","tag-petition","tag-remade","tag-season","tag-thrones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}