Kit Harington “Genuinely Angered” By Idiotic ‘Game Of Thrones’ Online Petition To Remake Season 8 With “Competent” Writers: “How Dare You?”

Kit Harington, like it or not, is synonymous with “Game of Thrones” (likely will be for the rest of his career) and is sharing his frustrations with the show’s fandom after they put out a petition lobbying HBO to remake the eighth and final season of the mainline series, due to backlash from the time, and getting “competent writers” to take over for the showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss earning 1.8 million signaures (As insulting as it gets concerning these fan-wish petitions).

“That genuinely angered me,” Harington told the New York Times. “Like, how dare you? Sorry, that’s just how I feel. I think it was a level of idiocy that can only come about through social media.”

His frustrations here feel warranted given that it disrespects everyone who worked on those episodes (not just Benioff and Weiss, although they still don’t deserve that kind of ire for making a series of fantasy TV that not everyone was into), with the idea that they can be simply erased or retconned for some nitpicky fan wish that is silly from the jump.

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At one time, Hartington was being primed for a return to Westeros for a Jon Snow spinoff series, but that ultimately didn’t get out of the development stage (not the first or last “Game of Thrones” spinoff series that didn’t make it to pilot) and seemingly is as dead as it gets.

More recently, Sophie Turner, who played Harington’s sister in the show, said she might be open to the idea of coming back to the franchise (Sansa Stark ends up the Queen of the North with their younger brother Bran Stark ruling Westeros) if the money and premise were attractive. Admitting to The Direct earlier in the month, while she was happy with how Sansa’s story turned out, her co-stars weren’t as happy.

When asked about a return, “Show me the money [laughs]. I don’t know, I think it would be hard but also amazing to come back to it…I feel that I was very happy with the way Sansa ended her story in ‘Game of Thrones,’ and no one else was really happy with their ending,” Turner said. “I feel like I got a good one, and so I don’t know if I could revisit it.”

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On deck for HBO is their new show “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” (a more whimsical side of Westeros, still violent, based on George R.R. Martin‘s “Hedge Knight” tales) debuting on Sunday, and “House of the Dragon” is in its third season, with a yet-to-be-announced premiere date expected sometime later this year.