The final season of Game of Thrones left many fans feeling cheated and betrayed.
Confusing character arcs, a lack of deaths… the 6 episodes promoted thousands to sign a petition calling for HBO to redo season 8.
While months have passed —and most have gotten over the ending — a director from the series still feels as though the backlash was a bit much, even though he understood it.
“I don’t necessarily think the backlash was justified, but it was unavoidable,” said Neil Marshall. “You were never going to be able to please everybody, and when you’ve got fans as loyal as dedicated as those fans are, we’re talking millions of people with opinions globally. I think they did an amazing job and endings are always tricky? How do you end these stories. You’ve got to end them somewhere, but how do you do it?”
All said and done, the director of the episodes Blackwater and The Watchers on the Wall is satisfied with how the series concluded.
“My feeling is that everyone ended up exactly where they were supposed to end up. I think it’s a huge story, but it resolved itself in the way it was meant to.”
