UPDATE: Petition urging HBO to “remake” Game Of Thrones' 8th season nearing 500,000 signatures
[This post contains spoilers for Game Of Thrones season eight.]
The disappointment felt within the Game Of Thrones community in the wake of Sunday night’s episode, “The Bells,” was palpable. People were upset with with Dany’s dramatic, arguably unearned heel turn. People were upset with the rushed conclusion to Jaime’s character arc, which seemed to ignore most of what he’d undergone the past few seasons. People were upset because Euron fucking Greyjoy exists. So, what happens in 2019 when fandoms get upset? They start petitions, of course.
One such petition demanding that HBO remake season eight of Game Of Thrones “with competent writers” was launched on Change.org soon after the episode aired and has since garnered over 16,000 signatures. The idea that HBO would be willing to reinvest the unimaginable amount of time and money it took to make the most expensive season of television ever produced simply because fans didn’t like it is inherently ridiculous. Not to mention the fact that David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, for better or worse, were the driving force behind making this show in the first place. You can dislike the decisions they made, but handing it off to some imagined savior writer isn’t exactly a reasonable request.