Aiden Gillen defends D&D on season 8 of Game of Thrones

[@imaneelmir9491]

Wonderful actor

[@Divine_Chareka]

Love this man's performance in GoT

[@thewkovacs316]

you cannot trust a thing carcetti says

[@mayerbasic7004]

In GoT cast interviews, one thing is perfectly clear: D & D were obviously very well-liked. No one is going throw them under the bus. The only other person you can blame is GRRM for not finishing the books fast enough. Obviously no one is going to do that either.

[@NorthCitySider]

Yes, I think their bonds to the show and the creators prevent them from seeing things objectively.

[@Mediados]

@@NorthCitySider I mean most of them know that it was shit and it's obvious they do, but if you like someone and if you work in the business you're not going to say that so directly. They understand far better that things are not that simple.

[@zackshirogane8374]

@@Mediados I agree and I’m pretty sure some of the cast still have nda contracts where they still can’t say anything bad about the show.

[@riveraharper8166]

"D & D were obviously very well-liked." Among the paid staff you mean...

[@riveraharper8166]

It's too soon yet and these actors ...well they just want jobs later.

[@tbass94]

He's sort of like an Irish Gary Oldman

[@GalicianGranddaughter666]

People turned on the "writers" because the last season was crappy from a writing standpoint. It's as simple as that. I get having his own opinion and being fine with how things ended but bashing people for being rightfully angry about the lack of plot coherence is just snobby of him.

[@aasathizbullah2789]

exactly, think whatever you want, but it don't blame people who have been following the show for years for calling out bullshit, cause if one person out of 100 says something it can be debated, but if 99 people are in agreement about the same thing then you seriously messed up a show that everyone came to love and now can never watch again without the disappointment of the ending

[@PrimerCinePodcast]

100%

[@matthewrobar8083]

It's not your story. It's theirs. The viewers only job is to consume. Not tell the show runners how to end THEIR story. Also, grrm didn't finish. So the ending was up to them.

[@riveraharper8166]

@@matthewrobar8083 You're tight. After GoT I always triple check what I consume...

[@aulvinduergard9952]

@@matthewrobar8083 _"The viewers only job is to comsume."_ Where's my paycheck? Oh, right, the audience didn't get paid to 'consume,' *they paid* to consume, meaning they have every right to criticize if what they're paying for isn't up to the standard they've come to expect. You're an idiot to think otherwise.

[@mindblast7470]

He really is littlefinger, always helping out the bad guys

[@multimediafan6777]

Watch the full Q&A session on the channel it was originally posted on via this link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKGbnJqOZrWCgas

[@carlhicksjr8401]

I mentioned this in Natalie Dormer's interview for Old Oxford, but I'll try to be succinct here. Are you people **nuts** ? I have never understood the fans' reaction to the ending to GoT. Here's why: - GRRM wrote a Gothic tale of murder, degradation, and despair. Every other woman was violated in one fashion or another and anyone with the least shred of honor, morals or principles died... usually with several body parts detached from the still twitching corpse. The only thing missing was the voice of Vincent Price and a cameo by Bella Lugosi. - The only people who could even remotely be called 'good' were a self-confessed pervert dwarf, an emotionally numb cripple, and [to quote Greg Giraldo] 'the fat kid from Stand By Me'. Every single character other than those three were so damaged as to be incapable of normal relationships. - Now, I only got through the first book of ASOIF [I don't much like GRRM's writing style] but as I understand it GoT began to diverge from the books in the 5th Season and when D&D wrote the last season, the final book was still in GRRM's word processing program. So, where the **Hell** do you fans get off in thinking there was gonna be some cop-out sunshine and bunnies Strawberry Shortcake ending? Just who did you think you were watching for almost a decade? Disney? If either GRRM or D&D had written some Pollyanna fantasy of Daeny and Jon getting together [spoiler alert! COUSINS!!!], it would have pure unadulterated bullshit. Don't get me wrong here. I'm not trying squash your happy. I enjoyed GoT just as much as you did. But we got the ending the show deserved. Anything less the brutality we got would have been about as authentic as tears from a Russian pimp.

[@robertw8861]

I think you're confused as to why people didn't like the last few seasons of the show.

[@carlhicksjr8401]

@@robertw8861 I'm aware of why people didn't like Seasons 7 & 8. What I find bizarre is how many people wanted everything to tie up into a nice happy ending in the last episode. Martin wrote a saga where every human crime, fetish, and perversion was almost celebrated, and folks cheered it on like they were watching gladiators for 8 seasons. And then all the sudden, right at the end, they wanted good to triumph over evil, virtue to redeem all that was vice, and the good guys to win. That's what I'm commenting about.

[@KhaledSham]

@@carlhicksjr8401 nah man youre really confused. most people just wanted the show to end the way it was intended by GRRM. he didnt finish the books till this day, which is ofc his fault, but D&D didnt even bother with the writing of the show. anything would have been alot better than what we got in the show. now tell me why exactly do u think people hated the ending?

[@ramixaleandros5893]

He blames twitter/online websites for the entirety of the fandom independently agreeing that the climax of a series they followed religiously for a decade was horrible not necessarily the story but the over rushed pacing and lack of depth? I get he wants to get more work but pelase