[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”20327″ img_size=”711×400″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]If author George R.R. Martin had decided to never sit down and pen the novels that inspired HBO’s Game of Thrones series, we wouldn’t even have an eighth season to rave about. With the series coming to an end, Martin expressed his bittersweet feelings to Rolling Stone magazine:
“You know, it’s complex. I’m a little sad, actually. I wish we had a few more seasons. But I understand. [Showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss] are gonna go on to do other things, and I’m sure some of the actors were signed up for like seven or eight years, and they would like to go on and take other roles. All of that is fair. I’m not angry or anything like that, but there’s a little wistfulness in me.
“It’s weird, in Hollywood, this way … I mean I’ve worked on other shows, you know? Twilight Zone in the mid-’80s, and then Beauty and the Beast for three years… And whenever a show ends, and the longer the show lasts the harder it is. You’re really with a family. You’re with them for a large part of the year, and not only working with them, but you’re often living with them in some distant location where you’re all in one hotel together. You’re seeing them every day, like five days a week, sometimes seven days a week. They’re very intensely involved in your life.
And it’s just a good cast, you know, relationships and friendships develop that are very, very deep. Then it ends, and everybody scatters to the ends of the earth. And a show that’s lasted as long as Game of Thrones, it’s the eighth season but it’s like, what, 10 years they’ve all been together? These young women have grown up together. They’ve become sisters, I think, in more than just the script. And the friendship that they’ve forged, that will endure.”
Martin has played the role of a writer, producer, and more for the HBO series, so it’s easy to see why he would feel the way he does about its ending. Luckily, fans will have a prequel series to enjoy once Game of Thrones ends, though; we all know nothing will truly fill the void in our hearts.
For the recap of the recent episode, click here.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]