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<p>Some people on the internet are not happy about the final season of Game of Thrones. They created a petition <a href="https://www.change.org/p/hbo-remake-game-of-thrones-season-8-with-competent-writers">asking for a remake of Season 8 with new writers</a>. Of course that will never happen. But almost 1.5 million signed the petition, which means it&#8217;s getting attention.</p>
<p>Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa Stark on the award-winning HBO show, told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/arts/television/sophie-turner-sansa-stark.html?smid=tw-nytimesarts&amp;smtyp=cur">The New York Times</a> that the petition is &quot;disrespectful&quot; to everyone who worked so hard for so long to make Game of Thrones over the past decade.</p>
<p>&quot;All of these petitions and things like that&#8211;I think it&#8217;s disrespectful to the crew, and the writers, and the filmmakers who have worked tirelessly over 10 years, and for 11 months shooting the last season,&quot; she said. &quot;Like 50-something night shoots. So many people worked so, so hard on it, and for people to just rubbish it because it&#8217;s not what they want to see is just disrespectful.&quot;</p>
<p>Turner said she&#8217;s not surprised that people got angry on the internet about Game of Thrones.</p>
<p>&quot;People always have an idea in their heads of how they want a show to finish, and so when it doesn&#8217;t go to their liking, they start to speak up about it and rebel,&quot; she said.</p>
<p>The actress added that Game of Thrones has always been a show with &quot;crazy twists and turns,&quot; starting with Season 1, so she doesn&#8217;t understand why people got so upset with how the story went in Season 8. &quot;It shouldn&#8217;t be such a negative thing for fans. It&#8217;s a shock for sure, but I think it&#8217;s just because it hasn&#8217;t gone their way,&quot; she said.</p>
<p>Whatever people thought about Game of Thrones Season 8 and the finale specifically, the show was a massive success for HBO. The finale, &quot;The Iron Throne,&quot; tallied more than <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/game-of-thrones-finale-the-iron-throne-set-a-new-r/1100-6467041/">19 million viewers to set a new record for the show and HBO overall</a>.</p>
<p>For more on Episode 6, check out the show&#8217;s latest coffee cup-style gaffe (this time featuring a pair of <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/game-of-thrones-coffee-cup-20-a-water-bottle-snuck/1100-6467024/">water bottles</a>) and a reminder of <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/game-of-thrones-recap-who-was-that-kid-at-the-coun/1100-6467023/">who was at the council meeting</a> (there were some faces present who we hadn&#8217;t seen in years). For our thoughts on the final episode, check out our <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/game-of-thrones-ending-recap-and-review-a-fitting-/1100-6467022/">&quot;The Iron Throne&quot; review</a>.</p>
<p><em>Source: <a style="text-decoration:none;" href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sophie-turner-slams-the-game-of-thrones-season-8-p/1100-6467080/">GameSpot</a></em></div>
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