As the old adage goes: “it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.” In that case, Game of Thrones is destroying all of the good will it’s built up over the years with a horrendous conclusion. Season eight of the hit HBO show is proving so disastrous that fans are taking to the Internet to demand that the network rewrite and reshoot the last six episodes.
The idea may sound silly, but the online petition has already been signed by over four hundred thousand people. Most of those signatures have come within the last 24 hours, meaning that it’s very possible that the amount of signees could eclipse a million by the end of the week.
The criticism of last episode in particular was so bad that fans of another popular series are starting to fear for the future of their beloved franchise. Game of Thrones co-creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are writing several new Star Wars movies, which is giving many devotees of the intergalactic space films a lot to worry about.
While HBO will almost certainly not put any stock into this petition, it does show how the writers seem to really have bungled what could have been an iconic ending to one of the most popular events in the history of television. There’s still one more episode to go before the series is over so there is a chance that the show can redeem itself before its too late.
Amid all of this controversy, one thing is certainly for sure: if fans are reacting this viscerally to the Game of Thrones finale, it’s a good thing the Internet wasn’t as big when The Sopranos came to an end. That petition could have ended up breaking the web once and for all.
The Game of Thrones finale airs this Sunday on HBO at 9 PM ET.
from We Got This Covered http://bit.ly/2JqDe3l
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