Kit Harington Says The Final Seasons Of ‘Game Of Thrones’ Will Be “Very Bleak”, For A Change
Glad to hear they're mixing things up.
We all know that life in Westeros is usually all sunshine and puppies, but according to Kit Harington that could soon be about to change. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, the actor said that while he had not yet received any scripts for the upcoming seventh season, he expected things in the Seven Kingdoms to take a turn for the worse. His exact words: “I think it’s going to get very bleak.”
You know, bleak? Not like an entire family being massacred at a wedding. Or a little girl being burnt at the stake by her own father. Or an entire church-load of people being blown to kingdom come. Or rape and sexual violence being used as window dressing by the writers. No, we’re talking actually bleak.
Why do I still watch this show?
“I think it’s going to get very dark before it gets better,” said Harington. “I think what we might see this season is those White Walkers and that Army of the Dead really come into force. So that’s going to be exciting to see. I don’t know what it means. I think with the whole ‘winter is finally here’ business, it means everyone is going to have a really bad time.”
“A really bad time” sounds like code for “characters you love dying in truly horrific fashion,” and as always there are plenty of candidates. Could Tyrion be dismembered by a Dothraki warrior? Maybe Brienne will be eaten by a dragon, or Sam will get crushed under a giant pile of books? Are any of those direwolves still alive, or did the producers decide they were too expensive to keep in the show? Guess we’ll have to tune in to HBO next year to find out.