The Game of Thrones franchise looked like it could be a one-and-done after the original ended on such a controversially bad note, but that hasn’t been the case. To the contrary, the Game of Thrones brand has bounced back in a big way this year: The new spinoff series A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is an Emmy-nominated hit, while the House of the Dragon Season 3 lifted the show up to new heights of popularity and hype, marking a vast improvement over Season 2.
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In the midst of all that success, HBO has announced several new Game of Thrones projects that are in development. However, one project that fans thought they were going to get still ins’t happening, and the star of that show is speaking up again about that disappointment, and also teasing that all hope may not be lost.
Kit Harington Speaks on Jon Snow’s Cancelled Sequel Series (& If It May Still Happen)
Kit Harington was sitting down with Josh Horowitz for the Happy Sad Confused podcast and was asked to reiterate what happened with his Game of Thrones spinoff show, Snow. Starting development in the early 2020s, it was going to be a sequel series to the original show, which continued Jon Snow’s story. Game of Thrones’ infamous ending saw the series protagonist Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) go mad and become a murderous despot, forcing her lover/nephew, Jon Snow (Harington), to betray and assassinate her before she could take the Iron Throne. Jon ended up leaving Westeros in grief and heading beyond the Wall, where he had once lived amongst the Wildlings in the Free Lands.
That last-minute twist in Jon and Daenerys’s stories stunned and then angered viewers; the backlash was so immense that it stained Game of Thrones‘ reputation forever. The Jon Snow sequel show may have attempted to continue the story too early; that certainly seems to be the sentiment that Kit Harington expresses today:
“Well, we were developing it for two years or so? And I still think there’s a world in which something could work. I wouldn’t have gone into it in the first place if I didn’t. But I was very insistent at the start – and they were as well, HBO and George [R.R. Martin] – of like, ‘If this doesn’t… If we don’t find the right thing, then let’s not do it. It’s much better we don’t. And after a little while of thinking about it, It was kind of me who went, ‘I don’t think this is quite the right time.”
Why Kit Harington Is Ready For A Game of Thrones Return
Behind the scenes, Harington has been forthcoming about his struggles with the explosion in fame he experienced as a result of Game of Thrones. That included anxiety and alcohol abuse, some of it specifically related to how the show ended, and the massive backlash that it received. Since then, he’s done personal work, leaned into fatherhood (alongside his GoT co-star and real-life partner Rose Leslie), and taken on other acting roles to help spread his creative wings. That includes playing Dane Whitman (aka “The Black Knight) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe – a franchise that hasn’t ended up offering a whole lot of opportunity. Now that more time has passed, and Game of Thrones is in a better place as a franchise, Harington seems like he is ready to open the door to Westeros again:
“I’ve gone, and I’ve done all these other things, and now I feel more comfortable with that character and that world again, and where it sits in my life.”
Right now, there is a Game of Thrones stage play (The Mad King) in production, a feature about Aerys Targaryen I’s conquest of Westeros has been announced, while animation guru Genndy Tartakovsky is working on an animated miniseries about the legendary voyages of Lord Corlys Velaryon, aka “The Sea Snake.” The Snow sequel could fit nicely into that lineup, just as HoTD and AKotSK are coming to their ends.
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Forum Conversation: LANTERNS – FINAL EPISODES
Go to ForumThis show is such a mess. This version of Stewart is no Green Lantern either. He’s a frickin VILLAIN! He literally waterboarded a helpless prisoner (torture–doubly so with the ‘water’ tainted to inflict madness); he not only let Hal’s killer get away, scot-free, but her son too, who is the last known Manhunter; he murdered the previous Manhunter/Granny after committing adultery with her multiple times, lying about it too, assaulting THE Green Lantern, Hal, stealing his/Guardian’s ring and lantern; desecrates Hal’s corpse by taking the ring from it; assaults and tortures a helpless prisoner, extorts the prisoner into revealing where the Fear Lantern is at, and then steals that too! Oh, and lets not forget that he lies to the legitimate Green Lantern–Guy–obstructs justice multiple times by hiding the identity/location of Hal’s killer, the identity/location of the Manhunter, and threatens not just Guy but ALL of the other Green Lanterns, and the Guardians! He makes up his own lantern oath, doesn’t even wear a GL outfit, and has no association with either the Guardians or the Lantern corps. He’s a mercenary, a vigilante, a villain–and a damn far cry from any sort of legitimate law enforcement officer, terrestrial or galactic!
Guy Gardner wasn’t afraid of Superman, ready to throw down, but Stewart shuts him up with his what? Blackness? There was no reason Guy shouldn’t have stomped Stewart into the dirt, crushed his finger, took back Hal’s ring for actual decommissioning, destroyed the Fear Lantern and brought Stewart back to OA for sentencing for all of his frickin crimes! This isn’t the incompetent Guy of the cartoons and comics, nor is this the competent Stewart of the cartoons or comics. If this show wasn’t written by woke racists determined to shame and tear down the “greatest” GL to ever exist, then Guy should’ve done the above to this clown pretending he’s a good guy! This show doesn’t deserve a second season, it sure as hell hasn’t earned it! It should be buried and forgotten, along with the rest of this DC nonsense going on! Maybe with the merger done, something can be done to fix this crapfest that is the DC universe but until then, this is best written off and forgotten; a ‘what-if’, oops, that’s Marvel’s thing!
Awful show & even worse viewership
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I really don’t think Hal cloned himself — I think it happened after he was shot — it was right in our face that he healed way too quickly and we just chalked it up to action hero bounce-back. I also don’t think it was Hal that broke out Sinestro — I think it was Lianna. I believe she is a Guardian, but I do not think she is in “good standing”. I think she is doing this all behind the Guardians back and she can do so under the cover of “no one cares about backwater Earth”. Hal hasn’t checked in for over a decade, John’s only contact with the Guardians is Lianna herself, and there is a very legitimate line of thinking that she specifically wanted to experiment with Humans in making them perfect soldiers. A Hal that can be bread to follow orders, and succeed where the Manhunters failed. When that didn’t work out, she broke out Sinestro to overcome the Guardians (or maybe a vain effort to win them over) as they likely align ideologically anyway. Who else told Sinestro about John Stewart, and his potential threat to Hal? Who else COULD have?
It’s right in our faces, plus the Sinestro Corps War hasn’t happened yet… this could be leading to that, and Lianna is one of the fallen Guardians from the comics (Scar, Kronos, or Koyos). They keep telling us about beings that change their shape, and gender — I can see one of those guardians presenting as female so as not to “disturb or upset” Bernadette as she manipulated her into indoctrinating her child to make up for the “shortcomings” of her husband.