Game Of Thrones Star Is Still Upset Over The Final Season
Fans everywhere are still salty about Game of Thrones’ abysmal last season, and Conleth Hill is no different. In fact, the actor, who played professional schemer Varys on the HBO series for eight seasons, has even more reason to be upset over the widely maligned Season 8 than most fans. They only had to watch Season 8: Conleth had to be a part of it.
“I just felt frustrated with the last couple of series because Varys wasn’t the all-knowing character he had been.”
Conleth Hill
According to a recent interview with The Times UK, Hill is still bothered by the final season of Game of Thrones over four years later—though his initial frustrations with the show began the season prior. “I just felt frustrated with the last couple of series because Varys wasn’t the all-knowing character he had been,” Conleth told the Times, referring to the spymaster’s uncanny ability to know what was going on with everyone everywhere and at all times.
The actor admitted that prior to Season 7, he had no problems with Game of Thrones whatsoever. “Right up until the last two series, I had no complaints at all,” said Hill after confessing that he thought maybe he had done something wrong to upset the show’s creators.
The actor went on to give a more pragmatic explanation for GOT’s noticeable decline over its last two seasons, blaming the shift in quality on the show’s writers and HBO execs butting heads over how to end the fantasy series.
Between the rush to end Game of Thrones and the resulting subpar episodes, Conleth Hill painfully admits that he was inconsolable following the series finale. “Now, I’m fine about it,” said the actor, sounding anything but. The Times interview isn’t the first time the actor has expressed his frustration with the way Vary’s was written during the series declining years.
During the Game of Thrones Season 8 table read, the actor looked visibly distraught when reading his character’s death scene, going so far as to push the script aside once he was finished reading his part.
“Right up until the last two series, I had no complaints at all.”
Conleth Hill
Conleth Hill’s complaint about Varys losing his omniscience during the last two seasons of Game of Thrones is understandable. Introduced at the beginning of the series as the “Master of Whisperers,” Varys made use of a widespread network of spies and informants to help him influence events in both Westeros and the neighboring Essos. During Seasons 7 and 8, however, Varys suddenly knew nothing about major events and had little influence over those he was aware of.
Hill’s claim that the last season was rushed is also valid. Featuring only six episodes rather than the usual 10, Game of Thrones Season 8 had a limited time in which to wrap up several series-long character arcs, inevitably leaving fans—and the cast—unsatisfied with their resolutions.
While some blame can surely be attributed to the show’s writers clashing with the suits at HBO as Hill surmised, most of the blame for Game of Thrones’ lackluster final seasons falls on the creator of Westeros, George R. R. Martin.
During the Game of Thrones Season 8 table read, the actor looked visibly distraught when reading his character’s death scene, going so far as to push the script aside once he was finished reading his part.
Martin’s inability to finish his A Song of Ice and Fire series by the time HBO’s Game of Thrones caught up to the books it was based on forced the show’s writers to scramble and come up with their own conclusion to a story they didn’t begin.
The author has delayed the release of his latest chapter in the Game of Thrones saga, The Winds of Winter several times since its original intended release, sometime in 2012 to the point where Martin is now better known for his procrastination than his actual written work.
Conleth Hill will hopefully receive a better sendoff for his character in Martin’s final two Game of Thrones novels—provided of course, George R. R. Martin actually finishes them. Until then the actor—and GOT fans everywhere—are stuck with the ending they were given by HBO.
