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‘Game of Thrones’ star Kit Harington says series finale was ‘honest to the characters’

“Game of Thrones” star Kit Harington trusts the series finale — which isolated and angered numerous fans of the HBO hit — was an honest depiction of what might occur in Westeros, regardless of its issues.

He explicitly defended Daenerys Targaryen’s character arc going from beloved heroine to “Mad Queen” as being unworthy of the feminist criticism it’s received.

“One of my worries with this is we have Cersei and Dany, two leading women, who fall,” Harington, who starred as Jon Snow, told Entertainment Weekly. “The justification is: Just because they’re women, why should they be the goodies? They’re the most interesting characters in the show. And that’s what ‘Thrones’ has always done.”

He included, “You can’t just say the strong women are going to end up the good people. Dany is not a good person. It’s going to open up discussion but there’s nothing done in this show that isn’t truthful to the characters. And when have you ever seen a woman play a dictator?”

The 32-year-old actor likewise clarified that he trusts that when Jon Snow kills Daenerys that it was a forgiving act and that it broke Snow’s heart to do it.

“This is the second woman he’s fallen in love with who dies in his arms and he cradles her in the same way,” he said. “That’s an awful thing. In some ways, Jon did the same thing to Ygritte by training the boy who kills her. This destroys Jon to do this.”

Emilia Clarke, notwithstanding, doesn’t exactly purchase Harington’s justifications for his actions.

She kidded to Entertainment Weekly of Jon Snow, “Um, he just doesn’t like women does he? He keeps f—king killing them!”

Hilda Garner has done her majors in journalism from Michigan. Her younger sister is also a successful writer, and the rivalry between the two is legendary. Since becoming a full-time writer, Hilda has published several books. She is currently working as a freelance writer on residentweekly.com.
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