The Game of Thrones fandom has no limits.
Lost creator Damon Lindelof has been speaking to Entertainment Weekly. He told them that he is a big fan of the show:
"I don’t watch television to find things to gripe about, and I think we live in a clickbait-y media culture that exists to pick things apart. I love-watching Game of Thrones, so I’m immensely forgiving of things that perhaps are not the strongest attributes of the show. And despite the fact that George R. R. Martin has flamed the Lost finale, there is a schadenfreude aspect of me saying, 'Well, I kind of hope Game of Thrones sucks at the end, too, so they’ll know it feels to have somebody say that to you.' But I don’t think the Lost finale sucks. And I want Game of Thrones to end awesome, because I’m a huge fan, and I have every reason to believe that it is going to end awesomely."
He also gave his thoughts on the death of Jon Snow:
"But when you are in the zeitgeist, and when you are loved, there’s this part of it—people threaten to stop watching, people say 'it’s not as good as it used to be,” people say, 'If you kill this character, I will stop watching the show.' One of the things that people fell in love with about Thrones was its willingness to kill anyone—but you can’t kill Jon Snow, you know? And it’s like: 'But I thought you loved the show because we killed Ned Stark! He was the un-killable character!' So we have to be willing to do that."
It has been said that some episodes of Game of Thrones, and indeed, other TV series' have a few 'filler' episodes before the real action kicks off in a season. Lindelof believes that every episode is necessary:
"As a storyteller, if you can make one, let alone two, excellent hours of television a season if you’re doing eight or 10 episodes—an excellent episode by all accounts—I think what people don’t realize is that in order to produce those excellent episodes, there have to be episodes that set that up. There also have to be episodes that begin to—although this is never a storyteller’s intent—make [the viewer] go, 'I don’t know, I don’t know about this…' That makes those excellent episodes all the more special. And when I was watching [episode 8] 'Hardhome' this season, I was just like, 'That’s one of the most excellent hours of television I’ve ever seen.' You only need to demonstrate excellence once a season for me to view the entire season as excellent, or the entire show as excellent. And Game of Thrones is able to do it at any one time."
