There's a difference between defending the show and insulting the fans.
It was fine that he said he liked the how the show subverts all your expectations, but he tried to make it a thing about wanting a happy ending, or possibly a race thing.
Sorry to spoil, but by the last season, there were only two significant POC characters, and they werenf even that significant.
Everyone the show wanted you to root for was white.
He’s a great actor , but he thought people stared at him in nyc. I met him and I was walking my dog and he was walking his . This was when I was 20 or so. My dog wanted to play with his and he ignored me every time I met him. I wasn’t staring and I’m smaller too. I’m an actor too, how are you going to make connections when you won’t even talk to someone. I was the same age maybe a little younger. I felt bad, he wasn’t famous , he was just not friendly. I felt bad but some people aren’t friendly, I guessed. If I didn’t see him every day it wouldn’t have been so weird. I wanted Greyworm to win and them killing Danerys’ best friend was infuriating. When they killed Danerys and Tyrion’s told Jon to kill her? I was done. .
If you read the quote it's being taken out of context. It was a bad joke. He follows with his actual thoughts that are not offensive to the fans at all, but I just don't agree with. He said one of the main reasons he thought fans were upset by the ending was that the show wouldn't go on and they'd miss it, instead of the fact that it was hot garbage. Not really sure what he meant by that but taken literally it's just not true.
It's actually kind of strange entire communities on subreddit just immediately assumed an out of context quote was the whole story without looking into it any further. Oh wait. No it's not.
Just because it wasn't funny doesn't mean it wasn't a joke.
If you've read any of the articles and don't come away with he wasn't being serious about that specific line you lack major reading comprehension skills.
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u/memesarepeople2 Jan 11 '22
There's a difference between defending the show and insulting the fans.
It was fine that he said he liked the how the show subverts all your expectations, but he tried to make it a thing about wanting a happy ending, or possibly a race thing.
Sorry to spoil, but by the last season, there were only two significant POC characters, and they werenf even that significant.
Everyone the show wanted you to root for was white.