Following the finale to Game of Thrones, it seemed that pretty much everybody was angry. The loudest voice, of course, came from fans, whose outrage at the last season ranged from tame to extreme--but frustration also came from stars, as demonstrated this week by Alfie Allen, who revealed the one finale reaction which “pisses” him off.
In an interview with Deadline, Allen, who played series mainstay Theon Greyjoy, shared that he's frustrated with the harassment not of showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss nor the show's stars, but instead of the behind-the-scenes workers.
“What pisses me off, though, is when you see people like the camera operators, who are the best in the world—people behind the scenes who break their backs for this show—who are then getting trolled online by people,” he said. “I can’t even delve into that world too much, for my own sanity. But to read all that stuff… People laying into the DPs. It blows my mind.”
Allen also remarked that, to some extent, he expected frustration with the series’ conclusion. “I think we’ve seen it before, in other shows that have been massive, where people didn’t agree with how things ended. Where people are like, “This is not really feeding what I need anymore.” So inevitably, that was going to happen,” he said, adding that, in his opinion, the finale “rounded up all those relationships, and of course people will be unhappy to leave them.”
We’re inclined to agree with Allen--a show with as much hype as Game of Thrones was bound to disappoint with its conclusion in some way. What’s totally unacceptable, though, is the harassment of people behind the camera who likely didn't have much say in the plot points of Season 8.