Three months since Game of Thrones Season 8 ended, the show is still a hot topic. The season finale becomes controversial with the unexpected twists and turns, but fans are still eager to know what will happen with the Stark kids. In different interviews with Kit Harington, who played Jon Snow, and George R.R. Martin, they both saw the finale as freeing for the character and themselves.
In the last scene of the phenomenon television series, Jon returned to the Night's Watch as a punishment for killing Daenerys (Emilia Clarke). He then left Castle Black and headed beyond the Wall with the Free Folk. This sequence posed a lot of questions.
Would Jon have a new mission with the Free Folk? Was he joining them? Or he was leaving the Night's Watch to be with the Wildlings?
It looks like Jon would be joining the Free Folk to live with them after Game of Thrones Season 8. "[S]eeing him go beyond the Wall back to something true, something honest, something pure with these people he was always told he belongs with - the Free Folk - it felt to me like he was finally free," he told The Hollywood Reporter.
Instead of being punished, Jon felt like he was set free for joining the Wildling. Although a lot of fans complained of the conclusion, Harington saw it as a "sweet ending" for his character. "As much as he had done a horrible thing [in killing Daenerys], as much as he had felt that pain, the actual ending for him was finally being released," he added.
Meanwhile, it was not only Jon who felt he was set free when Game of Thrones Season 8 ended. In a different interview with The Guardian, the main brain behind the series, George R.R. Martin, who wrote A Song of Ice and Fire, on which the show is based, also talked about the controversial finale.
At the beginning of Season 6, the time when the HBO series overtook the books, Martin felt that the pressure was impeding his work. The final two installments of the book series, The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring, have yet to be released, although the famed author already hinted it might be dropped in 2020.
Martin didn't think the show was good for him, as it only slowed him down instead of speeding him up. But now Game of Thrones Season 8 ended, it was a freeing feeling for him, as he is now at his own pace. "I have good days, and I have bad days, and the stress is far less, although it's still there," he explained.
