SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details from Sunday’s Game of Thrones Season seven finale. Continue at your own peril.
The season seven finale of “Game of Thrones” had fans dead-lifting their jaws from the floor and star Kit Harington is one of those fans.
“I think it’s one of the best episodes of ‘Game of Thrones’ I’ve seen,” the face of Jon Snow told Deadline of Sunday’s finale. “It’s got a bit of everything, it fits with the season, and it also fits with ‘Thrones’ in general, and I love it.”
Harington described 2018’s upcoming final season as a culmination of everything that’s happened the last seven seasons. “What I think will happen I think it’s got to end with some serious fighting,” he continued. “You have to presume that that Army of the Dead is going to take a little while to get south, but we just don’t know. So it’s a hell of an ending because it’s the thing that we’ve all been waiting for, they’re now south of the Wall.”
Facebook, Twitter and Imgur — among other social media websites — were flooded with fan shock to Sunday’s nearly one-and-a-half hour episode. Even the King of the North was blown away by the penultimate season finale.
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Harington described the show’s tense arena negotiation as his favourite scene of the episode: “…Being in that dragon pit and everyone being there just facing each other, like every character. I say, it’s more for us as actors with every actor in the series that we’d ever thought about working with.”
“You have to try and remember that a lot of these people knew each other by rumour, but had never met,” he reminded. “So I, or Jon Snow, had no idea what Cersei looks like… well, I had from the first episode of the first season, but no idea how she is, how she interacts, how she works. So that was a major thing for the episode and the series.”
He also highlights Snow’s scene with Theon Greyjoy as his favourite individual moment. “…My favourite moment really in the episode, just on a personal level, was getting to work with Alfie Allen again and do the scene with Theon where they meet in the Dragonstone throne room,” he explained. “I love that scene because I love what Alfie does with his character.”
“I’ve loved his journey this season,” he praised. “I think that’s just really interesting to look at how those characters and the journeys they’ve been on since they interacted in that first season. Now here they are as men, and what’s changed, and what they’ve been through, and I think was a really interesting thing to play with me for and Alfie.”
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So how does Harington feel about his tenure on “Game of Thrones” coming to a close after the show ends its run next year? “It’s been on my mind a lot recently, obviously, and it’s kind of very much in my consciousness and I think in my subconsciousness. I’m already feeling very emotional about it,” he confessed.
After all, it is easy to forget that “Game of Thrones” is Snow’s first professional acting credit.”This is beyond what many actors experience in their lifetime, a kind of phenomenon like this, and I experienced right at the start of my career,” he added. “I think I just want to do a really good job in the final season. I want to finish it well. That’s what I care about right now.”
In fact, eight seasons is just enough for Harington: “I think if it had ended this season, it would feel too short. I think if it went on any more seasons, I would be sick of it. To me, now, it feels like the right amount of time for a show like this and the right amount of time for this kind of job. So I’m just looking forward to getting stuck in it for the final season. I know I’m going to have a ton of fighting. I’m sure I will, and I love that, so I’m going to really get stuck into that and do it and enjoy being knackered every day.”
Ultimately, Harington hopes fans will enjoy the intense pace of seasons seven and eight. “I hope that instead of it being a slow roller coaster, I think that they’ll have enjoyed the pace that it’s picked up on, and then they’ll now know what they’re in for for the last one… It had to end on this massive level.”