‘Game of Thrones’ star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau booed at Comic-Con

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‘Game of Thrones’ star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau booed at Comic-Con

By Nick Reilly

 

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister in 'Game of Thrones'. Credit: HBO Credit: HBO
 

Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau reportedly faced an unexpected backlash as he was booed by fans at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend.

 

The actor, who plays Jaime Lannister, was joined by stars including Isaac Hempstead Wright and Maisie Williams as they discussed the huge backlash faced by Thrones’ final season – which proved to be extremely divisive among fans.

 

According to fans in attendance, Nikolaj was booed by members of the audience when he described Jaime and Cersei’s death, which saw them die in each others arms – buried under the rubble in the crypt under the Red Keep.

 

This comes after star Conleth Hill responded to the backlash levelled at the show’s final season at Comic Con, calling it a “media-led hate campaign”.

Full Story: https://www.nme.com/news/tv/game-of-thrones-star-nikolaj-coster-waldau-booed-at-comic-con-2531274

[Emdog]

Idiots. He is an actor, he does what the script indicates. If they need to boo someone, try the writers next time.

[Skeptic7]

555 They sure take their fictional entertainment seriously!  ????

[spidermike007]

I did enjoy season one through five. Outstanding production, great characters, and good writing. But, season six and seven kind of went off the rails. Season eight was drivel. It appeared they had no idea where to take the story, and it was convoluted, and silly. The silliest part was the war with the undead. Dumb and dumber. And then the new Queen Deanerys Targaryen turns out to be a pathological, homicidal maniac, after finding out she her claim to the throne, is illegitimate. Bizarre. 

 

I kind of get why the fans would have been furious at Jamie's character, after he went back to try to save the evil queen Cersei. It seemed his character had turned a corner, and then? She was a bad egg. I was rather happy when they were buried. The show made a habit of killing off the good people, which was annoying, and refreshing at the same time. So, it was fun to see a few evil people die for a change!

 

I enjoyed the show. Last few seasons less, but still fun. But I never got really caught up in it. It was just entertainment. But, I know some younger folks, who knew the show and the characters like a course study. It was bizarre to talk to them about the show. It was like they thought the characters were real. 

 

Conleth Hill completely missed the point, to call this a media led hate campaign. I would call it a fan led hate campaign, and they were rightfully disappointed at how the producers allowed the show to go so far off the rails in the last season. 

 

The anticipation of season eight was intense. What can one even say?

Edited July 23, 2019 by spidermike007

[BritManToo]

8 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

I know some younger folks, who knew the show and the characters like a course study. It was bizarre to talk to them about the show. It was like they thought the characters were real. 

Never met a guy that's getting laid regularly to behave like that.

Many younger men who are denied sex become strange.

They become obsessed by historical fantasy.

Edited July 23, 2019 by BritManToo

[spidermike007]

53 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Never met a guy that's getting laid regularly to behave like that.

Many younger men who are denied sex become strange.

They become obsessed by historical fantasy.

True. And I hear that the millennials are having less sex, than any generation before it. Poor kids. It is a bizarre phenomenon, and one that cannot be healthy for society. It leads to obsessions with shows like Game of Thrones! I am sure some of it has to do with "me too", but this has been going on for awhile now. My guess is that most are very sexually active from about 13 to 15, to about 22. Then it all stops. 

 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living-single/201811/7-reasons-why-young-people-are-having-less-sex

 

For me, the priority right now is figuring out my own life. I usually don’t have the patience for small talk, and I don’t really have any time for hookups let alone a committed relationship. So it just doesn’t happen. I’m less interested than ever in finding someone else. Building my career is a lot more of a priority, and the relationships I do put energy into are amazing friendships—that’s worth so much more than a one night stand. Maybe millennials are just more caught up trying not to be broke. —Keiver, 25

 

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvqbmv/we-asked-millenials-why-young-people-are-having-less-sex

 

 

Edited July 23, 2019 by spidermike007

[BritManToo]

6 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

True. And I hear that the millennial are having less sex, than any generation before it. It is a bizarre phenomenon, and one that cannot be healthy for society. It leads to obsessions with shows like Game of Thrones!

 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living-single/201811/7-reasons-why-young-people-are-having-less-sex

 

For me, the priority right now is figuring out my own life. I usually don’t have the patience for small talk, and I don’t really have any time for hookups let alone a committed relationship. So it just doesn’t happen. I’m less interested than ever in finding someone else. Building my career is a lot more of a priority, and the relationships I do put energy into are amazing friendships—that’s worth so much more than a one night stand. Maybe millennials are just more caught up trying not to be broke. —Keiver, 25

 

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvqbmv/we-asked-millenials-why-young-people-are-having-less-sex

 

 

The reason young western men are having less sex is easily explained.

Our governments have replaced us, they provide all the money/food/protection/housing women need, in the form of welfare or 'bogus' employment.

In the past women needed men or they didn't survive the violence and poverty.

Now, if they want kids, they only need a man once or twice.

Edited July 23, 2019 by BritManToo

[Megascott]

Let's face it, everyone watching the last episode for the first time waited and waited for Jaime to kill Cersei...and they ended up dying in each others arms...pitiful. 

[canuckamuck]

The acting was great and I could never blame the cast, or anyone else in the production. It was all top drawer. 

It was the writers alone that late that turd.

The main writers D&D are to blame, as well as George R R Martin who wrote books. Martin hasn't finished a book in the series since before the TV show began. He ran out of gas and left the fate of his iconic TV series in the hands of lesser minds.

And D&D were simply bored with the project, most likely because it was over their heads to make it work. They refused to commit to the time needed to make it to an organic ending. And they just worked backwards from the ending to make all the pieces end up where George had hinted they would go. All the great brilliant characters became foolish and their choices were just to satisfy moving pieces on the board.

And apparently the greatest asset of a king is having great stories to tell. Bran the Broken, who never helped out or seemed to give a crap about anyone is now the king of everything, because the prisoner on trial, at his trial (Tyrion) said so. 

Vomitous.

 

[BritManToo]

4 minutes ago, canuckamuck said:

And apparently the greatest asset of a king is having great stories to tell. Bran the Broken, who never helped out or seemed to give a crap about anyone is now the king of everything, because the prisoner on trial, at his trial (Tyrion) said so. 

Vomitous.

 

Bit like a country we know quite well.

Edited July 23, 2019 by BritManToo

[connda]

10 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Conleth Hill completely missed the point, to call this a media led hate campaign. I would call it a fan led hate campaign, and they were rightfully disappointed at how the producers allowed the show to go so far off the rails in the last season. 

Seven years of plot development and 1 episode to literally burn it all down.  I can understand why fans were disenchanted.  Rightfully so imho.  

[Chrisdoc]

Idiots. He is an actor, he does what the script indicates. If they need to boo someone, try the writers next time.

I think they are complaining about the plot not his character but your comment reminded me of a very sweet old friend of mine who used to play a really nasty lady in a popular Australian soap opera Bellbird. She said people used to come up to her in the supermarket saying she was the nastiest person ever.

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[thaibeachlovers]

23 hours ago, Emdog said:

Idiots. He is an actor, he does what the script indicates. If they need to boo someone, try the writers next time.

They were sending the message to the writers who probably were not there. Probably hiding out somewhere in fear for their lives by outraged GOT fans.

That scene was terrible. The way it should have gone down was Arya sticking the pointy end into Cersie's eyes and letting her go free and blind. That would have been justice. He should have died up in the war at Winterfell doing something to atone for being such a bad man.

 

So many really bad things about that last series. Eg, if all the Dothraki died fighting the army of the dead, how come so many of them were still alive in the last episode?

It's like they just got bored with it and wrote any old garbage to end it, no matter how illogical.

[thaibeachlovers]

11 hours ago, connda said:

Seven years of plot development and 1 episode to literally burn it all down.  I can understand why fans were disenchanted.  Rightfully so imho.  

Not one episode- all of them in season 8 were rubbish.

[thaibeachlovers]

19 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

The main writers D&D are to blame, as well as George R R Martin who wrote books. Martin hasn't finished a book in the series since before the TV show began. He ran out of gas and left the fate of his iconic TV series in the hands of lesser minds.

Actually he's been writing other books. Fire and blood is better than the GOT books.

I guess he thought that having done a great job of season 1 to 7 they'd do a good ending, and I bet he's as disappointed as any of us with the result.

 

19 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

Bran the Broken, who never helped out or seemed to give a crap about anyone is now the king of everything, because the prisoner on trial, at his trial (Tyrion) said so. 

Wrong, IMO. He didn't do anything because he knew already how it would turn out.

It wasn't Tyrion that made it happen, IMO, he just pointed out that Bran was the best of a lot of bad choices.

[thaibeachlovers]

20 hours ago, Megascott said:

Let's face it, everyone watching the last episode for the first time waited and waited for Jaime to kill Cersei...and they ended up dying in each others arms...pitiful. 

I was waiting for Arya to kill her. No way Jamie ever would, IMO.

[thaibeachlovers]

Just for interest- Nikolai played a very bad man in a movie called My Name Is Modesty ( made in eastern Europe ). I thought the character was familiar, then I realised who it was.

[canuckamuck]

26 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Actually he's been writing other books. Fire and blood is better than the GOT books.

I guess he thought that having done a great job of season 1 to 7 they'd do a good ending, and I bet he's as disappointed as any of us with the result.

 

Wrong, IMO. He didn't do anything because he knew already how it would turn out.

It wasn't Tyrion that made it happen, IMO, he just pointed out that Bran was the best of a lot of bad choices.

That he was writing prolifically while a his most major project desperately needed his direction was a major failure for him. He let everybody down. I believe he was in to something that grew beyond his ability.

 

Yes we can tell yourself that Bran would have seen the outcome. Even though he could not see the future, only the past and all of the present. But if he did know it was all going to end up, why wasn't that cleverly integrated so we could say, Oh that makes sense. And a writing tactic of having a predetermined outcome, without ever introducing it in some clever or camouflaged form, is actually quite a good way to make the audience feel like, WTH was all that about then. Why have us invest our imaginations into a nothing burger. All the time we were led to believe the fantastic details were leading to some magical coming together of elements and a great reward of the feels. But actually nothing mattered and all the violence and injustice was inconsequential.

We can all write a story about things that didn't matter.

[thaibeachlovers]

2 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

That he was writing prolifically while a his most major project desperately needed his direction was a major failure for him. He let everybody down. I believe he was in to something that grew beyond his ability.

 

Yes we can tell yourself that Bran would have seen the outcome. Even though he could not see the future, only the past and all of the present. But if he did know it was all going to end up, why wasn't that cleverly integrated so we could say, Oh that makes sense. And a writing tactic of having a predetermined outcome, without ever introducing it in some clever or camouflaged form, is actually quite a good way to make the audience feel like, WTH was all that about then. Why have us invest our imaginations into a nothing burger. All the time we were led to believe the fantastic details were leading to some magical coming together of elements and a great reward of the feels. But actually nothing mattered and all the violence and injustice was inconsequential.

We can all write a story about things that didn't matter.

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[thaibeachlovers]

2 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

That he was writing prolifically while a his most major project desperately needed his direction was a major failure for him. He let everybody down. I believe he was in to something that grew beyond his ability.

IMO you put too much on him. He has zero obligation to do anything, except pay taxes, and if he chose to not write more GOT books that's his right. Bad for us, but his choice.

He gave them an outline of the future books to come, and the cock up in season 8 is down to the writers alone ( and perhaps the producers ).

IMO, he just became more interested in other projects, and put GOT aside while he did so. Personally I'm more interested in the sequels to Blood and Fire than GOT, as I found it far more interesting. His scope of imagination is astounding.