Jeremy Foley, Filmmaker/Actor/Screenwriter: Oh man, no the Red Wedding was in [episode] three.
I can’t put that last. Oh boy! People will never forgive me.
Film Courage: Do you have a strong opinion about what happened with Game of Thrones, Jeremy?
Jeremy: Yes, I do have a strong opinion. I think it was amazing, I loved it.
It’s funny because I’ve just re-watched it actually, the entire thing. Sara my
writing partner/producing partner and I were huge fans and it’s just excellent. It’s like nothing
I’ve ever really seen on television before and I thought the finale, especially on a re-watch,
was awesome. I could actually track…I know a lot of people were upset that
I think the controversy was the character Daenerys wouldn’t have retaliated exactly the way she did
but if you watch (and because we just did this) if you watch all the seasons back-to-back you
can really see her aggression was always there but people were keeping her in check
and then finally she just released it all. I thought it was great. I love Game of Thrones.
Film Courage: So the ending was satisfying to the two of you?
Jeremy: The ending was completely satisfying for us yeah we loved it I know a lot of people
had their misgivings but I think if people it's difficult because how can you please everybody
who watched it and and people loved it so much I loved it so much that it's it's really hard to
I totally understand that I meet everyone's expectations but I think on the re-watch
it it really is even better do you wish that George RR Martin had completed
all of the books beforehand did you notice a difference in the writing style so actually
i'd never read any of the books so I don't know I've only been a fan of the television series
and I always loved the writing in that I do know that people said I think some people I
knew had read some of the books but I've actually never read any of them so I'm still a fan
in the end do you think any mistakes were made with the final season I do think
the final season obviously was so big I mean every episode was I think what 90 minutes long maybe
but again just it's all fresh in my mind because I just saw them all but
I think every episode was just so huge and and had so many battle sequences and just just really
big production stuff I think there was what seven episodes and so maybe if they could have
had like maybe two or three more episodes two more episodes um maybe it would have helped people feel
a little more um like like the character of Daenerys had had had a little bit more of an
arc which I think people were reacting to so I think I think they could have done that but for
the seven episodes and for how big they were and for just what a spectacle like they were amazing
the battles and the the final battle at Winterfell there
it was like the best television I’d ever seen so I loved it I thought it was great and
now it totally satisfied me so the first time the two of you watched the entirety of the of the
different seasons when you went to twitter and you saw some of the outrage from the fans
what was your thought I just thought when I went to after we had watched the finale
and we looked on twitter and saw people were outraged I was a little
I was a little bit shocked actually because it's just like
had been such an amazing show the entire time and I just felt like people were kind of like
not taking all of that into consideration but I think again you it's impossible to
please everybody and it's impossible to please everybody on twitter the the the outrage and and
I thought it was just excellent I think people were overreacting and again I think if people
watch it again and even watch the entire series I think the the signs and the clues to what they
were reacting against were really always there um and it's hard because game of thrones there would
be these huge gaps between seasons I remember like what was it like a year or a year and a half even
so it's that's a long time and I think you maybe you people would just maybe forget or just
just weren't remembering exactly but if you watch them all back to back I think I think
all the signs were there so if you keep with the theme of can't please everybody of course
what is your thought of of when a fandom has so much opinion or or emotion over the outcome
of what a creator does or doesn't do gosh it's so hard to say I think
it it is interesting to see especially in our world with social media how like the the
reactions of the fans can actually affect the final product of a film I mean that's
we've never seen that before right like not to my knowledge I don't think there was ever anything
in the past where the the public would have as big of a voice as they're having now because of
all this the twitter and facebook and whatever else um I i don't know how to feel about it I
mean it's it's a very interesting thing where it's like in some cases I think it probably has
helped and in some cases I'm sure it's hurt um but but I know like for instance there was the
um the sonic the hedgehog movie and like people were were really criticizing the design of the
first character and they modified it and adjusted it and the second one and
the second one looked great I thought so maybe that was a good thing and then I know there are
like there's also the outrage of like a show like game of thrones where I thought it was
really excellent and I thought that it had been such a awesome viewing experience and awesome
for an audience for like seven seasons and then people were just upset and I just like
I don't know I don't think sometimes people are taking into consideration
everything that came before it and they're just reacting on literally what they saw an hour ago
Jeremy is there any way you could rank the seasons of game of thrones from let's say the best season
to the worst season sure so if I had to rank the game of thrones seasons highest to lowest um and
I'm a fan of them all I would start with season six which I believe had the battle of the bastards
and Daenerys crossing this the the narrow sea at the end of the season so six would be my highest
probably seven and then probably eight because I do like towards the end there
where everything was really ramping up and the stories were kind of tying up and so like
there was there was a lot of consequences a lot of stakes for everybody I mean there was there was a
lot going on so I think those three six top then seven then eight and then I mean I like them all
five I think is where Jon Snow got killed so I really like five so I think six seven eight five
one two three because I gotta go with one since like that's what kicked everything off so that
that'll go up there so yes six seven eight five one two oh wait I missed five six seven eight five
four one two three that's my ranking so the sixth season sixth season is your favorite yeah
i'll do six season at the top okay then season seven then season eight then season five season
four and then season one two and three and why three if you had to choose your least why is it
last one oh yeah we can give me a second okay I'm sort of guessing on those last lines oh no okay
I don't want to wait wait let me see let me see well
The fourth one let me see Oathbreaker these are all great
Oh man, no the Red Wedding was in [episode] three. I can’t put that last.
Oh boy! People will never forgive me.
Yeah that's very really funny I can't do that so okay so my ranking would be season
six at the top season seven season eight season five season four season three
season one and then season two at the bottom so two was the least favorite I think two would be my
least favorite although I still totally enjoyed it um maybe because things were still
getting going I gotta put one up there because that's really what kicked off the entire season
or the entire series I should say and then um yeah so maybe maybe season two would be my least
favorite but I still love them all big fan so even though you'd never read the books the the
series started you heard word of mouth what was about the world the world building that you loved
yeah it's interesting like we when we started watching it I hadn't ever read the books
I just think it was very unique of course it was like
I think that's that's what I really seized on maybe like there were like sort of like
things like a medieval mythology like dragons and I think those things were like alluded to but like
there were still things about it that like it just felt new to me like there were obviously like
characters not behaving in ways that I've sort of had seen before um
they were kind of like really like sort of like kind of like mature themes in this sort of that
in this sort of like a medieval show or like that sort of had those elements but there was like very
mature themes in it which I was like whoa like I haven't I don't think I had seen that before
um and yeah like a lot of the characters seemed very fresh very new I thought again all of the the
dialogue was really like really like layered and really complex but also at times could be really
like kind of funny kind of sharply funny or like humorous um so it just felt like really like fresh
something like really that I i felt like i'd never seen anything that tackled it quite like that.
Question For The Viewers:
How would
you rank Game Of Thrones seasons from best to worst?