Sophie Turner blasts 'disrespectful' petition to remake Game of Thrones finale with 1.3MILLION signatures - and says those behind are angry Daenerys fans who are upset they 'did not get what they want to see'
Sophie Turner has taken aim at 'disrespectful' Game of Thrones viewers who have signed a petition to remake the final season.
The 23-year-old actress blasted fans who 'rubbish it because it's not what they want to see', after the campaign to redo season eight reached more than 1.3million supporters.
Discussing the fate of Daenerys in particular, she told the New York Times that the popular character's dark turn in the final episodes 'shouldn't be such a negative thing for fans'.
Her co-star Kit Harington also came to the show's defense, saying Emilia Clarke's Daenerys had 'done some terrible things' throughout the series and not just at the end.
Firing back: With fans still processing the series finale of Game of Thrones series finale, series star Sophie Turner is taking aim at fans who created a petition to remake the final season
Some disappointed viewers have said they felt Emilia Clarke's character deserved a better ending.
Turner said: 'Daenerys becoming something of the Mad Queen - it shouldn't be such a negative thing for fans. It's a shock for sure, but I think it's just because it hasn't gone their way.
'All of these petitions and things like that - I think it's disrespectful to the crew, and the writers, and the filmmakers who have worked tirelessly over 10 years, and for 11 months shooting the last season.
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'So many people worked so, so hard on it, and for people to just rubbish it because it's not what they want to see is just disrespectful,' she said.
She also mentioned '50-something night shoots', referring to the epic Battle of Winterfell sequence that took 55 nights to film and set a record as the biggest battle sequence in film and television history.
The petition to replace the final season had more than 1,350,000 signatures early on Tuesday morning.
Disrespectful: 'So many people worked so, so hard on it, and for people to just rubbish it because it's not what they want to see is just disrespectful,' said Turner (pictured in role as Sansa Stark)
The petition to remake the final season of Game of Thrones - featuring an image of the Night King - had more than 1.3million supporters by Tuesday morning
Hosted on Change.org, it has the critical title: 'Remake Game of Thrones Season 8 with competent writers'.
Its authors said: 'David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have proven themselves to be woefully incompetent writers when they have no source material (i.e. the books) to fall back on.
'This series deserves a final season that makes sense. Subvert my expectations and make it happen, HBO!'
The series was based on novels by George R.R. Martin but the TV show has outpaced the books, meaning showrunners did not have the same source material to base the final season on.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Kit Harington said some of the audience was 'in denial' about Daenerys.
He said: 'I think it's going to divide. But if you track her story all the way back, she does some terrible things.
'She crucifies people. She burns people alive. This has been building. So, we have to say to the audience: You're in denial about this woman as well.
'You knew something was wrong. You're culpable, you cheered her on.'
King Bran: Sophie Turner, pictured in role as Sansa Stark, came to the show's defense after hundreds of thousands of viewers demanded a remake
In Sunday's final episode Daenerys was stabbed through the heart by Kit Harington's Jon Snow, after she had burned Kings Landing to the ground in a murderous rage in the previous episode.
One viewer said that 'I've always rooted for Daenerys and honestly that season finale broke my heart'.
Another said on Twitter: 'My heart is broken, I demand justice for Daenerys, the only one true character of Game of Thrones'.
'Daenerys deserves so much better. I am so devastated,' posted another.
Before the final episode, writer Stephen King defended the character's storyline, saying: 'I've loved this last season of GoT, including Dani going bugs*** all over King's Landing.
'There's been a lot of negativity about the windup, but I think it's just because people don't want ANY ending. But you know what they say: All good things...'
He went on to praise the show's 'enthralling fantasy and human drama' and called it a 'groundbreaking' series.
Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan said: 'Nothing sums up the snowflake generation more than this ridiculous petition to have the final season rewritten.
'If they don't get what they want, whether it's Trump, Brexit or a TV show, they lie on the floor screaming 'I REFUSE TO ACCEPT THAT - DO IT AGAIN!!!!!'.
Husband and wife: Turner, who recently got married to Joe Jonas in a surprise ceremony in Las Vegas after the Billboard Music Awards, is gearing up for a big movie next month
Turner's own character, Sansa Stark, ended the series as Queen in the North.
She went on: 'People always have an idea in their heads of how they want a show to finish, and so when it doesn't go to their liking, they start to speak up about it and rebel.'
Defending the show, she said there had 'always been crazy twists and turns' since the first season, beginning with Ned Stark's beheading.
Turner also addressed the surprise reveal that her character's brother Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright) was named the new king of Westeros.
She admitted it was 'unexpected', but insisted it 'made a lot of sense' and said she believed Bran would be an 'incredibly fair ruler'.
Turner, who recently got married to Joe Jonas in a surprise ceremony in Las Vegas after the Billboard Music Awards, is gearing up for a big movie next month.
The actress returns as Jean Grey in 20th Century Fox's highly-anticipated X-Men: Dark Phoenix, which is slated to hit theaters June 7.
She also stars in Broken Soldier, alongside Ray Liotta, which doesn't have a release date at this time.
George R.R. Martin has also offered his thoughts on the finale, saying cryptically: 'How will it all end? I hear people asking. The same ending as the show? Different? Well… yes. And no. And yes. And no. And yes. And no. And yes.'
Coming soon: The actress returns as Jean Grey in 20th Century Fox's highly-anticipated X-Men: Dark Phoenix, which is slated to hit theaters June 7
