whatever helps you sleep at night :/...... what a mess that final season was :(

She's on record for hating the final season also - her reactions when asked about it say enough. She's secretly happy she was not forced to pretend the last season was amazing.

Honestly the show had problems from around the 3rd/4th season and what occured was the culmination of those.

The season was definitely disappointing, but there was some greatness sprinkled in there as well. Felt very rushed ofc, but I reallllly liked her performance throughout it and can't wait to see her in more films now that GoT is done.

She’s not wrong... there has to be a lot of love involved for people to throw the kind of anger they did. I suppose it’s less flattering if it’s book fans who hated it, since their love didn’t originate with the show’s work, but I think the show people won enough fans to take some decent credit.

I didn’t hate it myself, as I wasn’t a person who had strong opinions about what “should” have happened, but even I found the execution to be clunky.

Regardless of how you felt about that last season, she really stepped it up acting wise.

Emilia Clarke gets it. Meanwhile, Sophie Turner is out here calling fans disrespectful for hating on the final season.

wait a minute... "the last 4 years before"? okay I'd picked up on the fact over the years that the series had nailed the Best Drama trophy more than once (I barely ever pay much attention to that stuff and literally watching the broadcast, frankly I can't fathom how anyone does, and that's even just the awards itself, not all the red carpet bullshit), but I had no clue those times were in each of the 4 previous seasons.
wow.
So, the FIRST 4 seasons of Game Of Thrones legitimately stack up with pretty much among the superior of any other television in the history of the medium, but they wound up winning the trophy for none of *that*, but for what sure as hell seem to be majority-wise deemed the 'lesser' span of the show. Mind you, I say that even with the qualifier that there are plenty of different little details and moments across season 5 (including arguably the single best ep of the series with "Hardhome"), and while that s6 may generally be considered by most fans to be weaker in the wake of s1-4, but it's the standout from s5-8. Also, I say all this while most definitely NOT being among the "worst. ending. ever! and retroactively wasted the last decade of my life!" crowd when regarding s8 as a whole. Trust me I've got no shortage of issues with it but even throughout s8 there were several things I really dug, while I would classify myself as "disappointed" with the final season, it by no means destroyed the entire thing for me and that I'll never watch a Thrones ep again.

But really, if this going down doesn't demonstrate fairly clearly that the very concept of awards shows for artistic endeavors is just beyond silly.
but this is Hollywood we're talking about, we all know the act of patting yourself on the back ain't going anywhere anytime soon lol