The ‘Game Of Thrones’ Showrunners Are No Longer Attending The Show’s Comic-Con Panel

Depending on who you ask, the final season of Game of Thrones was either not very good or really, really bad. Most of the show’s cast and crew have come to the eighth season’s defense, especially when it comes to how showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss handled it. Even so, fan petitions against, and voluminous complaints about, the pair have dominated the conversation. And sure, Thrones‘ final bow did earn a whopping 32 Emmy Award nominations on Tuesday, but the anger remains.

Which had led some to suspect that Benioff and Weiss’ late-minute decision to skip the Game of Thrones panel at this weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con had something to do with all the ire. As reported by Entertainment Weekly, the show’s official Twitter account announced some late changes to the panel’s lineup late Wednesday. Aside from the two showrunners, director Miguel Sapochnik, and actors Iain Glen and Nathalie Emmanuel are no longer attending. Though Jacob Anderson, John Bradley, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Liam Cunningham, Conleth Hill, Maisie Williams and Isaac Hempstead Wright will still be there.

HBO didn’t give a detailed answer for the change, and a bunch of people being mad online about the final season isn’t necessarily reason enough for Benioff and Weiss to decide to skip out at the last moment. Besides, they did just come into a bunch of Emmy nominations. Regardless, none of this stopped a handful of people — fans, critics and the usual Twitter suspects — from joking about the matter.

(Via Entertainment Weekly)