Obviously someone, somewhere, is going to be let down by the Game of Thrones finale because it doesn't fit with their painstakingly pieced-together theory of how the whole thing's going to play out. That's fine. Nobody cares.

However, showrunners DB Weiss and David Benioff have told Entertainment Weekly that they thought Kit Harington absolutely hated the scripts he'd been sent and was having a big strop over what they'd done to Jon Snow.

The whole process of sending the scripts sounds like a bit of an ordeal in itself. "We knew exactly when our script coordinator sent them out," Benioff says. "We knew exactly what minute they sent them. And then you’re just waiting for them to email."

It was a fraught time, Weiss remembers. "Why aren’t they writing? Does that mean they like it? Does that mean they hate it?"

Benioff says Sophie Turner was the first to get in touch after finishing them - "she gets credit for racing through all six scripts in like an hour or something" - but the radio silence from Harington in particular was terrifying.

"F***. Does he hate it?," Weiss remembers thinking. "If he hates it, does that mean we got it wrong? We spent a lot of time thinking about his character."

Then came the day of the first table read with the full cast. "We saw him on the day of the table read and said: 'So?'", Weiss remembers. "And he’s like, 'Oh, I haven’t read it. I want to experience it the first time in this room.'" That realisation was, he says, "a huge relief".

Harington was right about the table read too - it "ended up being really fun," Benioff adds. Which is nice!