Kit Harrington ‘Game of Thrones’ Star Defends Violence

"Games of Thrones" will be back this year and fans are expecting too much from this popular show. Although fans are starting o give and can't stand anymore in terms of the series' brutality and violence, Kita Harrington said that the aggression is not needless and it is needed and actually part of the story.

Jon Snow on screen also said, "I don't see a problem with it because you mostly always feel the consequences of that person dying. In Thrones it's war and awful, awful things happen, as we see on the news daily. And if we've got an appetite for watching these things on the news then you can't shy away from it on cable drama," he further said to Radio Times.

The 28 year old actor also revealed that "Games of the Thrones" is like "Gory as hell and people are always dying around me in Thrones." In the show include a pregnant woman repeatedly stabbed on her stomach; prostitute shot by a crossbow many times; and a man being tortured as well as castrated.

Kit Harrington said that the upcoming season will "phenomenal" because they created the show the right way. "They've built it in the right way - it could have got a lot sillier a lot earlier and it hasn't. It's progressed in the right way story-wise. It's so brilliant this year."

"Game of the Thrones" storyline is in accordance with George RR Martin's novels, the fourth and fifth to be certain for that matter entitled "A Feast for Crows" and "A Dance with Dragons" yet the story plot may turn from Martin's another book series, "A Song of Ice and Fire" respectively.

The "Game of Thrones" season five will be aired during spring, but fans can't wait any longer. HBO will be releasing the special preview with its new footage on Sunday, Feb. 8 entitled "A Day in the Life."

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