Game Of Thrones Wins Outstanding Drama Series At 2019 Emmy Awards

An Emmy win everyone's happy about? Amazing! An Emmy win that sparks mild outrage? Not unheard of, but there's something odd about this reaction when it comes to Game of Thrones. 

Granted, not everyone liked how the series reached its ultimate end, so some viewers at home were angry about Thrones winning Outstanding Drama Series over another show they thought was more deserving. But many more were upset for a much different reason: Game of Thrones' 2019 Emmys win spoiled the ending of the series. 

To honor the series on its near-10-year run on television, the Emmys ceremony played a highlight reel of sorts to commemorate Game of Thrones. Naturally, some clips were taken from the eighth and final season of Thrones, which concluded several months ago. However, just because diehard fans devoured each new episode of the last season as quickly as they could doesn't mean that everyone else did — or that everyone in the world is completely caught up on the show. Such is the case for a number of people, who turned to Twitter to air out their grievances over the 2019 Emmys spoiling the ending of Game of Thrones for them.

One user wrote, "Wow #Emmys that was way too much of a Game of Thrones spoiler I don't care that it's been months that was rude." Another added, "Dang. Huge Game of Thrones spoiler in the #Emmys opener. Guess I won't watch." Someone else was seriously frustrated about the Emmys telecast, tweeting, "And the #Emmys just spoiled a big scene from the last season of Game of Thrones in their opener. So much for spoiler warnings..."

Even actor Ben Schwartz, known for his role on Parks and Recreation, had something to say about the situation: "I haven't seen Game of Thrones yet and have been pretty great at avoiding all spoilers but was just told that by watching the Emmys and seeing two scenes, everything is now ruined for me."

In fairness, we can see both sides of the coin here. It has to be crushing to keep away from spoilers for months — possibly even years — while slowly finishing a show, only to have it spoiled by an awards ceremony. But it also has been six months since Game of Thrones ended, so the Emmys organizers probably thought using final season footage was totally fair game.