After largely keeping their heads down following the disastrous final season of Game of Thrones, showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss have popped up for a bizarre Q&A so tone-deaf many initially believed it was satire.
The pair pulled out of a Game of Thrones panel at the San Diego Comic-Con in the wake of the backlash to season eight of the show, which was widely panned by fans and critics and saw more than 1.75 million people sign a petition calling for a remake "with competent writers".
While they controversially scored big at last month's Emmy Awards, Benioff and Weiss have largely avoided addressing the fan reaction or answering questions; before the finale, they vowed to spend it "very drunk and far away from the internet".
That is, until now. They were awarded 2019 Outstanding Television Writer at the Austin Film Festival on Saturday — and afterwards sat down with AFF executive director Barbara Morgan to take questions from the audience.