Although Game of Thrones is currently a huge hit with viewers and critics and has just been renewed, Peter Dinklage admits that there are challenges ahead.

Speaking to the Hero Complex, Dinklage says that he is very aware of the pressure from fans:

There’s so much pressure to, in terms of this genre, make it bigger. There’s all this talk about, ‘We want more battles!’ and there’s so many fan sites. And the show is based on a very successful series of novels [by George R.R. Martin] and so there was so much anticipation for it — and so much pressure put on it. [But] you have to block all of that out and tell the really smart story that was told by George and not try to take on too much that takes the [priorities] in other directions.

He also admits that the show could be facing trouble down the line:

With a lot of shows, what you’ll see happen is they start off really well and they’re very original, but they become sort of a version of themselves. They stand outside the show … they become a cliche of the show they once were. That’s the whole ‘jumping the shark‘ thing.

But he’s not too worried at the moment:

We’re too young [as a series] to be even thinking about that [pitfall] … it’s up to the writers to give us good stories to tell and David Benioff and Dan Weiss are so good at that and I think they will continue to do great things. Knock on wood.

Do you agree with Dinklage that there is a danger of Game of Thrones jumping the shark?