I can't see Maekor being ambitious or calculating enough to kill his brother for the crown.
Epilogue episodes are always a nicer way to end the season. Really enjoyed it.
Game of Thrones spinoff A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight ordered to HBO series
Epilogue episodes are always a nicer way to end the season. Really enjoyed it.
Great finale. Hit me in "the feels" severl times, which is the only nice place to be hit.
I think it's still ambiguous. Arlan could have knighted him after he woke up again. I wonder if his "a true knight always finishes a story" line was a gental jab at GRRM? Or a secret reveal that he's actually finished the next book already!?!?! (It's not that.)
Raymun doesn't really understand how pregnancy works, does he? But hey he seems happy with"Rowan", formely Red (nice that they named the character after the actress.)
I suspect they changed the ending from the novella so that there's a reason for Maekar to appear in season two.
I think it's still ambiguous. Arlan could have knighted him after he woke up again. I wonder if his "a true knight always finishes a story" line was a gental jab at GRRM? Or a secret reveal that he's actually finished the next book already!?!?! (It's not that.)
Raymun doesn't really understand how pregnancy works, does he? But hey he seems happy with"Rowan", formely Red (nice that they named the character after the actress.)
I suspect they changed the ending from the novella so that there's a reason for Maekar to appear in season two.
It doesn't need to be intentional, it just is. What made the Targaryens so unique as a ruling house were their dragons. With them all gone they are just a regular house full of past glory clinging to power while other houses move into better positions and they have several rebellions to deal with. They are still powerful and with Baelor as an example are not all bastards and monsters but as Dany says in GoT the wheel is always turning.
Poor Raymun, drunk on his success, get's honey potted hard. I just shook my head because men really do stupid things because of women and we can relate ( if out of my personal experience i will not say
). I hope she's still a good woman and won't rob him blind or leave him for greener pastures in the future.Couldn't resist anymore and spoiled myself on the general events of the next 2 books, things will happen. I'm just sad we won't see the entire story finished because Martin is a glacier speed writer and on top of it like a buuterfly flying from project to project, rarely actually finishing one without delaying another. As i understand it there would have been 12 novellas detailling their entire lives but i read that the producers have no plans to move beyond the established novellas even though they had official insight into Martins' notes on the whole storyline.
True, but even without the dragons, the Targaryens had a touch of magic about them, such as their dragon dreams. It's clear that by the time of AKOTSK, much of that magic is spent; aside from Daeron, the Targaryens we met seemed like pretty ordinary people. The crown prince and his son wouldn't even have been taken for Targaryens if you passed them on the street, they just looked like your average Westerosi. It's a nice bit of subtle worldbuilding.
I think it was intentional. The show makes a point of showing growing and bolder discontent with the regime so the fear and mystique are both eroding which is beingshown physically. Their look also shows how diluted they are becoming in terms of bloodline.
Maybe but, as that is the spot Ser Arlan died at, I don’t think ser Arlan could have got up again to knight him.
I think it’s better if Dunk is unknighted because he, even if he isn’t a knight, honours the vows of a knight better than those who definitely have been knighted.
No, it didn't. It is still ambiguous and it's better that way.
Speaking as someone who hasn't read the novellas yet, my only issue with that is I find it curious that someone as honorable as Dunk is would lie about being a knight.
Either Dunk is the most honorable man in Westeros who has never told a lie or he's the most honorable man in Westeros who told one lie. Not sure which version I think is more compelling, but the show hasn't come down either way and I prefer the ambiguity. I'm sure it will remain that way.
(he's also a very bad liar, so there's that....)
Maybe that's why Dunk behaves so honorably, he's trying to make up for lying about his knighthood.
It's always been ambiguous, but I definitely prefer the theory that he never was knighted and made the whole thing up. I think the story is more interesting that way. Westeros' greatest knight was never actually a knight.
It's always been ambiguous, but I definitely prefer the theory that he never was knighted and made the whole thing up. I think the story is more interesting that way. Westeros' greatest knight was never actually a knight.
Perfectly fair interpretation, although I prefer to think Dunk is always honorable, not because is trying to compensate for a moral failing.
I prefer not knowing myself.
That works really well for me.
What about the exchange between Lyonel and Dunk?
Lyonel : I fought for you. Hardyng, Beesbury, the fucking Apple Boy - we fought for you.
Your prince fought for you against men sworn to protect him. He risked nothing and the gods don’t favour a fraud.
Dunk: Then why have they favoured me?
Is Dunk implying he is a fraud?
Lyonel : I fought for you. Hardyng, Beesbury, the fucking Apple Boy - we fought for you.
Your prince fought for you against men sworn to protect him. He risked nothing and the gods don’t favour a fraud.
Dunk: Then why have they favoured me?
Is Dunk implying he is a fraud?
Yes. He was never knighted by Pennytree and he was pretending at being one the entire tournament and some folks got killed because of his involvement in it.
However, since he actually has a conscience and honor, that makes him orders of magnitude a better knight than anyone present with such a title.
Doesn't stop him from feeling profound guilt over all that happened, though. That his something he will have to come to terms with. We know he will, as there are three pages of his honorable deeds in the book of the King's Guard in the Red Keep.
However, since he actually has a conscience and honor, that makes him orders of magnitude a better knight than anyone present with such a title.
Doesn't stop him from feeling profound guilt over all that happened, though. That his something he will have to come to terms with. We know he will, as there are three pages of his honorable deeds in the book of the King's Guard in the Red Keep.
Its interesting if you look at it as Aegon the Conqueror being the Norman Conquest, the Dance of the Dragons being the Anarchy, Knight of the Seven Kingdoms being c. Edward III, and them Game of Thrones being roughly Henry VIII and the Edward/Jane Grey/Mary/Elizabeth transition.
I thought Game of Thrones was more War of the Roses ie Lannister/Lancaster and Stark/York than based on later Tudor events.
And the best line of the 6th episode in my opinion was
Lyonel: ‘The caravan leaves after the roast’ and the next scene is Baelor’s funeral pyre.
At the start of the show I hope they wouldnt mess the character of Lyonel up as I liked the book version of him, the show version ended up being even better.
Lyonel: ‘The caravan leaves after the roast’ and the next scene is Baelor’s funeral pyre.
At the start of the show I hope they wouldnt mess the character of Lyonel up as I liked the book version of him, the show version ended up being even better.
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There's a touch of Withnail about him but there is someone else he reminds me way more of but I can't place it.
I mentioned in my review that the end of his conversation with Dunk that he suddenly reminded me of Tyrion (partially because of the beard). He also reminds me a bit of Oscar Isaac, if only in the physicality.
How did the Knights initially came to be? They were men who simply were better fighters, more cunning, richer or at a critical moment luckier. There is no divine mandate for royalty or knighthood, way back they all started as simple people who managed to claw their way to the top and then made up a set of rules to make it harder for others to get to the top too and become competition.
Over time this group at the top solidified their hold and started politicking through life and bam - now you have royalty who pass on their titles and powers to their descendants whose largest achievement was winning the family lottery by being born into a powerful family.
So to me for all intents on purposes Dunk earned his right to be called a knight, because he exemplifies the very virtues of a knight even if for most it's just PR and marketing to distinguish themselves from the lowborn rabble.