#aknightofthesevenkingdoms #gameofthrones #dunkandegg In a story that takes place about a hundred years before the events in Game of Thrones, we meet the acclaimed Sir Duncan the Tall, back when he was a lonely Hedge Knight named Dunk. After his mentor dies unexpectedly, Dunk makes his way to a local tourney to try to improve his lot in like. Along the way, he meets an unlikely companion (among others) who will challenge him to hold on to the lessons he's learned, and to be true to himself.
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What's up hybrids? Welcome back to another episode
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of the Phantom Hybrid Podcast. This is Hanukkah and I am here
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with Anthony and Dina and we are returning to Westeros.
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We are here to discuss the new Game of Thrones spin off.
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This is a prequel. It is called A Night of the
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Seven Kingdoms. It is based on a series of
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novellas written by George RR Martin about Sir Duncan the
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Tall, which we have heard about kind of sprinkled here and there
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through Game of Thrones lore, but.
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Technically, isn't it like a sequel slash prequel 'cause it's
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in between House of the Dragon? Oh yeah.
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Oh. Technically, yeah, it's a
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between. I don't know.
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Yeah, but this is the book that the the compilation that has all
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three stories. It's called The Night of the
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Seven Kingdoms by George RR Martin.
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It looks like season 1 is going to be covering the novella
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called The Hedge Night, which kind of introduces us to these
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characters, Duncan Egg. So let's let's get into it.
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What are your initial? Thoughts.
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It's hilarious. It is really funny.
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Definitely not regular Game of Thrones fair.
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I mean, they tell you from the outset when when the theme
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starts and he starts, it's like, oh, so that's what we're doing.
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You know, and it's so funny because when you look at the
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trailers for this show, you can kind of see they are going in a
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more or less serious direction. You do see a little bit more
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comedy, which I was like, OK, that's going to be different,
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but I, I can deal with that. So when they start and, and the,
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you know, they get through a, a scene in the beginning and you
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know, the, the characters talking, talking to himself, and
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then they start playing the theme music.
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I was telling Dina before we record it, I was over here
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getting hyped. I was like, yes, we got game
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with toes, it's about to be on. And then literally in the middle
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of the theme song, they cut to a scene of the character Dunk
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literally taking a dump. Like it's one thing to see him
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at the tree and you see him kind of strain in and you just see
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his face. OK, that's fine, he's taking a
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shit, OK whatever. Then they turn into a side view
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when you see his ass poking out from the tree and you literally
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see the shit exiting his ass. I was like, what?
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Exclusive. What's?
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With diarrhea. Like he had.
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Some of that magnesium sulfate stuff that people, whatever
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that. Stuff at first I was like, oh,
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they're like saying they're going to be crapping on Game of
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Thrones. But I was like, no, I think
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they're just letting us know this is different.
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This is going to. Be different.
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And and. Yeah, it's not what you think it
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is. The humor throughout the
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episode, because you get to see like we we get to be introduced
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to various houses, names that we know, the Baratheons, the
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Tyrells, Lannisters. You get all those familiar names
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and then you get names that we from the regular Game of Thrones
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series, if you haven't read the books, are not familiar with.
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So I'm, I'm assuming yeah, like fossil way.
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I think I, I feel like those are probably houses that have, you
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know, since meted out of existence, at least in the no.
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They they're mentioned, they're mentioned in the books.
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Yeah, that's why I said those of us who watch the show but
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haven't read the books, because if it in the show, the main Game
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of Thrones show, you never hear about a fossil.
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Way that's not. Mentioned but just the the total
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unseriousness of Sir Lionel. Is it Lionel?
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Baratheon, Sir Lionel Baratheon. Yeah.
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The laughing night. He's I love him though
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different. He is amazing.
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From what we think of because Robert, Robert had his humor, he
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had his sense of humor, but he was always very serious with it.
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This dude here, I was looking at him like he is so unserious and
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so unbothered and so full of himself.
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And it's comical. And I'm not mad at it.
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Like the whole episode was just, it was very weird.
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And I'm glad that I figured out that it was going to be a comedy
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from the trailers. Because I think if I didn't know
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anything about this show, if I didn't know anything about the
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characters, I would go into this thinking Game of Thrones,
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seriousness. Game of Thrones, you know, that
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kind of heavy drama. This first episode let us know
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No. It ain't.
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It's not. Goodness, Like, yeah, there's
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some. This This is not the dragon
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you're looking for. It is not the Dragons we are
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looking for. You know what, I'm OK with that.
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I'm OK 'cause like. Everything couldn't have been
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all war and seriousness all the time, I guess.
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You know, people had things, funny things.
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I mean, even Tyrion was funny at times.
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Yeah. But like, yeah, no.
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Lionel Bracken, though, he, he kind of got a bang.
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He got a little something something happening.
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Yeah, OK, I, I don't know, but. I think like with, with the with
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him, it's hard to say because it seems like everybody is kind of
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scared of them. So, you know, I think he, he
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just kind of treats everyone like, yeah, whatever y'all,
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y'all, y'all is just here because it's me, really.
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And if y'all don't show up, y'all think something's going to
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happen to you. Like he's like, what did he say?
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One of the guys that that one of his Lords came who owes him
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money, but he brought something to the dinner because, you know,
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it's his tent and you have to bring him something.
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Yeah. So yeah.
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And then y'all got quiet and he was trying to tell this story,
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but y'all got quiet. No, he had to tell them because
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the first, because you hear them in the background. 4000 years, I
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can't even hear myself talk. 4000 years, these people,
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they're not even listening to me.
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And then he's like, I have something to say and everybody
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shuts. But they were having a good
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time. They were drinking and eating.
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I mean, they weren't paying attention.
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Who? Wants to talk every time like
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that. Sir Lionel wants to talk.
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So serious. Like you said though, he.
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Used to talk. His big old Baratheon style
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crown. I'm like, dude, are those
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antlers big enough? What are you doing?
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Listen, I thought Robert had an ego.
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Robert is nothing compared to this dude.
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Hilarious. And, and the fact that he's
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known as the Laughing Night means he probably is so crazy
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that he's laughing when he's fighting and that that's kind of
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scary because he's enjoying lopping your head off in your
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arms. Yeah.
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Yeah, Robert has to get it from somewhere.
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He's fighting practice. He has to get it from somewhere.
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I guess because this like this ancestor is just a lot.
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But they kind of just turned out to be not really a horrible,
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like, you know, a horrible person.
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And he actually kind of was cool.
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And I was just like, OK, 'cause I was, I was a little worried
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for Dunk. I was just a little like, what
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does he have to get himself out of?
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But then he turned out to be like, hey, let's dance.
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I'm like. What?
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I think he's kind of interested in, in Sir Lincoln because he's,
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he's different. He's tall and he's different.
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He's not like everybody else who's fawning over him, right?
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He's he's just a regular dude. Right and and and quite clueless
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in a lot of ways. And he's I think I think that's
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a novelty for him. You know, Dunk is one thing
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about Dunk's character that we see in this first episode.
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He is very I feel like he's very genuine.
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He's not really like, he is trying to impress people, but
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not in the way that most people of this, you know, of this show
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or of these houses are trying to impress people.
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He just doesn't want people to look down on him.
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You know, he's like, well, he's not.
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Very he's not very bright. I, I hate to say that he well,
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that's kind of not fear. I think he has a lot of like
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regular common sense, but that's about.
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Trained on the yeah. Like, he, he definitely knows,
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right? Wrong.
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He knows what nights are supposed to be.
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And I think this show is like an exploration of, of what it means
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to be a knight because he seems like he has this idealized
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version of what a knight is. And then he goes and he sees off
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his drinking and debauchery, and then he meets Sir Lionel and.
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Yeah, yeah. A lot of nepotism, a lot of who
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you know, yeah. It's, it's, I think he's going
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to get sort of a lesson on, you know what, what you think, what
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Sir Arlen told him, you know, about what it means to be a
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knight is not how it is in the real world.
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OK. And that guy, I'm glad he's
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dead. I was like, this guy, he's like.
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Every time you. Every time you hit me, I
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deserved it. He got him trained.
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I think he deserves to be beaten.
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OK, but it's. So interesting because even even
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with the way that we see the flashbacks, like when he said
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when he's speaking over Sir Arlen's grave and he was like,
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you know, you never beat me unless I deserved.
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And then all of a sudden you see all these different clips of him
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hitting him. One of the things that you
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notice throughout the episode, and they're also in the books,
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because I have started reading the Hedge Knight or listening to
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the Hedge Knight, which is very interesting because it's being
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narrated by Harry Lloyd, who very famously played the Sears
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Targaryen in season 1 of Game of Thrones.
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He's the one that's narrating the book.
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So it's really interesting hearing the saris, Daenerys
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brother for Saris talk about these characters.
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But one thing about Dunks character, even though we look
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at the way Sir Arlen was treating him as like, oh, that
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was a bit much. He actually really does love
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this man like this who kind of pulled him out of the streets of
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Flea Bottom, you know, raised him, took care of him, taught
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him what it was to be a a hedge night, Which, and now I'm going
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to ask you, what's the, what's the, the difference of the
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distinguished, you know, the distinguishing feature between
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a, a hedge night and just a regular night.
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Regular nights are sworn to Lords.
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They they, yeah, they're sworn to the houses, they work for the
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houses and whatnot. And the hedge night basically is
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a knight to he is knighted but he doesn't have a Lord.
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Oh, OK, so that's what he was talking.
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OK 'cause I think he mentioned Sir Arlen saying that, you know,
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one of the things about hedge Knights is they go where they
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are needed and they help where. OK, OK.
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Yeah, like if a, if a Lord is is in a dispute and he needs some
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extra help, he would hire a hedge knight which the more
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pertinent questions like what's the difference between the hedge
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knight and a sales source? OK.
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Yeah, 'cause that was my next question.
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Yeah, yeah. All all hedge Knights are actual
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Knights. They've been knighted.
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OK. Not all sales sores are Knights.
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They are really just mercenaries.
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They fighting for lands, they will do whatever it is you pay
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them to do. OK, but his Knights still follow
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the night code, they still are honorable and whatnot.
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They just don't have a Lord, OK? OK, which is?
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Almost like a ronin. The samurai.
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The samurai, they don't have Lords.
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OK. But they're not treated quite as
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bad because they will take protection contracts.
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You know, they'll work for any Lord who had who will pay them.
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But it has to be an honorable thing that they're doing.
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It has to be with still within that coat, OK?
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Those swords don't care, OK? Yeah.
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But yeah, so it seems like Dunk really, he does have his
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allegiance to this, to this lower arm because he could have
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left them in the streets of Flea Bottom.
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He could have left him to be a beggar or you know, I think from
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what we've seen in other in other shows that take place in
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this time, he could have been like the court jester.
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He could have been the fool. Because again, he does not seem
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to be. I'm not going to say he's dumb.
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He's not, he observes things and he knows things, but I think
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because he wasn't refined, I think that's, that's the word
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I'm looking for. He's not as refined as some of
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these other people because he, he didn't, you know, he wasn't
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raised in a castle. He didn't have tutors.
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He didn't have that kind of formal training.
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And so all everybody else in this show so far is looking at
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him kind of like, oh, you're dumb.
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Oh, you don't know much. You know, even even the whores
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are treating him like, you know, dirt on the bottom of his shoe.
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And I love the way that he just kind of was like, must you mock
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me? All I did was ask for your help,
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you know. Just need your help right?
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He's very sweet. But then it's so funny that he
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that he does that with them, but then he turns around and acts
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the same way towards egg when he first comes across egg.
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Yeah, but he's just doing what what Arlen, Sir Arlen did to
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him. I know, but what?
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What did he is the book. What is the Arlen always told
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him Dunk the Lunkhead is Speaking of the castle wall.
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And he says that to himself throughout the book whenever he
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says something stupid or does something.
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Yeah, unconventional, which I guess would be more accurate.
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Yeah, yeah. You know.
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When he struggles to find find the words or he says the wrong
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thing, Thunk to lunk head is thick as a castle wall.
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Yeah, it's cool. I I like him and and Dina's
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right. He's very sweet and I felt so
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bad for him when the the whore said that he was like I I really
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was just asking a question. Trying.
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To get someone have to mock me, right?
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But you can tell they're so bad. Yeah, and they were, they were
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kind of like, look, we've seen green nights come and we've seen
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them go. So I guess in the way I can
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understand, they're kind of like, OK, look, we're not going
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to get sweet on you. We're not going to get attached
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to you. We're not going to treat you
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nice because you probably won't even be here for, you know, the
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next right, because because he actually is.
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He's going to join attorney to try to, you know, get some, some
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coin or try to improve his his. Status, yeah.
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His status, his stature, his circumstances, because now his
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mentor has died and he's all alone in the world, which I
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don't think he's ever been since he left Flea Bottom.
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So it's kind of like it's almost a coming of age story in a
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sense. Because I think in, I think in
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the books, he's supposed to be like what, 18-19 maybe?
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1718, something like that. Maybe even 1617.
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That's a tall 16 year old if that's.
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But you know, that's the thing, like when he was talking in the
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beginning about what to do, like he's like, I could sell you guys
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and have food to talk about the horses and I can have food for
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maybe a year or two. But then what at what's next
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after that? Like he's, he's not like, I know
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like, like we said, he's got sense.
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Like he knows that that's only going to be temporary and he
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needs to be able to like have a future and he's trying to have a
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future. And I just wonder, like, if
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Arlen had lived, would he ever have left Arlen at any time?
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Because I feel like he would have held him back.
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Because when he talks about him wanting, you know, being a
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knight in Ireland is just, he's so rude, so rude.
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And then I'm just like, yeah, that guy would have held him
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down, held him back. So good thing he did die, you
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know? Yeah.
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Because even. At heart, he's still, it's like
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he's still a street kid. He's still the kids from Flea
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Bottom who's trying to be a knight.
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Yeah. But he doesn't.
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Yeah, but he doesn't want to be the street kid because when he
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talks about the horses, he said, OK, yeah, so that'll, that'll
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hold me for a year or two. But then what?
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After that, he said it'll be a life of begging or thieving.
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And that's not what I want to do.
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So, you know, he knows he wants to do maybe not necessarily
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great things, but he knows that he wants to be better than what
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his current circumstances are. So, you know, it's kind of one
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of those things. Like we know in the the later
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Game of Thrones Lord, we know that he he succeeds in something
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because they mention him several times.
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So it's not like he just kind of faded away and no one ever knows
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him like he's a renowned knight. So we know that his story does
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improve, but it's just watching this, listening to it, seeing
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him and kind of seeing where the circumstances, you do kind of
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wonder about him because unfortunately, people with good
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hearts don't necessarily have great futures in Westeros, you
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know, at. All.
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Everything is very, everything is very cut throat.
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Everything is very deceitful. Everything is very pretty much,
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who's asked can you kiss and who?
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Who's going to help you with this?
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And you know, I find it interesting that he already has
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not necessarily a patron, but someone who was taking an
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interest in him, and that is Sir Raymond Fossaway, which is one
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of the new names, as we said. Yes, Raymond Fossaway.
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He's just a Squire. Yeah, I.
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Know I know I know, but still you know the fact that someone I
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mean he's from a one of the quote UN quote noble families.
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You know even though yes he is a Squire, he's still a part of the
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family and he kind of taken it takes an interest in duck
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because I don't want to say duck challenged his cousin when his
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cousin was whooping his ass, but he was kind of looking at him
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like like like but let's talk a little bit about egg because
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when I say this kid. He's so cute, so adorable, and I
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love, I just love the way he comes onto the screen and he
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just like he owns it from the moment he steps on the screen,
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you know, big eyes, his little shaved head.
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He's very, I don't want to say he's a smart ass.
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He's very sexy. He's.
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Intelligent. He's very intelligent, very
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sassy. It already makes you understand
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this kid is not just a regular. You know, he's not your regular
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orphan. He's not your regular kid.
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And those of us who are familiar with Game of Thrones more and if
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you've read the Hedge and I, you find out who this kid is fairly
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quickly. So we probably I don't know, I
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would say this this show, I think first season is only 6
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episodes. We probably will find out eggs
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identity. I would say maybe around episode
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3. That sounds right, yeah, but.
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The the fact that, you know, when we meet him, it's when Dunk
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is going to an end and, you know, he comes across the little
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boy, he's like, are you the stable boy here?
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Clean my horses and stuff. And I was like, he didn't tell
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you. Yes, he didn't tell you.
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He was a stable boy. He was like, yeah, you know how
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to you can brush them down. Yeah, I could if I wanted to.
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I was like, oh, it was already going to be interesting because
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he was like, yeah, I can if I wanted to.
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I didn't say I wanted to. And dunk is like, oh, you do
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this. I'm a clot your ear, I'm a do
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this. I was like, you treat him the
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same way Lord Aaron treated you. Because he's a child child.
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Children just don't have any real power or whatever.
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He kind of gave me that Arya Stark with Tywin Lannister feel
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because he was like meeting him step by step.
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Everything he said, he has something to say back, right?
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That was fun. Which is interesting.
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And we also get our first look at a Targaryen inside the end
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because we meet Sir Darren. The is the drunken or the
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drunkard that I think it's the drunken Targaryen who is sitting
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kind of passed out on the table. You know, he's got spilled
00:22:39
liquor. This is how you know he's a
00:22:40
drunkard because he has spilled liquor and he just laid out
00:22:44
there flat because you know, everybody else would be
00:22:46
complaining about the fact that you wasting the alcohol.
00:22:49
He's just laying there and then when he wakes up and he sees
00:22:53
Dunk, he's like, I had a dream about you.
00:22:55
Stay the fuck away from me. I was like, he got, he got the
00:23:00
seer gene, he got the. Seer gene, he got the sight it's
00:23:03
it's that ain't always good, right?
00:23:05
It's. Not good.
00:23:07
Especially you, Targaryen. It's not.
00:23:08
It's not. Yeah, they word for.
00:23:11
Me, that's not a good. That's not, that's not a good
00:23:13
sign, Yeah, but yeah. This egg character, this little
00:23:19
boy is very He's got some skills because he's in the end, Dunk
00:23:28
leaves him in the end because the little boy is like he's you
00:23:32
know, you're going to join the list.
00:23:33
I can come with you. I can be your Squire.
00:23:36
He's so funny because he was like, I don't need a Squire.
00:23:39
He was like all nights need a Squire and you look like you
00:23:42
need one more than me. What?
00:23:44
You need one more. Than.
00:23:44
The most that way you this kid climbed a horse by himself with
00:23:51
armor 4 feet tall with. Armor with armor.
00:23:58
And then not only that, Dunk leaves, goes to Ashford.
00:24:04
Goes to. Ashford with Ashford Fields for
00:24:08
this tourney. He goes and you know, he spends
00:24:11
his day going around. He comes back to where he's made
00:24:14
his camp and Egg is there. Egg is there.
00:24:17
He's got a fish on the spear. He's cooking them dinner.
00:24:20
He's like, I washed your shitty clothes.
00:24:24
I. Brushed.
00:24:25
Your horse Brushed. Your horse.
00:24:27
I did all this stuff. I would have put up your
00:24:29
pavilion, but you don't have one.
00:24:32
He was like, how did you get here?
00:24:34
I I I hopped a ride on the lamb cart.
00:24:37
What? Something tells me, Sir Don, you
00:24:42
need to keep this little kid around because this kid gets
00:24:45
stuff done. Like he's just free and clear,
00:24:49
just roaming the river. I know not the reach, he's just
00:24:52
roaming the reach. Right.
00:24:54
He's like, I ought to take you back home when you have to go to
00:24:57
King's Landing. He was like King's Landing,
00:25:00
Isn't that this boy told you before?
00:25:02
The innkeeper was not his mother.
00:25:03
Not. His mother he did.
00:25:07
So it's so funny because when he says King's Land and he kind of
00:25:11
looks at him like, oh, and I think in his mind and even in
00:25:14
the books, because in the book, all of the stuff that he that he
00:25:19
verbalizes, and also a lot of the stuff that he says when he's
00:25:22
conversing with the horses is actually internal dialogue was
00:25:27
like what he's saying to himself.
00:25:30
And he thinks that this little kid is from Flea Bottom, like
00:25:33
him. Not in the show, he.
00:25:34
Actually. Asked him.
00:25:35
Oh, so you're from Flea Bottom too?
00:25:37
And the kids like, no. I didn't say that.
00:25:40
I didn't say. That, but I didn't say.
00:25:42
That but he. Automatically he just assumes,
00:25:45
like, oh, this kid might be from Flea Bottom, but he just doesn't
00:25:48
want to say because he's looking at the kid, the fact that his
00:25:50
name is Egg, the fact that his head is shaved.
00:25:53
He's like, oh, you know, the kids might have given him him
00:25:56
this name, nickname, you know, as a way to teach him.
00:26:01
Maybe he was born in Flea Bottom.
00:26:02
Maybe he comes from the same circumstances as I do.
00:26:05
And that's kind of why he relents a little bit at the end.
00:26:09
He's like, OK, look, as long as you do as you're told, I'll I'll
00:26:14
keep you around at least for the turning.
00:26:18
You know, I'll make sure you have a, you know, shelter over
00:26:22
your head. I'll make sure you have
00:26:24
something to eat, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:26:26
And I was like, this is going to be the most interesting
00:26:30
partnership I think we've seen in a while in Westeros because
00:26:35
he's so he's so serious, but he's also funny without
00:26:40
intending to be funny. It's just part of his
00:26:42
personality. And Egg is also funny without
00:26:47
trying to be funny. But did you notice so like when
00:26:52
like so when he's at the place in the at the end and the lady
00:26:54
said that her son caught the the food or whatever, the animal or
00:26:58
whatever. And oh, did my son do the thing,
00:27:01
blah, blah, blah, blah, or my boy, I'm sorry, my boy.
00:27:04
And so I was like wondering like, then she wasn't talking
00:27:07
about egg. I feel like she was talking
00:27:09
about somebody else who just wasn't around out when he just
00:27:12
assumed the egg was that person. And I'm just like, was Egg just
00:27:16
hanging out in her stables? Because I feel like.
00:27:20
I don't know. I feel like the that it was an
00:27:23
older person, maybe an older boy that she was talking about.
00:27:27
That's what. I felt like too, especially
00:27:28
because she was talking about or maybe he could have been around
00:27:32
the same age because if you if you think about that scene,
00:27:35
there's also a little girl sitting on the stairs who I'm
00:27:38
assuming is her daughter. So maybe it's another kid around
00:27:42
eggs age maybe. Maybe Ed?
00:27:44
Came across him and he was like, like, hey, I mean, if Egg is a
00:27:49
runaway, like, again, we don't know at this point who Egg is.
00:27:52
We don't know where he came from.
00:27:54
We don't know how he ended up in that end.
00:27:57
So maybe he saw the little boy and the little boy brought him
00:27:59
some clothes because you know, kids do that.
00:28:01
They see somebody that's just kind of there who's may not have
00:28:05
anything. The innkeepers child might have
00:28:07
been like, oh, let me get you some clothes, whatever.
00:28:10
Hey, why don't you, if you stay here and do my thing so I can go
00:28:14
such and such. Because what was it she was
00:28:16
saying that her son wanted to go to the attorney?
00:28:19
He might have tried to. Sneak off and go somewhere and
00:28:21
he's like, hey, why if stay here while I go?
00:28:24
Because we don't know how far this tourney is from where the
00:28:27
end is. It can't be too far.
00:28:29
Yeah, because. They just popped on the cart and
00:28:31
went right. So.
00:28:34
Or or or he just could have been in the stables checking out the
00:28:36
horses. That's true too.
00:28:39
That's true too. Whatever.
00:28:40
Horses was left. He was just there because they
00:28:43
actually said everyone had left for the mostly everybody had
00:28:47
left of attorney. Yep.
00:28:49
So look, her son might have hopped the ride with whoever was
00:28:51
there and went to the attorney, and her son might have hopped on
00:28:55
a lamb cart somewhere and Egg just happened to be there, you
00:29:01
know, just minding his business or not minding his business or
00:29:05
whatever the case may be. I'm sorry, I have.
00:29:08
This is not a question as an observation.
00:29:10
Did anyone else think, Oh my God, they're just really showing
00:29:14
us that something's not right with these people, that they
00:29:16
have a whore pretending to be dead.
00:29:18
They eat out on the table. Yeah, I, I, I was.
00:29:23
Like what are these people into? I mean, I know it's.
00:29:27
Not like they were. It looked like they were
00:29:29
practicing the ritual that they do when they when people die.
00:29:33
So maybe she maybe. They'll.
00:29:35
Yeah, that's what it looked like they were practicing the ritual,
00:29:39
like maybe trying to learn what it is they're supposed to do.
00:29:42
Because again, he was a nice attorney.
00:29:45
Then there might be some people who die, so maybe they're just
00:29:48
practicing what they may have. I just.
00:29:52
Thought there was some, you know, the biometry going on
00:29:54
somebody. He has to.
00:29:57
A request or we can. It is a Game of Thrones spin
00:30:02
off. You know, little Finger.
00:30:04
He would be like, sure, I got you.
00:30:09
I got. You.
00:30:11
I don't think it was that. Yeah, I, I really think either
00:30:16
they were practicing that or they were just bored because
00:30:19
everybody has to be out around. It has to be.
00:30:21
Accepting it has to be accepting or two around.
00:30:24
They know what to do. The hordes don't have to do it.
00:30:27
I'm just saying they could. Have been just bored, like
00:30:30
nobody was realizing them for what they were supposed to be
00:30:33
there for. So they might have just been
00:30:35
like, oh, OK, you know. Oh yeah.
00:30:38
Because was it Lord Dundarian who he was looking for?
00:30:43
He was sleeping. So they were kind of not busy,
00:30:48
right? Because.
00:30:49
He was asleep, but also that Lord Dondarian.
00:30:53
When we do finally see him later on in the episode, it's like
00:30:58
this is Barracks ancestor. Right.
00:31:01
Like who is this guy? So it's so weird because again,
00:31:06
we're we're seeing ancestors of characters that we already know
00:31:10
from Game of Thrones and these and they're like so different.
00:31:15
They're opposite ends of the spectrum because Barrett
00:31:18
Garndarian was so much he was more serious.
00:31:23
He wasn't about this, but then again this is also after he was
00:31:28
what touched by the Lord of Light.
00:31:29
I don't know what he was like before then he.
00:31:32
He had died and he couldn't die. He kept coming back to life.
00:31:36
Right. So, you know, your, your view of
00:31:39
the world, your perspective changes.
00:31:41
Yeah. Yeah.
00:31:42
I can't remember. If they had had a They talked
00:31:44
about his history though, before, like, you know, before
00:31:49
they, they came into the actual picture, the what, what were
00:31:52
they called the Brotherhood? The Brotherhood.
00:31:54
Before they came into the picture, I feel like somebody
00:31:56
talked about him like his past or something, but I can't
00:31:59
remember for sure they did. But I can't remember because I
00:32:02
think wasn't he because he was with, he fought with Robert and
00:32:07
Ned. Yeah.
00:32:09
And I remember. I think I can't.
00:32:11
You're right, Dina. They did say something about
00:32:13
that. He was.
00:32:15
But I can't remember but. I don't think it was I I don't
00:32:19
think his character was similar to this of his ancestor.
00:32:22
Like probably not the the ancestor, just he just Lionel.
00:32:29
No, not Lionel. What's his name?
00:32:34
I can't. It starts with an M Manfred.
00:32:39
Manfred. Yes.
00:32:41
Manfred Yeah, yes. But you know, Dunk comes to him
00:32:46
because Dunk wants to answer the list, but he is not AI guess an
00:32:52
officially recognized night because his master knighted him
00:32:58
right before he died. There were no witnesses.
00:33:00
So he's like, OK, is there anybody here that could vouch
00:33:03
for who you are and and for this Sir Aaron of yours?
00:33:08
Because I've never heard of them.
00:33:09
That's the crazy thing. Because they've been traveling
00:33:12
all this time. They've been, you know, doing
00:33:15
all this stuff. Nobody remembers his master.
00:33:18
And I was like. Because they don't take the time
00:33:23
to remember. Remember Hedge Light?
00:33:26
But also he he could have just been this self-proclaimed hedge
00:33:30
knight and honestly didn't have any of the supposed credentials
00:33:34
of being knighted by somebody. And he could have just had this
00:33:37
freaking kid on the on the I'm here, Sir.
00:33:40
And and he so you're. You're you're literally saying
00:33:43
he could be like Don Quixote. And and which one called you
00:33:52
Sanchez just. Give just given the way that we
00:33:55
see he's kind of described, he may also just be like the type
00:34:01
of person who just was never about the recognition.
00:34:06
You know, he might have genuinely just been like, you
00:34:09
know what, I just want to be a good night.
00:34:11
I just want to go around and help people.
00:34:13
And he didn't care about the recognition.
00:34:15
Unfortunately for Dunk, the recognition is what he needs in
00:34:18
order to be able to do what he wants to do, which is, you know,
00:34:22
participate in the list. So he, he remembers that, you
00:34:27
know, we went to Lord Dondarian's house.
00:34:31
We helped his father. And I felt so bad for him when
00:34:36
he went to appeal to Lord Dondarian and he was like, I
00:34:39
don't remember you or your master.
00:34:41
He was like, my master took, you know, he was wounded protecting
00:34:46
your father. How can you not remember him?
00:34:49
And he said, oh, we've forgotten hundreds of people who have done
00:34:53
far more than get a war. I was like, that's so rude and
00:34:59
disrespectful. But you know what it makes?
00:35:04
I mean, that's real life though. It is.
00:35:07
Soldiers. Soldiers always get the short
00:35:09
end of the stick. But it's sad for Doc because
00:35:13
that means that now he has no valid way to get into the list,
00:35:20
you know? But now he has a buddy.
00:35:23
Yeah, that's what. I was going.
00:35:26
To say, I don't know if that will change now because Lionel
00:35:30
Baratheon has kind of not necessarily befriended him, but,
00:35:33
you know, he's kind of taking notice of him.
00:35:36
And he was giving him that advice at the end, which I was
00:35:40
like, OK, he's probably going to help him.
00:35:42
And then when Dunk was like, well, what should I do?
00:35:44
He was like, I don't know, I'm really drunk.
00:35:46
I was like, you know what? I mean, he was he was sitting at
00:35:51
the head of the table with him. You know, I don't think anyone
00:35:54
else had the boss to do that. But if he.
00:35:56
Was really that drunk? Chances are, Lionel Baratheon is
00:36:00
probably not going to even remember all of that the next he
00:36:02
probably. Won't he's like I, I say all
00:36:06
kinds of he's, I say all kinds of shit with him drunk, Yeah.
00:36:10
Right. Oh.
00:36:13
Man but. Yeah.
00:36:18
He's great. Lionel Bradley.
00:36:21
I hope he stays because he's I like him the.
00:36:24
Dancing scene. I love the dancing scene.
00:36:27
The dancing scene. Was great because he's sitting
00:36:31
there trying to step on Dunk's toes and Dunk keeps moving.
00:36:37
And then when he finally steps on his toes, he steps on them
00:36:39
hard. Because of course Dunk is this
00:36:41
big ass guy. He's looking at him like, oh
00:36:45
shit, what did I just do? And Lionel's looking at him and
00:36:48
I was like, you know, the first thing he said to you was, have
00:36:51
you ever been punched in the face?
00:36:53
I thought he was about to punch Dunk in the face.
00:36:56
And then? He starts laughing, they start
00:36:58
dancing, he starts spinning dunk around.
00:37:00
I was like, OK, that's going to be dunks, Ally there.
00:37:04
And then of course the conversation comes and he's
00:37:07
like, I don't know what you should do, I'm really drunk.
00:37:10
And then he gets up and he just kind of walks over the table and
00:37:12
walks over the table. Random feels like.
00:37:17
Dunk, I don't know if this is going to have a good outcome for
00:37:22
you. I don't.
00:37:23
Find out a hunter for boy. Good.
00:37:32
I mean, I don't know, but at this point, like Dunk has no
00:37:35
allies he except for this little kid who is like really, really
00:37:41
sweet. What's his?
00:37:44
Name Raymond? What did we say his name was?
00:37:46
Raymond. Raymond possibly?
00:37:48
Yeah. But I mean, if he's just a
00:37:51
Squire, it's not much that he's going to be able to do either
00:37:55
though, because if he's like, is he Squire to his cousin or is he
00:38:00
OK? Can we we see the cousin Stephen
00:38:04
Fossil way? He's a Dick.
00:38:07
He's a Dick. He's one of those he's one of
00:38:10
those people that I'm like, OK, he can die a quick death.
00:38:13
I'll be OK. So I, you know, but that's not
00:38:17
going to help Dunk much as as far as trying to get into the
00:38:24
attorney. So it's just kind of like, I
00:38:27
guess we're going to have to see how he manages that, you know,
00:38:32
because obviously he's going to get into the attorney some kind
00:38:35
of way. I don't think they would be
00:38:37
doing this particular show if not.
00:38:41
And then also, this has to be his entry point into actually
00:38:44
becoming Sir Duncan the Tall, the renowned knight that we've
00:38:48
heard about, you know, in Game of Thrones.
00:38:52
So I don't know. It's going to be interesting
00:38:57
seeing the way that these characters kind of develop
00:39:01
because, again, we have characters whose houses we're
00:39:03
familiar with. We have characters that we've
00:39:06
not heard of before. Because I think there was
00:39:08
another, it was a fossil ways and somebody else that was
00:39:13
mentioned. I can't remember right now, but
00:39:18
yeah, it'll be interesting to see how these characters kind of
00:39:22
develop. And how they play a part, we
00:39:24
don't, we don't see any any of the houses from the north,
00:39:28
because I realized, oh, they're in the Reach, which is South of
00:39:33
King's Landing. Yeah, the only.
00:39:37
Ones who would come would be the ones who have money, like the
00:39:40
Lannisters, because that's a long way to go.
00:39:42
Yeah, for a turn. And the Starks ain't coming
00:39:45
first. No one from the north is coming.
00:39:47
They're just not going. Yeah, they don't, they don't,
00:39:50
they don't do that kind of thing in North.
00:39:53
And there are no, I don't think there are no errands there
00:39:56
either. Oh yeah, Because I mean, yeah,
00:39:59
they ain't coming from the. Ain't nobody coming out from
00:40:01
the. Bell out of the.
00:40:03
Bell for that. No, it'll be.
00:40:07
Cool, because there's one scene. Yeah.
00:40:09
Well, yeah, they're they're in the Reach, so.
00:40:13
Yeah, it would definitely be the brand new the hike, the the.
00:40:18
Car rails. The Lannisters, Yeah.
00:40:22
Oh, amazing. There's a.
00:40:24
Scene in the There's a scene in the book.
00:40:26
I hope they do it in the next episode when he's walking
00:40:30
through with egg and egg is telling him all the different
00:40:34
sigils that he sees and his egg is going to buy.
00:40:39
Oh, that's such and such and that's such and such.
00:40:41
She's going to that would be cool to do because if they do
00:40:44
that, then it'll I don't want to say they'll bring it more into
00:40:48
Game of Thrones, but we'll be like, you know, the, the meme,
00:40:51
the Menardo DiCaprio, me. Yeah.
00:40:57
That would be great, yeah. And I think they've done that.
00:41:00
Like I think they did that in the House of the Dragon 2.
00:41:03
Where you do get to there is like a scene where you get to
00:41:06
see all the different houses. I think maybe when?
00:41:10
Oh, Rainer Raineris was going around trying to find a husband,
00:41:14
right? Right.
00:41:17
So yeah, they probably will do that particular scene just to
00:41:20
kind of give us an idea, like especially for people, because I
00:41:23
do what I didn't realize was House of the Dragon is there are
00:41:27
people who watch House of the Dragon who never watched A Day
00:41:30
of Game of Thrones, which is weird for me.
00:41:33
I didn't think people would do that.
00:41:34
But, you know, because it happens in the timeline before
00:41:37
Game of Thrones, some people were like, oh, well, let me
00:41:40
watch this because then I watched this and then I can
00:41:43
watch Game of Thrones. You know, they think it'll have
00:41:45
like a direct correlation, which it really doesn't accept for the
00:41:49
Targaryens. You know, you had, yeah, you had
00:41:52
the other houses in there. But the Targaryen story is the
00:41:56
one story that kind of weaves through everything in a major
00:42:00
way because they are the rulers and have been the rulers for so
00:42:05
long. So.
00:42:09
So there may be some people who are watching this as well who
00:42:13
may not be familiar with the main Game of Thrones.
00:42:15
And so that will be a good way for them to know, OK, this is
00:42:19
who this belongs to and stuff like that as far as the sigils
00:42:24
and the houses and stuff. But yeah, I, I like this
00:42:30
episode. I, I, I like it.
00:42:33
It was, it was very funny. It was very it, it did have some
00:42:38
heart. I like the character of Dunk,
00:42:43
you know, and he's just, I think he's going to be one of those
00:42:45
characters I'm going to feel protective over because of the
00:42:49
way that he comes across. You know, again, he comes across
00:42:53
as sheltered, I think is another good word for him, you know,
00:43:00
because he doesn't know a lot about the wider world in that
00:43:06
sense. Like you said, Anthony, he he
00:43:08
only knows what a hedge night is and, and how they're supposed to
00:43:11
behave. So to see what the other nights
00:43:13
are doing and how they're behaving and how they're not
00:43:16
necessarily holding themselves up to a certain standard is a
00:43:21
bit of an eye opener for him. So he'll probably have more of
00:43:24
those moments, and I have a feeling some of those moments
00:43:28
will not necessarily be great for him.
00:43:31
So it's just kind of one of those things where, you know,
00:43:33
even though he's this big giant guy who obviously can take a
00:43:39
take care of itself, at least that's what I would assume, you
00:43:42
still just kind of want to look at him and be like, OK, we're
00:43:44
going to protect him. Here's my sword.
00:43:47
You can't mess with him. That's kind of how I feel like
00:43:49
I'm going to feel about this character for this season.
00:43:52
I like what Lionel Baratheon told him.
00:43:55
He was like, you're so big and tall, why are you slouching?
00:44:01
You need and that's sort of almost like I feel like there
00:44:04
was some foreshadowing because he's like, you know, I don't
00:44:07
want to be noticed, you know, so you should not be noticed.
00:44:09
But but no, he's like, dude, you need to take advantage of that,
00:44:13
right He. Was like the seven guys gave
00:44:14
you, gave you tallness. So be tall or be.
00:44:17
Tall, yeah. Yeah, kind of kind of own it or
00:44:21
I'm. Going to name you a heretic
00:44:23
burning you with the snake. Throw you off firstly.
00:44:27
Punishment. No, I guess I was.
00:44:31
Serious and I love it. He is so unserious.
00:44:38
Probably will. Balance the seriousness of all
00:44:40
the other ones, you know, Because aside from Raymond
00:44:45
Fossaway, who is not necessarily not serious, but he's not
00:44:49
necessarily serious either. He's kind of like in between,
00:44:53
but his cousin, so serious. Such an asshole.
00:44:58
You know, Darren Targaryen. I don't know yet.
00:45:04
He's a drunk though, but that doesn't necessarily mean
00:45:07
anything. Like, I don't know, we we'll
00:45:10
have to see how which way the wind blows with that one in the
00:45:15
next episode. But I do know that we will be
00:45:17
seeing some other Targaryens in the next few episodes.
00:45:21
So it's going to be interesting to see how how everything is.
00:45:25
But yeah, I think Lionel is going to be one of those
00:45:28
characters who when everybody else starts getting on our
00:45:32
nerves, he's going to say something stupid.
00:45:34
We're going to be like, oh, OK, we're good, we're good.
00:45:36
He's going to be the he's going to be the palate cleanser for
00:45:40
the show. He's the lasting night for a
00:45:43
reason. Listen, I think.
00:45:46
I'm going to need some laughter. Nice.
00:45:49
With nicknames like that are the ones you got to be worried
00:45:51
about. Worried about in a good way or
00:45:54
in a bad way? He might hurt you for real.
00:45:59
I. Mean yeah, I kind of get that
00:46:02
yeah, because. Yeah, you give him a name like
00:46:04
the Laughing Knight, and you're like, this, this is the guy that
00:46:07
charges head on laughing into a battle.
00:46:10
And you're like, yeah, I'm. I'm kind of.
00:46:13
Yeah. He might be a psycho.
00:46:15
He. He.
00:46:16
Might be yeah, yeah, just a. Little bit, yeah, Yeah.
00:46:22
But I mean, if that's the case, bring it on because again,
00:46:25
everybody else is so serious that everybody else is, you
00:46:28
know, either too serious or too much of a Dick or too like have,
00:46:33
have their own heads up their asses, you know.
00:46:37
So, yeah, I, I kind of want the, I want the comic version because
00:46:44
again, we've, we've met other Baratheons.
00:46:47
We met Robert in the main show. We met, you know, all the others
00:46:52
standing House of the Dragon. And then the one in House of the
00:46:56
Dragon, He was, he was such a guy.
00:46:59
He was an asshole too, yeah. He was an asshole, but he was.
00:47:02
Yeah, so. So this is a breath of fresh
00:47:06
air, you know, like, OK, I like you so far.
00:47:11
We'll see how, we'll see how they.
00:47:14
But yeah. So again, this one is only 6
00:47:22
episodes. I'm wondering if they're going
00:47:24
to do a season per novella. I would hope so.
00:47:31
I don't. I wouldn't want them to try to
00:47:33
stretch it out artificially, no. Because there's only three
00:47:37
novellas. Do they already?
00:47:40
Get green lit for more. I don't.
00:47:44
Know that's a good question. I don't know, because you know,
00:47:49
there's other. I know that they are.
00:47:52
They are supposed to be doing something having to do with
00:47:56
Aegon's Conquest, but I think they're trying to figure out
00:48:00
which format they're doing. Yeah, yeah, they're supposed to
00:48:03
be doing Aegon's Conquest. And I think George RR Martin did
00:48:08
an interview within the last couple of weeks, and I've only
00:48:11
seen, like, bits and clips here. I haven't seen the whole
00:48:13
interview yet, but I think they are.
00:48:16
There are some other Game of Thrones prequels that have been
00:48:21
kind of put out there as far as the possibility of them being
00:48:24
developed. I don't know if any of them have
00:48:27
been greenlit yet. I still want the other one that
00:48:30
y'all were supposed to do with Jamie Campbell Bauer in it.
00:48:33
That y'all filmed a $30 million pilot and just cancel.
00:48:36
I, I can, I get that one because I, because I really want to see
00:48:42
that. I mean, Naomi Watts, what I
00:48:43
think was attached to, I just want to see what y'all were
00:48:46
going to do. Just really, y'all already
00:48:48
filmed the pilot. You already spend so much, waste
00:48:51
$30 million. It says they have greenlit
00:48:56
season 2 and season 3. OK.
00:48:59
So yeah, then they're definitely going to do each book.
00:49:01
OK. OK.
00:49:03
I would be worried if they hadn't greenlit it because
00:49:05
typically they'll try to help shove stuff all in one just in
00:49:08
case they don't get greenlit. You know, they try to do that
00:49:11
sometimes. So yeah, they definitely got it
00:49:13
in and these. Stories are not very long so
00:49:18
yeah so if they do 6 episodes per season, this is one of those
00:49:22
shows where I could be like OK, I can I can get by with six
00:49:25
episodes per season just no Dragons so no 3000 year wait for
00:49:30
CGI right right. And and the other thing is
00:49:35
please don't make us wait 2-3 years for enough for the next
00:49:39
season. So I.
00:49:41
Think based on the content in the books, they might, they
00:49:45
might have convinced them that they could do another series
00:49:49
after this series, which would cover the Black Fire rebellions.
00:49:53
They could pick any one of the Black Fire rebellions, yeah.
00:49:57
Because there were a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:50:01
Because we. Killed the Jamie Kimmel Bowers.
00:50:03
When was the fact that there were no Dragons and no
00:50:05
Targaryens and that that was it was like, yeah, they watched it
00:50:14
and like any Dragons, no Dragons, no, what's the point?
00:50:20
We can do to a medieval show, Yeah.
00:50:23
But then there's no Dragons in this one either, because.
00:50:25
But they. Are the Dragons have already?
00:50:27
Died. But they're Targaryens.
00:50:29
Yeah, well. Yeah.
00:50:30
Yeah, you're right. Yeah.
00:50:33
So OK, but you know there are more than Targaryens in the Game
00:50:39
of Thrones. We know this, but do these
00:50:43
bills, 60 and 70 year old executives they interviewed, did
00:50:48
they know that at the time? Do they care?
00:50:51
I know no, because most. Executives are idiots and I
00:50:56
don't know how they became executives in the film and TV
00:50:59
industry. Girl, that's a whole other show
00:51:02
for us to discuss. Wait.
00:51:05
Disney bought it to be all right.
00:51:07
Didn't Disney buy it? No.
00:51:08
HBO is under Netflix with Warner Brothers on.
00:51:11
Netflix bought. Yeah, I'm a little.
00:51:15
Worried. They might change some things,
00:51:18
we'll see. Oh, it's so expensive.
00:51:20
Cancel, right? No one's.
00:51:23
Watching it cancel, no one's busy it cancel so.
00:51:29
Yeah, we'll see. Anybody have anything else they
00:51:33
want to say about this episode? I, I really liked it and I can
00:51:38
tell because I think I did read that George RR Martin is a
00:51:42
writer and executive producer. And just like in the beginning
00:51:47
of Game Game of Thrones, I can feel his influence watching it,
00:51:51
like it. It's very true to the work.
00:51:56
You don't really know how long this kind of goes on for.
00:51:59
Yeah, 'cause apparently he's already having issue, he's
00:52:02
having issues with House of the Dragon, so.
00:52:06
But at least. There are books that are done.
00:52:13
It's complete. So they have no reason to go out
00:52:18
after, Yeah. This is true.
00:52:21
This is true. So Star Wars.
00:52:23
Movies to make, so they'll be. I think they'll be fine.
00:52:26
Because the thing I was worried about was, is it going to feel
00:52:29
like Game of Thrones? It doesn't see how it does.
00:52:34
But it. Doesn't.
00:52:36
Yeah, it, but it doesn't. And I think the more we get into
00:52:40
it, this was just the first episode, I think the further we
00:52:42
get into it, I think the more it's going to feel like it
00:52:45
because there's got to be some political intrigue in the
00:52:48
background going. There has to be.
00:52:50
I also. Think it's because we didn't
00:52:51
spend a ton of time in the Reach.
00:52:53
I mean, we did go to Highgarden, you know, few, but like for the
00:52:57
most part we weren't really in the reach a lot.
00:52:59
And so that was. True when?
00:53:01
It gets to the King's Landing back in probably Croatia.
00:53:04
If they went back to Croatia, the film King Landing again,
00:53:06
we'll get that old time feeling, yeah back, you know?
00:53:12
Yeah. But also, I'm glad to say.
00:53:14
That we really haven't been in the reach, have we not?
00:53:17
Really. We went there when we visited
00:53:21
Olena, when they visited Olena at High Garden before.
00:53:23
But like for the most part, yeah.
00:53:25
Or not visited. Well, they went, they visited
00:53:27
before, but then they they went to go Burger home, Yes.
00:53:32
Till, till, till. Till.
00:53:34
Cersei, it was me. Oh.
00:53:36
I want her to know. Yeah, yeah.
00:53:39
But. But also, I mean, again, this is
00:53:42
a story about Sir Duncan Tall, which, you know, I, I don't know
00:53:47
enough about the story yet. I'm not that far into the hedge,
00:53:51
not yet where we know exactly where he goes.
00:53:55
So I don't even know if he goes to King's Landing or if he
00:53:58
stays, you know, kind of outside of the the city and, and does
00:54:04
his exports or whatever. So in that sense, it probably
00:54:09
still will kind of not feel like Game of Thrones because we may
00:54:14
not get the political entry because he said his character
00:54:17
seems like he will be so far removed from that.
00:54:20
You know, and I think again, it, it's one of the things that
00:54:23
they're showing us with this first episode, Like he's not
00:54:26
about the the political finesse. He's not about the ass kissing.
00:54:30
He's not about that type of he. He wasn't brought up in that
00:54:36
environment. But I would be worried that he
00:54:39
would be used as a pawn, like he might be manipulated to to cause
00:54:45
events to occur. You know what I mean?
00:54:48
That would be not necessarily something he instigated, but
00:54:52
it's obvious. It's obviously obviously that
00:54:55
we're looking at this world, how this world is through his eyes.
00:55:01
And I feel like he's going to get, I mean, I know what
00:55:04
happens, but I'm just saying, even just looking at it from
00:55:09
this perspective of this first episode, how close he is now.
00:55:13
Well, I say close air quotes to Lionel Baratheon and getting to
00:55:18
know the fossil weights and him trying to figure out a way to
00:55:21
get into this tournament. I feel like hopefully he's not
00:55:25
being, he's not going to be used as part of the public entry
00:55:29
because this is something that we've seen happen in Game of
00:55:33
Thrones before. You know, like with what was
00:55:37
Robert Gedrick injury. I was just about to say with
00:55:41
Gedrick. Being not necessarily knowing
00:55:44
what's happening, but being used as a as a chess piece in in the
00:55:48
game. And what did Cersei say?
00:55:52
You either man or kid dog that that would be my concern.
00:55:58
But yeah, I thought it was a good.
00:55:59
I thought it was a good introduction, a good episode.
00:56:02
Yeah. Very, very, very faithful to the
00:56:06
work. Very.
00:56:07
This is always. A good thing, yes.
00:56:09
Very because even like especially the 1st 15 minutes,
00:56:14
you literally if you read the hedge night and the way it
00:56:17
starts like the first scene is almost word for word.
00:56:22
You know, the actions, the scene, the the, the things that
00:56:27
Dunk does, it's very, very faithful.
00:56:31
Yeah, I did like that about it. And, and just the, the little
00:56:35
things that they changed were very minuscule, you know,
00:56:43
because I think the thing with, I think the thing with Dare on
00:56:46
where he says I had a dream about you.
00:56:48
He doesn't say that until a bit little bit later in the story,
00:56:52
but it's kind of like a premonition thing, which I'm OK.
00:56:56
I mean, it didn't change anything with the scene when he
00:57:00
said it in the end, it just kind of like, OK, so you're Targaryen
00:57:04
and you're claiming that you're dreaming about people.
00:57:06
OK, you got this. Like, all right, let's.
00:57:09
Let's see how that's going to work, you know?
00:57:12
Yeah. So I enjoyed it.
00:57:15
I think I'm going to enjoy this series.
00:57:18
I I do enjoy the character so far.
00:57:21
They are there are breath of fresh air from all of the drama
00:57:27
and seriousness that we've gotten from Game of Thrones.
00:57:31
And also. So yeah, I'm looking forward to
00:57:38
it. Just can we not have any more
00:57:41
any more of the body stuff? I don't.
00:57:43
I don't need it because between this and what we were dealing
00:57:48
with, an Outlander blood of my blood, I think Dina and I are
00:57:51
done with like we don't need any more of Bili.
00:57:55
Fluids I I. Don't need any more of that.
00:57:58
I don't. I don't.
00:57:59
I don't need to see what it looks like for medieval people
00:58:02
to take a shit. I, I, I don't.
00:58:05
I just don't need to see it, no. Yeah, no babies being born, no
00:58:08
poops, no vomit, no. I don't need to see a burst
00:58:13
scene in anything. But you know, it's Game of
00:58:16
Thrones. You know it's Game of Thrones.
00:58:19
We're going to see a lot of maiming and we're going to see a
00:58:21
lot of blood. And I can I can deal with the.
00:58:26
Blood. I don't even see anybody.
00:58:29
I don't need to see anybody relieve themselves.
00:58:31
That's just not something I need to see.
00:58:34
It's not a thing I get off on. It's not a thing I enjoy.
00:58:37
I just, I don't know. I don't need to see it.
00:58:41
No. So I so yeah, I don't have any
00:58:48
other final thoughts aside from from, you know, looking forward
00:58:52
to see what the rest of the episodes are like and how the
00:58:55
story is going to progress. So I guess that is it for our
00:58:59
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