Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show I'm your host Paul aka the guy who's a Daemon in the
sack and this video we're breaking down the new Game Of Thrones Spin-Off A Knight Of The
Seven Kingdoms. Recently announced the social media team behind the show have been slowly
putting out teasers and we recently got a title reveal over the top of a map.
But what exactly is the show and what can we expect to see in it?
Well that's what we're gonna be breaking down in this video so come join our house as we
get into what the premise of the book is. This will probably contain some spoilers but
I'm gonna try and keep things centred around what the show is rather than the big deaths
and so on.
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Of The Seven Kingdoms.
Now the book itself was released back in 2015 and it's basically a collection of the first
three Dunk and Egg stories by George RR Martin. The one we'll be centring around was first
published in 1998 but they were all brought in for this short collection.
These are called the Sworn Sword, The Mystery Knight and the first of these is titled The
Hedge Knight. That is the book that this series is going to be based on with its full title
being A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms The Hedge Knight.
Gonna be the longest title ever and a nightmare for my youtube tags but this narrows it down
to what the books gonna be about.
This is set roughly 90-100 years before the events of the original Game Of Thrones and
it's sandwiched right in between the events of House of the Dragon and GOT. All the stuff
with Rhaenyra happened 200 years before the emmergence of Daneyrs so we are kinda getting
the stuff in between to pad things out. I'd imagine that the Catspaw dagger pops up at
some point and we can kinda see how it ends up going from House Of The Dragon and then
into the main series.
Now I did say that we wouldn't spoil any of the big deaths but we do need to talk about
one in order to kinda set up what the premise of the show is.
Now the story really kicks off when a hedge knight known as Ser Arlan of Pennytree dies
and then from here his squire Dunk decides to take over the reigns and work his way up
to competing in a torunament as a knight. Taking Ser Arlan's armour, horses and everything
he left behind Dunk sets out to Ashford which is where the torunament will go down. Along
the way he meets a character called Egg who he takes on as his Squire.
Egg is called Egg because he has a shaved head and therefore looks like a bit of an
egg.
That's how you get dunk and egg and this video is sponsored by Dunking Eggs.
Now I haven't actually seen A Knights Tale yeah...haven't seen it, but yeah it's one
of those films where I feel like I can imagine the plot and what I imagine it to be is basically
this.
Upon reaching Ashford Dunk is turned away because he can't prove he's a knight but then
Baelor Targaryen steps in and vouches for him. Again haven't seen it, just imagine that
something like that happens in that movie. Let me know in the comments below that it
doesn't.
Now the tournament is a big event and I can expect it to kinda riff on the one from the
main series and house of the dragon. If you cast your mind back to how the mountain made
his debut then he did it by killing a horse after losing in the joust. The event has a
similar thing happen at it with Aerion Targaryen going crazy and him killing Ser Humfrey Hardyngs
horse.
This causes a lot of s**t at the games because it's a big no no in terms of etiquette.
Now that night Aerion ended up being your usual typical drunk Targaryen and he beat
up a girl which caused Dunk to leap to her defense. She was a puppeteer and plays a big
part in the story with her being the apple of Dunks eye.
Now it's during this fight that we get one of the big reveals with Egg and we learn that
he's actually Aerions brother.
Turns out that the shaven head was done for a specific reason which was to hide the classic
Targaryen golden locks.
Egg Targaryen, you kinda see where thats going and Egg goes onto be Aegon the fifth. Everything
kinda ramps up to a big battle between Dunk and Aerion which will likely be what the series
centres around.
There's a lot of things that they can do with this series and though it's probably gonna
be a short limited one you never know. The Dance Of The Dragons actually doest go over
that many chapters and we've seen how theyve turend that into a big season spanning series.
I think what will likely happen is that if this series is successful then they will probably
adapt the other two books in the collection.
Now unfortunately this is gonna be a show thats hit by the writers strike.
On a blog post that dropped April 17th, George RR martin said that Writing was well underway.
During this he revealed that the pilot script have been completed in full and that the rest
of the series was currently being worked on.
However it wasn't too long until the writers strike hit and this slowed everything right
down.
Dropping another post Martin confirmed that the entire writers room had closed and that
it would be shut down for the entire strike. So depending on when the resolution to this
is depends on when the show will be resumed. They've then gotta write, cast, build the
sets, film, edit and so on. Gonna take quite a while and I was thinking that the show would
be released at the end of 2024 potentially. However with the delays being on going I think
that it's probably gonna be 2025 at the earliest.
It all depends when things get worked out by and at the moment there's also rumours
that SAG could go on strike too. I think come next year we are gonna see a lot of delays
and coming off the back of the pandemic means its been a rough time in hollywood.
I think that they might even do a thing to fill the gaps in between House of The Dragon
seasons which I think would be the smartest thing to do. So even if it was ready by 2024
then they might not want to drop it due to that probably being a House of The Dragon
Year. Disney to me have been over doing it with their multiple releases a year and I've
noticed that it does kill the interest in a show. With House Of The Dragon seasons taking
about two years to make they'll probably do that one year and then potentially alternate
with the rest of the Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms collection.
Now George RR Martin also teased that there might be more Dunk and Egg stories coming
down the line.
On his blog he said:
“Before we reach the end of the published stories, I will need to find time to write
all the other Dunk & Egg novellas that I have planned."
Just...just finish the main book first mate, f**k all this s**t just get the main book
done.
Anyway that would mean that they have a lot of things to pull from so this could even
be a 4 or 5 season show that goes beyond just the three Novellas.
By then they might also have the rumoured Jon Snow series set up and we could get three
Game Of Thrones titles running concurrently. I think it might get to that point too as
House Of The Dragon was big business for HBO and the game of thrones universe has gone
back to being their flagship title. So good everyone forgot about Season 8 which means
it has to be the best show of all time.
Now we could use this setting as a springboard to set up things like the mad king. Wouldnt
be for a while but this show could explore the constant inbreeding that eventually led
to his creation. The Targaryens still hold the throne at this point but we could continue
to see the seeds being sewn that causes it to all come crashing down.
I actually think its a great idea to set up these two characters in Dunk and Egg and then
we could follow them through there lives and see what they get up to. They could do something
like the Mandalorian where it's a Lone Wolf and Cub series which I think is an aesthetic
that would be perfect for this show.
They may even link things together with the house of the dragon and dunk and egg seasons
where we see some locations being smashed up in the past and then revisit them further
down the lne to learn what happened. Just hope Joffrey doesnt show up and drop some
big spoilers cos man actually ruined the end of House Of The Dragon if you go back and
watch the main show.
You f**king dick.
Youre such a f**king dick mate.
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