Dunk says, “You were a true knight. You never beat me when I didn’t deserve it.” Cut to flashbacks of 3 slaps/punches in a row.
Back to adult to Dunk, “Except that time in Maidenpool. It was the inn boy ate the widow woman’s pie. Not me. I told you.” Cut to flashback of Dunk getting slapped.
And the reveal! Obviously, this starts the meat of the whole first Dunk & Egg story. I assume the reveal wasn’t a big shock to anyone, considering all the hints - was anyone not already familiar with the story surprised?
Great and hilarious episode. Loved Egg’s song in the tree and the breakdown of the bawdy Alice song.
Counterpoint: Bronn.
In fact, Bronn is proof that it is very possible for a commoner to become a knight and even a lord in this world, if they have enough talent and drive - and know the right people.
Right, but Bronn wasn’t young. He probably learned from years of fighting as a mercenary, rather than any sort of formal education. I think only the nobility, who can afford a skilled trainer, could be a very skilled fighter at a young age.
I knew from reading the Wikipedia articles on the subject.
And BTW I was going to ask why Egg was bald but now we know.
Good point, but I would argue that Bronn was
Still really enjoying this, but disliking waiting week to week for 30 minute episodes. I’ve said before that I think this would work great as a movie, and I still think that’s true, but I am enjoying the little scenes that probably would be cut if they needed to get rid of 50 minutes to get it to reasonable movie length.
I forgot to watch last night, and today we’re leaving on a 2-week vacation. I’ll probably wait until the series ends before picking up on Epi 3.
Then I’ll come back to this thread and read everybody’s opinions!
HBO is releasing the next episode on Friday to avoid the Super Bowl. Of course, we will then need to wait 9 days for the next.
My brother who is not familiar with the source material was. In fact his first question when the episode began was “why is this kid bald anyways”.
GOT connection spoiler after episode 3 reveal:
Egg gets a namecheck in ASOIAF, his brother Aemon, Maester of the night watch talks of him when he’s dying, Jon Snows viewpoint I think, could be Sams. Aemon got a mention (not by name) in that episode as the one who was probably going to become a maester.
He becomes Aegon v, Aegon the unlikely.
I’ve tried to add a second spoiler here, but the spoiler stuff on this message board software is messed up and bad, and has led to an undeleteable math chunk there.
(So…) Summerhall gets a mention there, I’ll talk a little about that in spoiler, warning, it also reveals the fate of Egg and co.
Summerhall is one of the often referenced big events in the ASOIAF which pretty much represents Georges overall strategy to referring to a big thing which started it all, but holding back on what fully happened. I think it was finding out about that which led Rhaegar to run off with Lyanna Stark, he was born on the day of the fire. Referred to by various viewpoints, the wiki points out that is where Egg dies, and I think Duncan, dies
Yes, but I don’t try to figure things out ahead of time anymore, I let the story unfold on its own. I find I enjoy them more that way.
Great! Are you enjoying the show?
I have been really enjoying this. I like the lighter tone and the focus on the Smallfolk. As far as the timeline, it is roughly 80 years after House of the Dragon and 90 years before Game of Thrones. There are definitely older folks who remember Dragons at this time or at lest knew they were real when they were children.
I am a little surprised the first episode didn’t hand hold a little and set the stage with something like “Nearly a Century after the Dance of Dragons and before Robert’s Rebellion our story begins”. Or something like that. Or even just a year on the screen. I could see a casual viewer just assume this was set at the same time as one show or the other at least at first.
They put in little details to let you know where the show fits, like Egg’s little rhyme about the Blackfyre Rebellion.
Due to the prophesy that egg got my brother, who has read none of the books but watched GoT and House of the Dragon now assumes Egg is going to be the Mad King. Was that the implication everyone else got?
Spoiler:
Egg is the Mad King’s grandfather. Also, the Mad King (Aerys II) died by sword, from Jaime Lannister, not by fire.
My speculation:
Egg, the future King Aegon V, does die in the tragedy at Summerhall (unexplained as of yet in lore, but presumed to involve fire and magic), but all other lore suggests he was a kind and decent King and, while he often angered the nobility by trying to improve the lives of the common people, would decidedly NOT have been hated by his family and most of those close to him… so if the prophecy is accurate, my guess is that he lingers in terrible pain after the fire tragedy, and his family is relieved when he finally dies and his suffering ends.
The history of Westeros is a known quantity so there is an answer to your question.
Egg is Aegon V who is a successful King but dies in fire trying to hatch Dragons
His grandson is Aeys II who is the Mad King.
I know who Egg is, I was asking if people who didn’t assumed the prophesy marked him as the mad king.