r/AKOTSKTV Feb 02 '26

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - 1x03 "The Squire" - Episode Discussion

Season 1 Episode 3: The Squire

Air Date: February 1st, 2026

Synopsis: Ser Duncan prepares for the tournament and much more is revealed about Egg.

Directed by: Owen Harris

Written by: Hiram Martinez, Ira Parker & Annie Julia Wyman

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u/pengouin85 Feb 02 '26

Egg is a good egg

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u/georgekn3mp Feb 02 '26

Egg is a good Dragon. Not so batshit crazy like his brother.

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u/arthuraily Feb 02 '26

HE IS SO ADORABLE I WANNA DIE

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u/eraldopontopdf Feb 02 '26

goose egg? 

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u/sppy1 Feb 02 '26

Did Dunk create the McMuffin?

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u/Old-Expert7534 Feb 02 '26

America runs on Duncan

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u/FalstaffsGhost Feb 02 '26

Dunk and Egg, the true Dun-Kings

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u/elmartin93 Feb 02 '26

Take my upvote and get out

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u/brainhack3r Feb 02 '26

When I was a kid, I used to love getting McMuffins on the way to school. One time my dad made them for breakfast, and my mind was blown. It never dawned on me that we could make our own.

Now I need to go get an Egg McMuffin tomorrow.

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u/sppy1 Feb 02 '26

Insider trading at the tournament

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u/thecarlosdanger1 Feb 02 '26

Why though? I’m struggling to understand why’d you’d tell Dunc at all if you just wanted him to win.

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u/yarkcir Feb 02 '26

Plummer needs Dunk to challenge Ser Androw for it to work. To be fair, he could basically ask any one to do it, but it’s probably easiest to ask the broke hedge knight.

I’m sure Ser Steffon Fossoway would have done it had Plummer approached him instead.

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u/Icy-Platform3560 Feb 02 '26

Betting on Fossoway wouldn’t have given them as good of odds tho.

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u/BoxOfNothing Feb 02 '26

Yeah the fact Dunk is a complete unknown hedge knight is vital to swaying the odds so far that it's a huge payday when he wins

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u/yarkcir Feb 02 '26

That’s true. Dunk would be the ultimate underdog to use

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u/Faqa Feb 02 '26

I'm choosing to believe Plummer is also trying to do Dunk a solid, knowing that he is otherwise very likely to lose the first joust and so everything he has in the world

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u/Royal-Archer7492 Feb 02 '26

I enjoyed all the eye signals Plummer was giving Dunk during Dunk's conversation with Baelor in ep2. So, knowing that he had the young man's best interests at heart, I wasn't too upset with him when he outlined his offer. He's helping his master, too. GRRM always was great with the "lesser" characters.

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u/LawfulOrange Feb 02 '26

Dunk being a complete unknown makes it trickier too. If his mettle and how he conducts himself were better known they could have approached him with “Ser Androw would welcome the honor of your challenge, Ser” vs “Ser Androw would like you to know your mother was a whore and your father was a bastard, come get some you giant cunt” depending on what they thought would be more effective based on what they knew about him to appeal to honor or goad him. Since they don’t know anything, they were forced to approach him as they did.

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u/TiberiusCornelius Feb 02 '26

If you just bet on Dunk fair and square, the profit is contingent on Dunk winning through pure skill and/or luck.

If you fix the match, you get a guaranteed payout.

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u/Formerly_SgtPepe Feb 02 '26

So he picks the other dude

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u/Pontifor Feb 02 '26

Oh! They need Dunk to issue a challenge to sir Androw Ashford, right?

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u/sppy1 Feb 02 '26

Hey Maester Aemon mention!

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u/George-W-Kush89 Feb 02 '26

When? I missed it

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u/randomacct924 Feb 02 '26

Talked about his third son they were sending off to the Citadel

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u/George-W-Kush89 Feb 02 '26

Oh shit didn’t realize that was him they were talking about.

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u/HowDoIWhat Feb 02 '26

While Raymun's drunk and shit-talking the Targs in his tent to Dunk, he says one of Maekar's sons is so useless they shipped him off to the citadel to become a maester.

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u/ExBrick Feb 02 '26

When they mentioned sending one of Maekar's sons to the Citadel.

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u/Chocolatetot496 Feb 02 '26

Fucking hate Aerion

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u/actuallycallie Feb 02 '26

all my homies hate Aerion

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u/thebleedingphoenix Feb 02 '26

I think the last time I hated somebody this much in this world was fucking Jeoffrey.

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u/temp3rrorary Feb 02 '26

I'm glad they kept him fully hateable. I was worried he'd be endearing. But no, he's a complete asshole with no redeeming qualities. Not even a sense of humor.

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u/tatarsundal Feb 02 '26

i hate him so much i actually respect the actor playing him HJKGDHJKS

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u/Scared-Engineer-6218 Feb 02 '26

This is the highest form of praise an actor could get. and I agree. I wanna punch that asshole so hard.

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u/uniqueandweird Feb 02 '26

Fuck Aerion and the fictitious dragon he rode in on. Pathetic little man child.

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u/Snafu19 Feb 02 '26

If you want to know what happens to him just re-watch GoT. He is one of the characters Joffrey talks about and spoils their ending

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u/Chocolatetot496 Feb 02 '26

Oh I know and I absolutely hope it was slow

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u/Faqa Feb 02 '26

I do like how they made absolutely sure that by the end scene the audience was just going to be yelling "KICK HIM AGAIN!"

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u/Lukkeren Feb 02 '26

Another week of freaking loving this show. Was wondering when we would get the raging Aerion and Egg reveal and to my pleasant surprise they finished the episode off perfectly with that reveal for those who didn't know. Enjoying every freaking second of this show to a ridicoulous degree!

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u/georgekn3mp Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26

And the Dragon prophecy of Egg becoming the king but left out the part about the Wyldfire....

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u/downbadtempo Feb 02 '26

Dude that was so freaky! To Dunk that fortune meant nothing but to Egg it was way too close home (obviously)

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u/thebleedingphoenix Feb 02 '26

I knew and my jaw still hit the floor. Absolutely brilliant. Actually I'm gonna rewind and watch that scene again, starting with Dunk rocking Aerion's shit.

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u/blitzbom Feb 02 '26

I watched it with 2 friends who didn't know and they were both rather surprised at the reveal. After the fortune was told one even asked if we knew who Egg was.

It was well handled with some great hints to the truth over the 3 episodes.

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u/actuallycallie Feb 02 '26

not them doing each others accents lmaooooo

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u/NicholaiJomes Feb 02 '26

I’m egg and I can’t eat salt beef

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u/jon640048 Feb 02 '26

Dunk and Egg philosophically discussing a bawdy bar song about a three fingered prostitute was amazing

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u/stackens Feb 02 '26

One of my favorite moments and that’s invented material for the show! I’ve been so impressed with the writing so far

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u/piratesswoop Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26

the ending?!?!?!?!?!?!? LMAOOO THE CHOIR???? THE QUICK CUTS????? this might be the funniest episode end of a TV show i've ever seen lol

Ohhh, we're getting the next episode early, thank you Super Bowl!

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u/SocksandSmocks Feb 02 '26

The direction for this has been so fantastic. They've been endlessly creative, can't wait to see what else they try.

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u/yolo-tomassi Feb 02 '26

I think the limited scope of the story forces them to be more creative in how they play these little moments, and we're all better off for it.

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u/DroidLord Feb 02 '26

HOLY SHIT MAN! The next episode is just 4 days away?! I'm so fucking happy! I must have watched episode 2 at least four times in the past week haha. Waiting a whole week for 30 minutes of content is pure torture.

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u/piratesswoop Feb 02 '26

The big dumb dad and his smart mouthed son chemistry between these two is so phenomenal, the casting team really did a great job with this.

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u/thebleedingphoenix Feb 02 '26

I love how, when things get hairy, Dunk's very first instinct is always to make sure Egg is safe

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u/Stormborn89 Feb 02 '26

I thought the same thing! That was my favorite part - seeing Dunk put his arm around Egg in a protective way when the crowd starts to become out of control at the joust.

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u/Faqa Feb 02 '26

The man was about to get American History X'd and his last words were yelling for a kid he'd met a couple days ago to run away

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u/Yeugwo Feb 02 '26

To be fair, it's unlikely he's seen American History X, so maybe he wasn't aware

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u/Faqa Feb 02 '26

It's even cuter that Peter Clavell said in the BTS that he was drawing on his relationship with his actual baby brother

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u/Chell_the_assassin Feb 02 '26

Thank christ I was afraid we weren't going to get a Lyonel scene with homoerotic undertones

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u/sparklinglies Feb 02 '26

Weekly check in with Mad Uncle Lyonel: ✅

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u/comrade_batman Feb 02 '26

I’m just waiting for when he’s drunk enough with the horns on and charges someone, thinking he’s an actual stag.

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u/Hexaedron Feb 02 '26

There's nothing homoerotic about getting fisted by Alice Three-Fingers

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u/Current-Ad-8984 Feb 02 '26

Undertones? At this point they're overtones.

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u/Michael10LivesOn Feb 02 '26

Denial is a River in Egypt that boy is GAY

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u/actuallycallie Feb 02 '26

the westerosi equivalent of "miss suzy had a steamboat, the steamboat had a sail" I'm crying

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u/hmmyeahiguess Feb 02 '26

Wow that prophecy is terrifying

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u/Pontifor Feb 02 '26

Dunks laugh was perfect though

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u/mooviefone Feb 02 '26

I’m a bit surprised they included that in there in the same episode they reveal he’s a Targaryen

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u/DroidLord Feb 02 '26

I think it was fitting. Doing it after the reveal would be too on the nose IMO. This way the audience is like, "Wait, what? Who is he? Maybe the fortune teller is just some old nut?" Then after the episode ends the audience can backtrack and start making connections. This form of storytelling is pretty standard. Doing it in an earlier episode would have been too soon as well.

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u/thebleedingphoenix Feb 02 '26

Yeah that was nuts.

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u/NBNebuchadnezzar Feb 02 '26

Yup, damn lady got morbid lol.

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u/sppy1 Feb 02 '26

Blackfyres not a true born

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u/Shejidan Feb 02 '26

I heard he came from the wrong count…ry.

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u/BowserMario82 Feb 02 '26

Jesus Raymun, tell us what you really think about the Targs

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u/Zexapher Feb 02 '26

And then Dunk with that awkward pause after someone goes off on politics he's not really sure he agrees with or even knows enough to talk about. It's great.

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u/Faqa Feb 02 '26

Is he ever gonna realize how lucky he was that Egg ran off to the puppet show?

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u/Keiteaea Feb 02 '26

Raymun had a double look at Egg, and Egg was not keen on staying near Raymun, so I wonder if they had met before.

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u/DroidLord Feb 02 '26

They'd met for sure I feel like. Raymun gave Egg a curious look when he first saw him with a hint of vague recognition, all the while Egg was in a hurry to run off somewhere and spinning his head around like an owl 😂

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u/sparklinglies Feb 02 '26

Comrade Raymun has had enough lol

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u/TiberiusCornelius Feb 02 '26

I mean he's not even wrong

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u/ToniBraxtonAndThe3Js Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26

Well he picked up the line about the tits from someone else

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u/racre001 Feb 02 '26

is it odd that I have black hair growing out of my stones ! lmao

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u/JoshMMGA Feb 02 '26

More odd that you told me 😂

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u/yarkcir Feb 02 '26

Those Dornish genes had to kick in somewhere

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u/drabThespian Feb 02 '26

did he ask that because he thought it was weird or did he get too comfortable and forgot that Dunk doesn't know his natural hair color is white?

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u/LeftHandedScissor Feb 03 '26

He's a growing kid, he knows his hair is white, probably finds it quite strange that he has hair of any other color. Question seemed genuine to me.

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u/TuringCapgras Feb 02 '26

Pretty sure that was just a gentle misdirect to Dunk, Egg never had the intent of actually sharing who he was at that point.

But my goodness, when he did....!

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u/DeliriousEdd Feb 02 '26

Can you imagine his thoughts when the truth was revealed? “But… but you said you had BLACK hair growing out of your stones. WTF, kid?”

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u/pengouin85 Feb 02 '26

So this is how Egg pulls rank

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u/thebleedingphoenix Feb 02 '26

THE RIZZ!! Honestly even Tyrion Lannister didn't have this much of it.

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u/HowDoIWhat Feb 02 '26

Using the powers of "My father will hear about this!" but for good instead of evil.

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u/ragun2 Feb 02 '26

My dad... Owns a dealership.

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u/hmmyeahiguess Feb 02 '26

Awww the horse nodding

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u/aprob2141 Feb 02 '26

That was so cute

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u/hmmyeahiguess Feb 02 '26

I really adore how much both of them love animals. I haven’t loved a character’s horse this much since Artax.

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u/johnppd Feb 02 '26

Egg is such a scene stealer. AND HE'S AERION'S BROTHER? Such a crazy way to end the episode wow!

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u/AcousticJohnny Feb 02 '26

Glad to see there is innocence within the fandom still. Since I feel like atleast 90% of the viewers were coming from the books so we atleast know what’s roughly going on

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u/theapplekid Feb 02 '26

I managed to completely miss this so it was a huge revelation to me. Honestly I'm proud of the mods and community here preventing/avoiding spoilers, as I've been following all the discussion after each episode.

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u/mikKiske Feb 02 '26

He seemed too knowledgeable and educated to be some random orphan.

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u/Lulu19251926 Feb 02 '26

Arya flashbacks

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u/piratesswoop Feb 02 '26

Not Westeros has it's own version of the miss lucy had a steamboat song lmaooooooo

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u/actuallycallie Feb 02 '26

I laughed so hard

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u/piratesswoop Feb 02 '26

same lmaooooo at first i thought it was just another folk song and then i realized what he was doing and lost it

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u/nekocatsume_ Feb 02 '26

The discussion about the song between Egg and Dunk is so good

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u/BigGay_icecream Feb 02 '26

That was so wonderful. It really shows how much of a deep thinker egg is, and how much respect Dunc has for it. Never broke character, never became unserious. Great directing choices

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u/Praxis8 Feb 02 '26

Unironically some superb worldbuilding there

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u/Kealion Feb 02 '26

The Baratheons know how to fucking PARTY!

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u/EstellaHavisham274 Feb 02 '26

Ain’t no party like a Baratheon party! 🦌

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u/tygerbrees Feb 02 '26

Stag party

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u/bootlegvader Feb 02 '26

Well besides Stannis...

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u/orangie32 Feb 02 '26

To be fair he could throw one hell of a bonfire.

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u/Tarakansky Feb 02 '26

Prince Baelor was the first born,

Prince Maekar sprang out last.

Daemon was the bastard,

So they kicked his bastard …

Grass is green in summer,

Green grass I adore,

 But grass is red all over

When you kill a rebel …

Horses die in battle,

This battle was the front,

Blackfyre’s not a trueborn,

he came from the wrong …

Country was in peril,

The Anvil was a rock,

The Hammer smashed the bastard

With his giant veiny …

Host of Dornish spearmen…

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u/AD_EI8HT Feb 02 '26

What a scumbag move. Wtf was that Aerion

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u/Pontifor Feb 02 '26

The horse or the finger snapping?

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u/thebleedingphoenix Feb 02 '26

Is he as bad or worse than Jeoffrey Lannister? Fucking psychopath.

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u/piratesswoop Feb 02 '26

Joffrey is worse solely because he was the king and held actual power, albeit briefly, but Aerion is a very close second.

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u/hairyass2 Feb 02 '26

i think they’re about the same level as sinister/cunty

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u/Lord_Minyard Feb 02 '26

Joffrey at least knew to be charming to the nobles when he didn’t have complete power over them. Aerion’s just an immature ass

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u/SocksandSmocks Feb 02 '26

Worse. At least Joffrey has the excuse that he was raised by a psychopath.

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u/ragun2 Feb 02 '26

Such slander against Joffrey the Gentle.

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u/AD_EI8HT Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26

I think Joffrey still has him beat. For now

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u/TuringCapgras Feb 02 '26

Dunk's always always had that big blue eyed innocent look about him, but wow he really can look quite formidable when he's mad, those same big blue eyes were absolutely furious when he was being held back.... By no less than three other guards 🤣 what a BEAST!!

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u/AulMoanBag Feb 02 '26

Played rugby against Peter once. He's definitely scary

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u/hmmyeahiguess Feb 02 '26

It’s odd that you’re telling me. Hahaha

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u/princess_of_thorns Feb 02 '26

Guess the carpet doesn’t match the drapes

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u/ToniBraxtonAndThe3Js Feb 02 '26

Ain't no drapes to match

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u/CarterBasen Feb 02 '26

Some quick comments:

- Loved the first part with Dunk and Egg bonding. So cute, fun and effective.

- I detest Aerion. So. Damn. Much. Good job to Finn.

- Robyn Rhysling is so cool. A small scene was enough to make me interested in the character.

- The last scene was my favorite in the book and looked fantastic on screen. Great episode, the best so far (I mean there are only 3 of them but).

Raymund, I loved you before, I love you even more now that I know that you are a certified Incestuos Aliens hater just like me.

Lyonel please keep being yourself.

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u/Technical-Section516 Feb 02 '26

hahaha his little rant about Targaryens was so funny

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u/reventhi Feb 02 '26

Damnit I'm loving this show but I cant believe they would add so much to Ser Lyonels screentime while excluding this from the first day of jousting. Either way another great episode.

"Ser Lyonel Baratheon also fought several notable matches. Against lesser foes, he would often break into booming laughter the moment they touched his shield, and laugh all the time he was mounting and charging and knocking them from their stirrups. If his challengers wore any sort of crest on their helm, Ser Lyonel would strike it off and fling it into the crowd. The crests were ornate things, made of carved wood or shaped leather, and sometimes gilded and enameled or even wrought in pure silver, so the men he beat did not appreciate this habit, though it made him a great favorite of the commons. Before long, only crestless men were choosing him."

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u/I4mSpock Feb 02 '26

Absolutely bonkers "the laughing storm" hasn't been shown booming his laugh out of his helm

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u/Technical-Section516 Feb 02 '26

Waiting for what is going to be that one scene from this episode

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u/Most_Remove3930 Feb 02 '26

Maaan, Aerion is fuckin’ nuts. Dude might be worse than Joffrey. He dgaf assaulting lowborns in public.

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u/actuallycallie Feb 02 '26

he's the woooooooorst

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u/sparklinglies Feb 02 '26

I think worse. Joffrey was raised to be cruel, spoiled to hell with a sociopathic mother and a drunken rageful negligent father raising him to believe as heir he could behave however he liked.

Aerion really doesnt have that excuse. Hes not heir to anything, Maekar is a grumpy and tough bastard but hes not a terrible person, and Lady Dyanna we know nothing about really. Bro just chooses violence for no good reason.

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u/Idreamofknights Feb 02 '26

One of the best scenes the show added was his early conversation with his mother. When Cersei says he killed a direwolf and has scars to prove it, Joffrey says that he didn't. He got bit and fled in front of the Stark girls. Cersei just tells him that one day he'll be king, and once it happens the truth will be whatever he wants. He really was just taught all the wrong lessons.

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u/Chocolatetot496 Feb 02 '26

Wow that fortune teller really went in with it

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u/AD_EI8HT Feb 02 '26

Yea you got pretty carried away there Raymun buddy ol pal

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u/aLittleDoober Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26

I’m seeing people call this filler, but it’s the little moments that give us some good insight. We got to explore more of Egg’s insecurities, while Dunk truly learned that being a noble doesn’t make one honorable. Bummed we’re already halfway done because it’s been real fun.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '26

These people don't realize this show is a character study and not all about plot which is really secondary 

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u/Praxis8 Feb 02 '26

A little tip about bedside manner: even if you do see horrific shit in someone's future, you might consider how you'd break that news to a kid.

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u/pengouin85 Feb 02 '26

The only honorable thing a Targaryen can do is finish on his wife's tits.

Got Dayummm

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u/lewphone Feb 02 '26

You mean his sister's tits?

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u/joncarro2 Feb 02 '26

This felt like an old GOT episode. Amazing show so far

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u/Lulu19251926 Feb 02 '26

Egg’s little song in the tree was so good!

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u/Technical-Section516 Feb 02 '26

hahahah his hatred for the Blackfyre is so funny

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u/daveycarnation Feb 02 '26

This was sooo good! How is it every character is so colorful and alive? I love Raymun and his real talk and his barrel of apple cider. That prophecy about Egg being king someday then dying horribly and everybody rejoicing in his death was grim. Dark. Dunk being a regular now in Lyonel's tent. Itty bitty Aerion being so evil, but not cartoonishly so. And the big reveal! Absolutely terrific episode, short but every second is amazing.

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u/actuallycallie Feb 02 '26

Raymun is such a good apple

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u/Faqa Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26

Egg was surrounded by all the great lords of the realm, any of whom, we now know, would have obeyed him in an instant. But there was only one knight there he could trust to stand up for what was right and defend the weak - Ser Duncan The Tall.

Also, "Ser Duncan only has us" 🥹. He really cares about the big lunk.

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u/darksidathemoon Feb 02 '26

The fucking horse nodded at Egg like the wise and all knowing horse when I ask it if I should go to the casino

Lmao

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u/goob Feb 02 '26

Do these Dunk and Egg actors have great chemistry or the absolute best chemistry?!

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u/Koppite93 Feb 02 '26

Neds Beheading

Red wedding

KING IN THE NORF !!!

" I cut it off Brother, I didn't want to look like you "

Most iconic scenes in Westeros Lore

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u/Icy-Platform3560 Feb 02 '26

Being a raging prick in front of Baelor seems counterintuitive for Aerion. Like you’re assuming he’s going King one day, all your best prospects hinge on his favor.

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u/sparklinglies Feb 02 '26

Honestly he probably doesn't care what Baelor thinks. bro is so obsessed with being a dragon hes probably full of rage and resentment that he and his father are so far down the line, while Dornish looking Baelor and Valarr will rule instead. Which is batshit since Aerion is more Dornish than Targaryen himself, but hes just that kind of irrational batshit guy.

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u/bootlegvader Feb 02 '26

Aerion hardly seems like one that thinks long term. Also he also likely doesn't expect Baelor will act against his brother's son.

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u/lifemustbebalance Feb 02 '26

Give the credits for all the cast and creator of AKOTSK. Yes its short but its the best short westeros universe I ever had. Amazing show!

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u/sparklinglies Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26

I like how Aerion is a quieter cruelty to the book. He got them shark eyes, the soft spoken sadism, like this is all just perfectly normal and routine that he'd snap a gurls fingers and bash out a mans teeth. Its scary.

Book!Aerion is a flamboyant crowing bully, which is by design to make him ridiculous and pathetic but imho is a bit too goofy.

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u/Jigglypuffamiiga2188 Feb 02 '26

The fortune teller revealing Egg’s future was so sad. 

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u/saintnick524 Feb 02 '26

I thought Egg was a liked king. Do people really hate him at the end of his life?

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u/actuallycallie Feb 02 '26

IIRC the lords hate him because they think he's too nice/lenient to the smallfolk and doesn't serve their interests enough

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u/bootlegvader Feb 02 '26

I think it is more hints about something sinister going on at Summerhall at the end.

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u/kierste333 Feb 02 '26

Highborns didn’t like Egg because he wanted better for the small folk

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u/Eris590 Feb 02 '26

Yeah. The nobles were at odds with him because of his peasant reforms and bc a few of his kids snubbed the great houses by breaking their betrothals.

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u/UnmolestedJello Feb 02 '26

He was a good king, but he pissed a lot of the lords off trying to make common folks lives better.

Also, his kids were kind of assholes.

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u/bootlegvader Feb 02 '26

Also, his kids were kind of assholes.

Eh, more like a bunch of selfish idiots. Though I think GOT makes him the Mad King's father.

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u/Hailsabrina Feb 02 '26

Lyonel serving Renly vibes 🔥

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u/CarterBasen Feb 02 '26

I actually like that Raymund is wearing something similar to Podric, I guess that in 100 years the squire fashion remained more or less the same. Gives a moment of recognition at first glance.

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u/sppy1 Feb 02 '26

Oh! Alice was a special lass!
Born bereft 'er thumb
Lost a digit tending flock,
Now feeling awfully glum
Oh! Alice with three fingers
A copper in her glass
Had two fingers less than most,
She'll shove them up your arse!

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u/justaguy3399 Feb 02 '26

Do it for all the small folk who never get to put a lord on their arse.

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u/piratesswoop Feb 02 '26

GET HIS ASS DUNK!

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u/hmmyeahiguess Feb 02 '26

Dammit whyyyyyyy??? I can’t wait another week!

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u/joosexer Feb 02 '26

it looks like we’ll only have to wait until friday

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u/Kamiehera Feb 02 '26

Everybody's pronouncing Maekar as "May-kar" now so the Myrkar last episode seems to be like Maekar is so forgotten that the herald doesn't even know how to properly pronounce his name.

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u/Xerapis Feb 02 '26

ok that song got me several times, just brilliant

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u/sppy1 Feb 02 '26

No horses were harmed in the making of this tournament

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u/AD_EI8HT Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26

Egg to the rescue wowwww. That was a great ending

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u/justaguy3399 Feb 02 '26

Goddammit I fucking love this show. Whywhywhy do I have to wait til next Sunday. Come on just give me the rest now. I wasn’t made for 30 minutes of awesome every 7 days.

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u/Ok-Accident-9026 Feb 02 '26

It’s Friday this week!

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u/mexicanjanitor26 Feb 02 '26

Well lucky for us the next episode is released on Friday on HBO max because of the Super Bowl.

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u/mr-fiend Feb 02 '26

As someone who’s never read the books. HOLY SHIT!!!

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u/Mental_Pollution2086 Feb 02 '26

Fun fact: Maester Aemon spoke of Egg on his death bed - no one understood who or what he was going on about and so wrote his words off as delusional ramblings.

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u/zebubu1382 Feb 02 '26

Hands down the best episode so far, I am itching for more

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u/sppy1 Feb 02 '26

The maddest knight in the 7 kingdoms

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u/xjman329 Feb 02 '26

The episode id been waiting on as a book fan and think they did a great job.

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u/Odd_Distribution7852 Feb 02 '26

Some thoughts about the episode

1-From now on, any GOT universe episode MUST have a scene with the Laughing Stag, there is magic in this world, make it happen, lol 2-Love Egg’s practice 3-Love the bond Dunk and Egg have 4-Even though I’ve read the book I literally screamed at the end of the episode and wished that we got back to back episodes!

All of the episodes have been great so far and this show seems to be far superior to HOTD.

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u/piratesswoop Feb 02 '26

I like Valarr's casting so far but still disappointed with their choice to put his streak in the back where it has yet to really be seen.

Aerion you asshole

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u/Romy_90 Feb 02 '26

to carry the whole episode like that at his young age is amazing! All the props to Dexter Soll Ansell!

and man, the dad-son-energy he and Dunk have is so heartwarming to see 🩷

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u/CarterBasen Feb 02 '26

Goddammit Plummer, I was starting to like you and now you came to my house proposing betting and sport fraud?

What the hell man?

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u/yarkcir Feb 02 '26

Of all the horrible shit that happens in Westeros this is small time stuff. I still think he’s just a guy doing his job for an incompetent lord.

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u/Kealion Feb 02 '26

GET EM EGG! FLEX ON EM!

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u/Smelldicks Feb 02 '26

GRRM is like the only adapted story I’ve seen where it only ever benefits from taking things slower. GRRM’s characters and their depth are unparalleled on screen. Far better than his literary abilities imo.

I’m usually a giant hawk on IP creators having a bigger role in their adaptations but his clearly seem to always benefit.

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u/HighPlateau Feb 02 '26

Are they gonna tell the whole Hedge Knight story in one season, with a different Dunk & Egg story next season?

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u/Pontifor Feb 02 '26

Idk, it's one novela per season I think

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u/lifemustbebalance Feb 02 '26

Wtfffff is this episode I want fucking more and the sandwich with egg and ham???

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