A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Episode 3 Review

This reappraisal contains afloat spoilers for this week’s occurrence of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

“I deliberation I could beryllium rather blessed successful a spot similar this.” Aww, mediocre Egg. A tranquil beingness successful the state doesn’t look to beryllium what destiny has successful store for him because, arsenic we larn successful the closing moments of this week’s occurrence (“The Squire”), Egg is really Prince Aegon V Targaryen.

“Egg” (Dexter Sol Ansell) is the lad of Prince Maekar (Sam Spruell) and kid member of some large jackass Prince Aerion (Finn Bennett) and the aged Maester Aemon of The Night’s Watch successful Game of Thrones. (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is acceptable astir 90 years earlier the events of the flagship series.)

This revelation happens aft Dunk (Peter Claffey) does what immoderate bully knight should bash and travel to the assistance of a damsel successful distress, successful this lawsuit the puppeteer Tanselle (Tanzyn Crawford) who is being assaulted by Aerion for her puppet amusement depicting the slaying of a dragon. To Aerion, her amusement is tantamount to treason due to the fact that it depicts a awesome of the ruling Targaryen household being killed. (Aerion isn’t wholly incorrect astir that symbolism, caput you, if the vitriolic disdain towards the Targaryens by the likes of Raymun Fossoway is immoderate indicator of nationalist sentiment.) Dunk past unleashes a beating connected Aerion up until Egg’s involution saves him from the guards.

"Dunk’s increasing disillusionment with knighthood is his overriding arc this season.“

Dunk and the different non-Targaryens contiguous are floored by the revelation that Egg, the squire to a lowly hedge knight, is really a prince of the realm. Although Egg’s behaviour has been somewhat evasive and funny successful the past 2 episodes, we present cognize wherefore this kid’s bald (“I chopped it off, brother. I don’t privation to look similar you.”) and knows truthful overmuch astir knights and the Great Houses.

Dunk’s increasing disillusionment with knighthood is his overriding arc this season, and if his doubts astir knights were planted successful Episode 2, past seeing Aerion’s dastardly and purposeful cheating astatine the Ashford tourney and consequent punishment of Tanselle were the last straws. (Oh, and he’s besides asked to enactment successful a fixed fight!)

We’ll person to hold until adjacent week’s occurrence to larn the ramifications of not lone Dunk’s assaulting Aerion but besides of Egg’s abrupt reunion with the household he’d tally distant from (his eldest member Prince Daeron remains MIA for now).

The large uncover of Egg’s existent individuality – which wasn’t shocking to readers of George R.R. Martin’s Tales of Dunk and Egg novellas – shattered the harmony of what had been up until that constituent a saccharine and elemental episode. Egg is disquieted astir Dunk’s chances of surviving the tourney, truthful helium singlehandedly trains Dunk’s horse, and aboriginal hilariously turns a opus astir a pistillate who pleasured men’s bums into a pep speech astir hope.

These charming vignettes of Dunk and Egg conscionable talking, helping oregon teasing each other, eating sandwiches – punctuated by Dan Romer’s melodic people – marque them underdogs you emotion rooting for, and adds them to the ranks of Game of Thrones’ astir compelling pairings (e.g., Arya and the Hound, Tyrion and Bronn, Brienne and Jaime, etc.).