It's...okay...so far. I like how the episodes aren't very long, since it's basically the one guy's story. The upcoming episode should probably be pretty good.
Anyway, all caught up Egg's reveal was something I guessed in the second episode. I mean how would a stable boy be so intelligent?I like both actors. The guy who plays Dunc is good at playing a dumb brute. It's simple, but effective.
It was pretty cool when the GoT theme started playing during one of the scenes in the newest episode.
I realize that. But nothing in this story really depends om GoT to understand. This could be an unaffiliated sword and shield story and lose nothing.
The only thing intelligence has to do with occupation is ability to learn. and at that time, in that story, occupation had more to do with what your parents did, and nothing to do with intelligence at all. Egg could have been fucking Einstein and still lived his entire life as a stable hand
I guess I meant he seemed pretty educated for a stable boy. Indicating that he had noble blood because a stable boy wouldn’t be educated.
The actor, the writer, the director very probably and deliberately presented the character in such a way that most people would naturally make that assumption allowing for 'the big reveal' to not only be accepted, but many in the audience would feel like "I knew it!!"
I don't remember much in the way of specific knowledge or processing of information that suggested that Egg had to be of noble blood. For instance, I don't think it was established that he could read at a time when literacy was rare or had more detailed knowledge than a lowborn could possibly have. The one thing he raised that showed more knowledge than Dunk was about how to talk to girls, and like you said, Dunk is supposed to be kind of dumb. I think what tips the hand to Egg being nobility is him having a self-confidence and almost impudence that would be out of place for a lowborn. Someone who relied on Dunk to be in his service to get fed would not be as uppity as Egg frequently is.
Good episode this week. I found myself inadvertently holding my breath for good stretches. I'm disappointed that next week is already the finale.
I sincerely hope that with shorter seasons and shorter episode run times that we won't have to wait until 2028 for a season 2.
Don’t quote me on this, but HBO is generally consistent with their shows and I think with House of the Dragon they skirted WGA rules because it was not filmed in Hollywood. That’s how Matt Smith was able to do the second season during the strikes. So it’s possible that this show is doing the same thing. There are rumors that another strike is coming, but I don’t know. ETA: Pluribus unfortunately suffered from the strikes.
Well, yeah. I was kind of alluding to that. I think it’s safe to say that most of the audience saw it coming. Also it’s GoT so obviously one would think that. The tell for me was that he said he was King’s Landy, not a flea bag and every time Duncan mentioned Targaryen’s he looked away.
My understanding is that for the reasons you referenced it is supposed to be a one season a year show. My concern is how much of this story within a story has GRR Martin written or am I looking forward to it going completely to shit relatively shortly (also wonder if this isn’t part of short episodes and short seasons).
Overall I am enjoying. For some reason I thought this was the last episode and so was dissatisfied. Will watch next week.
I'd be fine if GRR Martin wasn't involved. I read the first book. once. Tried to read it again. couldn't. Maybe I'll try again in a couple years. I've recently had a change of opinion regarding Tolkien's books and I'll probably give those a read. Maybe I just need to be in the right mindset to read Martin's stories as well. Either way, I like Kight of the Seven Kingdoms as is. I don't need an elaborate war of the roses theme to spark my imagination. I wish "they" would resume longer seasons with more story (shut up about fucking filler shit. Thats what is called STORY!!).
correct me if I’m wrong but the tales of “Dunc & Egg” were referenced in GOT a few times… most notably by Aemon Targaryen, the old maester at the Wall. I get it was supposed to be a secret to the characters in the story but yeah, worst kept secret. I was going to let this go by and not watch but I got bored and decided to give it a try. I’m glad I did. This is awesome! I think House of the Dragon, while being OK, kind of turned me off of GoT a bit. That and the 2+ years between seasons… I think the fact that Dunc is a low born trying to raise his status in a world full of knights and royals makes this story way more compelling… at least to me. I can’t wait for the last episode! Then I guess it’ll be 2028 to get the next season.
I'm hopeful that between the shorter episodes and the lack of need to CGI things up or to have massive battle scenes, they will be able to provide us with a S2 in a reasonable time frame.
I wish I understood the economics of TV shows a little better. We used to get 24-26 episode seasons of our favorite shows every year. Now it’s 8-10 episodes every 1.5 years if we’re lucky. There is a lot more things to watch but most of it is trash, IMHO. What’s changed? Could it all be CGI and post production cost?
Super lay person understanding but: In MY day, TV shows were set up factoring two things: commercial breaks and potential syndication. It took about 100 episodes of a program for it to get a second life in syndication generally speaking, so shows aimed for at least four-five seasons. The introduction of prestige channels like HBO and now streamers have blown up that model so that show runners don't necessarily have to achieve those goals. HBO/Netflix/etc. aren't aiming to repackage shows and aren't willing to bankroll 20+ episodes where 8-13 are enough to show if it "works" for them.
So if I’m understanding you correctly, then all of the Paramount Plus Star Trek stuff will never see a life on network TV syndication… which is where Star Trek thrives. Hmmm….
The model is different now. Why bother trying to sell syndication rights to local teevee stations (broadcast networks don't run syndicated programming) when you can charge people to watch the content on your own app?
Plus writers strikes interfered. Writers got sick of being worked to death to meet those deadlines so seasons got shorter. Now the unions and California has made it nearly impossible to live and work there and the strikes and AI are making the writers nearly obsolete. Old school writers are a dying breed or are going to prestige streaming services like Apple.
One thing that many people haven't considered is that shorter seasons have made life harder for behind-the-scenes workers. The old model of 22-26 episode seasons provided long, steady work for set-builders, cinematographers, lighting people, etc. Now, with seasons seeming to average around 10 episodes, those people have to find work more frequently than they used to.
