A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms showrunner Ira Parker has been speaking about the Season 1 finale, and how a scene that isn’t in the novellas will have repracussions in Season 2. Spoilers ahead…
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Episode 6 dealt with the fallout from the Trial of Seven, with guilt and grief affecting all the major players.
There’s a huge twist midway through the action that changes everything, while Dunk and Egg reunite at the end of proceedings, with plans to visit Dorne.
But the instalment ends with a scene that isn’t in George R.R. Martin’s source material, and is setup for story that will payoff in sequel series The Sworn Sword.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Season 1 thread will be pulled in Season 2
The scene in question concerns Maekar realising that Egg has run off, again, to embark on a new adventure with Dunk.
According to showrunner Ira Parker, that moment will have consequences in Season 2, which is an adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s second ‘Dunk & Egg’ novella.
“I would say we are attempting to be as compartmentalized as possible,” Parker tells Entertainment Weekly. “That’s the nature of the novellas. It’s not that there are uncertain strings that are pulled all the way through, but every season Dunk and Egg are in a new place, we set up a story, we tell you the story, and we close out the story.
“So this is a little bit of a thread, but I don’t want to start getting into two big ripple effects that change the nature of the story we’re allowed to tell in [Season] 2 that make it too big. It will be addressed, but hopefully it will not detract from anyone’s enjoyment of The Sworn Sword.”
Expect to see Aerion and Maekar in The Sworn Sword
In a separate interview with Variety, Parker states that we’re likely to see Maekar in Season 2, as well as Season 1 villain Prince Aerion.
“The one thing about this show – the nobles, the kings and queens are all terribly interesting,” says Parker. “So many times you want to go and write for them, but the truth is that’s not what this show is. There are a lot of shows, within this world and other worlds, that definitely cover that part. And we’re not that.
“We are bottom-up. We are in Dunk’s POV. Even minor lords and ladies, we don’t allow ourselves to go behind the scenes in their POVs. For better or for worse, that is the storytelling lens that we have set up for this show.
“Whether or not somebody will come in and out of Dunk’s world again, I would say probably. Westeros is a – yeah. Yes. That’s all I’ll say. Yes.”
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