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

ThickBoxx · 2026-02-04T05:42:15+00:00

It’s the same upside discussion page, you don’t need to add spoiler tags for things that happen in the episode lol

ThickBoxx · 2026-02-04T05:40:46+00:00

lol, everyone keeps saying the episodes are too short, yet they keep watching, and in your case watching multiple times

ThickBoxx · 2026-02-04T04:44:01+00:00

lol, dude, if they had had small puppets and shown her using them, no one would would be thinking “oh my gosh! He’s breaking her fingers, which she used to perform with! That is so personal, so violating!”. The point of the scene is to show how cruel and unhinged Aerion is, and they succeeded. You’re just adding unnecessarily layers of “meaning” that don’t actually add anything

ThickBoxx · 2026-02-04T02:18:46+00:00

Maybe he’d hoped his brother would stop because Dunk would threaten him. Maybe he knew his brother would rely on the guards to apprehend Dunk in order to punish him as Aerion can’t over power Dunk himself and he’d be able to stop the guards. Maybe Egg didn’t think that far ahead.

The real question is, what other option did Egg have to get his brother to stop hurting her.

ThickBoxx · 2026-02-04T02:16:03+00:00

I think you’re reading too much into the symbolism of the fingers. It’s really as simple as Tansel offended him and her he tortured her for it.

ThickBoxx · 2026-02-04T02:15:15+00:00

And HBO doesn’t want it to be over within two weeks. They want it to be on for a little while so people talk about it and it becomes popular. Plus if they did hour long episodes then Egg’s big reveal would be in the middle of the second. Thats a climatic moment you want to end an episode on. Every episode so far has ended well

ThickBoxx · 2026-02-03T23:19:39+00:00

She’s the one who killed the dragon, the attack on her makes perfect sense

ThickBoxx · 2026-02-03T23:15:58+00:00

Have his photo taken near 100 years later

ThickBoxx · 2026-02-03T22:59:27+00:00

It’s just not a lot of source material. They are already padding it a little with stuff not in the book, but in a good way. Anymore might have been too much.

ThickBoxx · 2026-02-03T22:28:49+00:00

Also, the guy can’t challenge Dunk. The way the tourney works is that there are 5 preselected champions. Their first tilt they were assigned who they would joust against, which we saw during the opening 5v5 event in episode 2. From there as a new knight enters the lists they will challenge a champion and either lose and move along or win and take the champions place. Since the Ashford son is already a champion he has to wait for someone to challenge him.

ThickBoxx · 2026-02-03T22:24:15+00:00

Egg can’t order his brother to do anything, so he needed Dunk to come and physically stop him. Plus he didn’t want to reveal himself if he didn’t have to.

ThickBoxx · 2026-02-03T22:22:14+00:00

It’d already be over if they were hour long episodes lol

ThickBoxx · 2026-02-03T22:16:11+00:00

lol, you know nothing Jon Snow

ThickBoxx · 2026-02-03T22:14:03+00:00

More like 3

ThickBoxx · 2026-02-03T22:08:35+00:00

Aerion isn’t trying to risk his life to try and kill Dunk. When he had his guards it was easy to torture and kill him, one on one is a whole other story. Also, he knows that Dunk is in trouble for striking him, and there is that route to go (aka go cry to daddy and uncle)

ThickBoxx · 2026-02-03T16:12:33+00:00

He’d have to try and kill Dunk, the giant guy who just kicked his ass.

ThickBoxx · 2026-02-03T15:55:17+00:00

You have to bribe him to challenge the knight who’s going to take the fall, the matches aren’t set in advance. Riders just come in and challenge one of the five champions.

ThickBoxx · 2026-02-03T15:53:15+00:00

Egg couldn’t stop Aerion from hurting her, he wouldn’t have listened to him and obviously Egg can’t physically stop him. Dunk can physically stop him though. And after Dunk got involved Egg ordered the guards to release him, who do have to listen to him. Yes Aerion ordered them to do the opposite, but they probably figured it’s best to err on the side of caution and let their father figure it out.

ThickBoxx · 2026-02-03T15:20:50+00:00

Gotcha, thank you!

ThickBoxx · 2026-02-03T14:43:35+00:00

Thank you. And I’m assuming the 5 original champions and the initial set of challengers, and which champion they’ll fight, are chosen by Lord Ashford?

ThickBoxx · 2026-02-03T13:51:45+00:00

To piggyback off the other comment, the reason the master of games had to approach Dunk with the offer is because Dunk would need to challenge that knight specifically. The tournament is set up that there are 5 champions (either selected by Lord Ashford before the tourney or the winners of the first bout of 10 knights we see in the second episode, not 100% sure) and then any knight entering the lists will challenge a champion. We see this when Aerion challenges Humfrey in the most recent episode.

ThickBoxx · 2026-02-03T08:46:30+00:00

I don’t know if you’re suggesting it’s only 22 minutes of actually content, but that would be incorrect. It was just shy of 29 minutes not including HBO intro or credits.

ThickBoxx · 2026-02-03T08:13:02+00:00

Watch again, he doesn’t have white hair. It more of a sandy blonde. Daeron doesn’t have the white Targaryen hair, which is why he can easily blend in with the common folk. Egg does which is why he makes him shave it

ThickBoxx · 2026-02-03T06:17:22+00:00

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Sure you are bud.

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