re: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - S1 Thread (no book spoilers, please)

Disappointed only because I had unreal expectations. I enjoyed the rawness of it. I texted my friend last night and said it felt like I was in the fight, they did a great job of that. I enjoyed the flashback until we had Dunk following Arlan around for 5 minutes. We had young Dunk literally following around a guy we watched get hammered dancing around a fire for almost as long as we had a battle. I could have cut some of that out and see a little more fighting from others.

I usually watch the episodes 2-3 times to see what I miss, definitely want to see the fight scene again because Baelor is fighting 2 people and I wonder if we see him get hit.

I don’t think that was close to the best episode though. We had Egg just yell “Get Up” 50 times, then Dunk get pierced with a lance 8 inches into his stomach, stabbed 4 times with a knife, stabbed twice with a sword, clubbed twice in the head with a mace…I mean he had literally no shot to be alive. Could have done a little less Dunk getting his arse kicked. Then he dies and comes back to life stronger? Still my favorite show on tv at the moment, but the trial of 7 was a little lackluster

Also, if no one was going to help Aerion why the hell did he ask for trial of 7? It became just a 1v1 anyway which Aerion clearly wanted to avoid. Dunk gets hit in the head and face repeatedly, takes his helmet off and no one kills him? Dunk’s side had 2 guys immediately die so there were plenty of free knights to help Aerion

Raymun was giving his cousin the business

I also expected more of a battle, but I think the way did it actually makes sense. The battle is so disorienting from Dunk's perspective, I don't know that I could take ~5-10 minutes of that.

I do think the flashback was a little long, but it resulted in multiple big payoffs.

Enjoyed, the episode. Glad we finally got some real fighting. I don't mind the flashback, just wish it hadn't taken tight away from the fighting. All the flashback stuff could have been in the episode leading up to the battle.

Also, even though the episodes are list as like 40 min, there's about 10 minutes of other stuff at the end.so, it's more like 30 minutes.

i wish we would have seen more of the crazy one eyed guy and Lionel whip arse. They are still alive, no?

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seems like we would have gotten a better shot of the killing blow as well. I guess it's in there but I missed it.

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It happens right after Dunk finishes smashing Aerion with the shield. Aerion says "I yield," Dunk stands up and you see a couple of cutaways to other knights fighting. It's the last one of those cutaways, Maekar with a mace right into the back of Baelor's head.

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My biggest complaint was why did he take his helmet off?

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lack of experience and he couldn't see out of it. That helmet looked far too small and flimsy for his giant head.

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One of the reason helmets with visors became common, is because most knights after the initial charge would want to lift up their visor. It allowed them more vision, and allowed them to breath easier which is underrated but when you are fighting for your life you use a lot of oxygen so if your breathing is restricted you will wear out faster. Dunk didn’t have a helmet with a visor but at the time he had no choice his vision was too obstructed.