Does It Matter If Dunk Was Actually Knighted on ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’?

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms kicked off its run with a makeshift funeral: Dunk (Peter Claffey) buries Ser Arlan of Pennytree (Danny Webb), his longtime grasp, on a muddy hillside. It’s a turning level for the previous squire, who decides to take Ser Arlan’s sword and head to the close by event at Ashford to attempt his luck. In spite of everything, he’s an actual knight now. Or… is he?

It’s unclear if Ser Arlan truly obtained round to knighting his protégé earlier than he handed. However Dunk’s nervousness when he’s teased by the steward at Ashford—who jokingly (however convincingly) warns him of the hideous torture that awaits any man who pretends to be a knight—suggests possibly the ceremony didn’t fairly come to move.

Later in episode one, “The Hedge Knight,” Dunk blurts out that the sword he carries is rightfully his, an announcement so odd even self-involved Ser Steffon Fossoway takes word of it.

However, within the grand scheme of issues, does it actually matter if Ser Arlan knighted Dunk—or are the life classes and innate heroism that “Ser Duncan the Tall” carries inside him extra essential? A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms showrunner, Ira Parker, makes a strong level for the latter.

Talking on the official Sport of Thrones podcast (through Winter Is Coming), Parker stated it’s extra essential to think about what makes a superb knight, slightly than whether or not or not an official ceremony occurred.

“It’s not prefer it’s a simple factor to do. It’s not like anybody can simply get up and say, ‘I’m a knight; right here we go.’ You want issues. You want horses, you want armor, you want to have the ability to battle … These guys are skilled fighters,” Parker identified.

He continued. “I feel that’s in the end, hopefully, what it comes right down to, whether or not or not you may have the title and the arms and the armor… you don’t even need to be a superb particular person; you don’t even need to be an ethical particular person. However in case you attempt to assist out within the rapid neighborhood, you don’t need to go off and alter your entire course of historical past within the realm. You simply have to assist the man subsequent to you that’s struggling for the time being. And I feel Dunk… as we’ll see, kind of takes that as his guiding mild, and you already know, possibly will get him in slightly little bit of bother.”

You possibly can try the complete interview right here; it begins round 24 minutes in:

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