Over the years, while writing essays and articles about Game of Thrones, I’ve enjoyed the challenge of writing up spirited defenses of characters who have done some questionable things.
Everyone deserves their day in court.
(more…)Posts Tagged ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’
In Defense of Aerion Targaryen
Posted: April 1, 2026 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Opinion, TVTags: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Aerion Targaryen, Game of Thrones
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In Defense of Ser Steffon Fossaway
Posted: April 1, 2026 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Opinion, TVTags: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Game of Thrones, Ser Raymun Fossaway, Ser Steffon Fossaway
This post will be talking about a certain character’s decisions in the recent HBO show A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms – in particular talking about Ser Steffon Fossaway, a knight from the Reach and the older cousin to fan-favorite Raymun Fossaway.
If you have not seen the show and don’t want to be spoiled, stop reading now please.
(more…)Kingsguard Identification: Here’s the Thing (Hair’s the Thing)
Posted: March 25, 2026 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Opinion, TVTags: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Game of Thrones, Kingsguards, Trial of Seven
Last week, as part of my Westeros Wednesday series (filling the time between now and the House of the Dragon season three premiere) I had a long blog post (sorry for the ridiculous word count) talking in-depth about the big Judicial Jousting the happened in the penultimate episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
In that post, I took pains to try and track (mostly) the fourteen combatants in that trial. Part of that account included tracking the three Kingsguard involved, who are largely indistinguishable in their identical white armor and feature-covering helms.
(more…)Some Misty Morning Exercise in Ashford
Posted: March 18, 2026 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Opinion, TVTags: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Game of Thrones, Ser Duncan the Tall, Trial of Seven
One of the major events of HBO’s A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms‘ first season was a dramatic Trial by Combat.
Hold on a moment, I should really have put out some spoiler warnings before I started getting into details.
You should watch this terrific HBO show before reading this blog post. Go watch right now, we’ll all wait. It’s roughly a three-hour time commitment – a very short season of television.
Okay, now that they’re gone, lets talk about the Trial of Seven, and maybe another related (sort of related) melee from George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire.
(more…)A Knight of the Nine Kingdoms
Posted: March 4, 2026 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Opinion, TVTags: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Aegon Targaryen, Bran Stark, Game of Thrones, Ser Duncan the Tall
HBO has recently finished up a season of its latest A Song of Ice and Fire offering, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
The six-episode season largely covered the events told in The Hedge Knight, the first novella from George RR Martin detailing the adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall and his diminutive and bald squire Egg. There are three written novellas of Dunk and Egg stories, currently collected in a single volume called A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. I recommend it as reading material for anyone who would like to enjoy some stories that are set in Westeros but that aren’t quite as grim (for various levels of grim) as the narrative that kicks off in A Game of Thrones.
I used to blog heavily about Game of Thrones and slightly less-heavily for House of the Dragon. I won’t make any promises on insightful content, but I do want to write some essays over the next few months about A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, and a reasonable place to start is with the end of the final episode. (Look, I do what I want to do. Anyone can start writing about the beginning of things…)
(more…)The Dad-Focused Breakdown for the Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Trailer
Posted: October 11, 2025 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, TVTags: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon, Ser Duncan the Tall, The Hedge Knight
Thursday, October 10th 2025, HBO released the trailer for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, an adaptation of The Hedge Knight, the first of three (so far) novellas about a lowborn hedge knight named Ser Duncan (the Tall) and his scrawny bald squire, Egg.
George RR Martin, the author of the (unfinished) A Song of Ice and Fire series, wrote these novellas roughly sometime after the third ASOIAF book (I have not researched this) – as part of the background for his main series. The Dunk and Egg novellas take place close to a century before the events shown on HBO’s Game of Thrones series, and roughly 70 years after the events in the still-ongoing House of the Dragon show, detailing the Dance of the Dragons or the Targaryen Civil War. Alright, that’s enough detail. Why am I posting this shot-by-shot breakdown of the trailer?
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I Can't Possibly Be Wrong All the Time 