A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Episode 4 Review

This reappraisal contains afloat spoilers for this week’s occurrence of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

“Are determination nary existent knights among you?!,” Dunk bellows astatine the assembled nobles precocious successful this week’s episode, titled “Seven”. With the last-minute accomplishment of Prince Baelor Targaryen, who volition combat connected Dunk’s broadside against his ain kin, Dunk would look to person his answer. And, boy, does helium definite request the help.

“Seven” is the gloomiest, virtually and figuratively, occurrence truthful far, with the colorful palette of the erstwhile episodes replaced by a muddy, grim aesthetic. And with the objection of 1 little speech betwixt Dunk and Raymun Fossoway, there’s nary of the playful banter oregon wit that’s been a item of the erstwhile episodes.

That’s due to the fact that “Seven” is what would beryllium considered Plot Point 2 successful a movie script, the portion of the communicative adjacent to the extremity wherever the leader is astatine his lowest constituent and with seemingly nary mode retired of the jam he’s in. (This is the second-to-last occurrence of the season.)

Dunk indispensable face his destiny aft coming to Tanselle’s rescue successful Episode 3 and beating up Aerion. The tenable Baelor understands wherefore Dunk did what helium did, but helium inactive assaulted a Targaryen prince truthful helium indispensable look immoderate punishment (Baelor has already prevented Dunk from simply being executed).

Baelor reads Dunk his rights, if you will, and the second faces Aerion, Maekar, and their lords to request a proceedings by combat. But, of course, Aerion finds a mode to weasel astir it by calling for a proceedings of seven, an past customized wherever each broadside enlists 7 knights to combat each different and the gods volition determine who wins. (Even Maekar thinks his lad is conscionable trying to wuss retired of warring Dunk one-on-one by employing this tactic.)

"Bertie Carvel instills successful Baelor ... a compassion and grant missing from galore different Targaryens.“

Unfortunately, Dunk doesn’t cognize capable knights fto unsocial six bully ones consenting to assistance him. Eventually, acknowledgment to Egg, helium assembles six knights – we should’ve known it was excessively bully to beryllium existent that Ser Steffon Fossoway would support his word! – and it’s not until Baelor’s accomplishment that a proceedings of 7 tin commence. Bertie Carvel instills successful Baelor a benignant but steadfast authorization and a compassion and grant missing from galore different Targaryens.

Another large item of “Seven” is seeing Egg successful his afloat Prince Aegon regalia. The opening country wherever Egg apologizes to Dunk for deceiving him is moving, particularly erstwhile Egg tears up arsenic Dunk scolds him. He was conscionable a kid who wanted to spell to the tourney truthful severely that helium hatched a half-assed strategy to beryllium anyone’s squire aft his drunken member Daeron decided to beryllium it out.

Speaking of Daeron, the 1 acquisition helium does look to person beyond his capableness for intoxicant depletion is prophetic dreams. He’s dreamt of Ser Duncan the Tall with a slain dragon, which adds an further furniture of morbid curiosity to the luck teller’s grim prophecy astir Egg’s aboriginal successful Episode 3.

Other observations:

• Egg’s horrifying communicative astir Aerion threatening to castrate him truthful past he’d person a sister helium could marry. Those freakin’ Targaryens, man.
• Dunk’s imaginativeness of Ser Arlan shrugging was hilarious.
• Tanselle – who did a good occupation repainting the sigil connected Dunk’s shield – has fled, truthful determination goes Dunk’s 1 romanticist hope.
• Animal person Dunk petting the rodent successful his compartment model and aboriginal talking to his horses.
• Aerion demeaning a nobleman by making him ascent nether the array to fetch his walnut.
• It was bully to spot armorer Steely Pate person different bully country with Dunk.
• Ser Lyonel knighting Raymun Fossoway. Congrats connected your promotion, Raymun!
• That large jerk who humiliated Dunk earlier the nobles by farting.
• Daeron knows he’s a coward who volition extremity up successful a hellhole without vino for lying to Maekar that Dunk kidnapped Egg.
• The Game of Thrones taxable kicking successful astatine the precise end. Let’s gooooo!