This Game Of Thrones Season 8 Scene Is Even Better After A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms

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Rewatching "Game of Thrones" successful 2026 is an ... absorbing experience. We each cognize really arguable nan show's eighth and last play proved to be. It's 1 of those TV show endings that fans still reason about to this day. But arsenic bad arsenic play 8 whitethorn be, it still coiled up giving america immoderate spectacular moments. And without a doubt, nan champion of these was Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) making Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie) nan first female knight successful nan Seven Kingdoms.

This peculiar segment takes spot nan nighttime earlier nan large conflict betwixt nan surviving and nan Army of nan Dead. Everyone is either making bid pinch their apt deaths, saying goodbye to loved ones, aliases crossing items disconnected their bucket lists conscionable successful case. When Tormund Giantsbane (Kristofer Hivju) hears that Brienne is not a knight contempt each her unthinkable accomplishments, he gets furious. Then, Jaime offers to knight her.

It's a rubbing infinitesimal that some challenges nan thought of what being a existent knight intends successful Westeros while besides recognizing that Brienne has ever embodied nan values of a knight, titles aliases not. The truth that Jaime, 1 of nan astir bad men successful nan show earlier being (briefly) redeemed by spending clip pinch Brienne, is nan 1 who knights her makes this segment that overmuch better. Jaime, aft all, is infamous for breaking his astir important vow arsenic a knight. Now, present he is, recognizing and rewarding nan truest knight successful Westeros.

However, acknowledgment to nan show's prequel/spin-off "A Knight of nan Seven Kingdoms," this relationship has go each nan much poignant. Why? Because it's erstwhile Brienne accomplishes what Ser Duncan nan Tall (Peter Claffey) — her ancestor and nan protagonist of "Seven Kingdoms" –  apparently ne'er did and is made an charismatic knight.

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In "A Knight of nan Seven Kingdoms" play 1, we ne'er find retired for definite whether Duncan, aka Dunk, was really knighted aliases not. The show's root worldly doesn't supply a clear answer, either, truthful nan bid pokes nosy astatine this by hinting astatine either anticipation without ever afloat confirming 1 aliases nan other. Think of nan segment wherever Duncan has a imagination of his mentor, Ser Arlan (Danny Webb), shrugging his shoulders arsenic if to say "tough luck" to Dunk for not getting knighted ... unless he was.

It's rather apt that Dunk is lying astir his knighthood, but that dishonesty wouldn't tarnish his characteristic — rather nan opposite. "A Knight of nan Seven Kingdoms" is each astir interrogating what it intends to beryllium a "true knight." As we saw passim "Game of Thrones," knighthood is person to a type of societal position than thing else. It's fundamentally a measurement for nan astir powerful families successful Westeros to make themselves look amended and much important than anyone else, moreover arsenic they behave for illustration monsters. This, successful turn, makes nan thought of Dunk acting nan astir for illustration a existent and axenic knight without technically being 1 that overmuch much powerful.

Even nan play 1 finale playfully acknowledges that the title of "A Knight of nan Seven Kingdoms" is based connected a lie. There aren't 7 kingdoms, and Dunk is astir apt not a knight. What really matters is nan collectively agreed-upon communicative and nan bully it does for nan realm. That goes double for Dunk, who is nan only genuinely noble warrior connected nan show. The aforesaid point could beryllium said for Brienne, who has intelligibly inherited Dunk's spirit.

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Back successful 2016 (via Vanity Fair), Westeros architect George R. R. Martin confirmed astatine a normal that Brienne of Tarth is so Ser Duncan nan Tall's descendant. Knowing that, nan infinitesimal wherever Brienne is knighted connected "Game of Thrones" brings things full-circle for nan 2 characters.

You see, Brienne not only inherits Dunk's values and tone of knighthood, she besides finishes what he started. More specifically, she's (correctly) rewarded for her ideas and values by being made a due knight of nan Seven Kingdoms. Not that either Brienne aliases Dunk needed nan title, of course, arsenic some of them negociate to do a full batch of bully without it. Still, Brienne succeeding successful this respect is nan uncommon lawsuit of thing wholly bully happening amidst nan wide bleakness of Westeros.

Again, though Dunk whitethorn not person been knighted, that didn't extremity him from doing bonzer things successful his lifetime. In time, he moreover goes connected to go Lord Commander of nan Kingsguard for Aegon V and gets 4 full pages dedicated to his deeds successful nan White Book of nan Kingsguard. Moreover, it's imaginable (if somewhat unlikely) that Dunk mightiness person lived agelong capable to spot Brienne successful personification or, astatine nan least, cognize of her.

Recall that Peter Claffey's "A Knight of nan Seven Kingdoms" co-star Dexter Sol Ansell, aka nan Egg to his Dunk, may person accidentally spoiled what Martin has planned for Dunk successful nan agelong run. So, if we presume that Ansell's remark was correct, past it's plausible that Dunk was capable to unrecorded agelong capable to spot what Westeros was for illustration for himself erstwhile "Game of Thrones" takes place.

"A Knight of nan Seven Kingdoms" and "Game of Thrones" are streaming connected HBO Max.