'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' showrunner on the Season 1 finale, and what's next for Dunk and Egg

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This story contains spoilers for Episode 6 of “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.” Ira Parker intended the very last scene of “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” Episode 6 (titled “The Morrow”), to be just “something that was a little funny.”Sunday’s season finale of the HBO fantasy series ends with everyone, including the royal Targaryen entourage, departing Ashford after the conclusion of the trial and tournament.Just before the credits roll, Prince Maekar, who notices his young son Aegon is once again missing, frantically shouts, “Where the f— is he?”“To be honest, the very, very, very end was almost just meant as a joke,” the showrunner says during a recent video call.

“But I think people — both in my writing camp and in the HBO camp and probably in the world — took that quite literally.So I’ve maybe had to deal with it a little bit more in Season 2 than I was planning to.”Starring Peter Claffey as Ser Duncan the Tall and Dexter Sol Ansell as Prince Aegon Targaryen, “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” is an adaptation of George R.R.

Martin novellas set in the same world as his “A Song of Ice and Fire” series.These “Tales of Dunk and Egg” stories take place around 100 years before the events depicted in “Game of Thrones.”The moment in question could be a big deal for some fans of Martin’s novellas.

The scene is not included in “The Hedge Knight,” the book upon which the first season of “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” is based.Whether Egg had Maekar’s permission to join Dunk’s travels as his squire is left more open ended in the novella itself.The latest spinoff of “Game of Thrones” is set 100 years before the events of the original series, centering around a hedge knight named Dunk, played by Peter Claffey, and his squire.While the young prince said he had his father’s blessing, “it’s not confirmed canon...