A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 2: EP on Maekar resolution
We find ourselves very-much fortunate over the fact that A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 2 is coming to HBO next year. This is a turnaround time you do not often get with shows of this magnitude, and the cast and crew have been hard at work on it for some time.
In the midst of all of that, of course there are big story questions — with the largest being how to follow up on the reveal that Maekar has no idea where Egg is, despite the young squire telling Dunk otherwise. It is a moment that was not included in the George R.R. Martin source material, so is it going to produce a ripple effect?
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Well, of course there are a multitude of different things we can say on this subject, but why not go ahead and turn it over to Ira Parker? Speaking in an Emmy-campaign interview with AwardsWatch, the showrunner notes that he and the rest of the team have come up with a plan while still honoring the original material:
I really thought I was just doing something funny at the end of the season, and then people started bringing it to my attention in season two that, “Oh no, this is a big major cliffhanger that you have to address.” And I’m just like, “No, I don’t want to do that. I just want to go and do book two now.” I hope we have found a fun compromise. Look, I want this show to be fun. I want people to enjoy spending their half hour with us in Westeros every week. My goal is to stay completely on [the original] story as much as possible, and I’m trying to swing this background into it because look, if you read book one, when Maekar comes to Dunk’s camp and Dunk says the same things that he says at our show to him, “Your sons are basically s—heads because they were raising the castle, like you should come on the road with me.
Maekar doesn’t say yes in the books. He just sort of does his grimacy Maekar thing, and then he f—s off and then the next morning, Egg shows up to this camp, no guard, no anyone else around, no escort, just a prince just showing up in this camp and Dunk says, “Okay, well I guess I convinced your father,” and takes it with him. We never see Maekar say yes, and yeah, there’s other things that the novella probably suggests that that was maybe the case, but confirmation is not 100% there. So it felt reasonable to make this and now we’re just trying to keep it. We don’t want it to in any way change the story that we’re telling in book two. So I think hopefully we’ve done a really nice job running it into the Sworn Sword.
Of course, all of this can be a really difficult line to tow, but here is where we will issue a reminder that Seven Kingdoms vastly exceeded expectations throughout the first season. Why not think they could do it all over again now, even with some shifts regarding a character or two?
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This article was written by Jessica BunBun.