I'd protect Dunk and Egg with my LIFE (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms review) 

AGREED

Or they're thick as a castle wall

@@Seb1066_ Dang it! That’s good.

Thick as a castle wall 🏰

I’m not reading a spin off until the Main series is continued how about that??? Dunk and Eggs lives simply do no matter

Ayyy, love your channel man! Excited for the Greyjoy video

Hey I recognise this guy! He's a good kid.

Ayyyeeeee quinnn love your vids man🎉 keep doing what you do!

The novellas definetly help, considering the refences made to Dunk, Egg, Bloodraven and the Blackfyre Rebellions in Feast and Dance.

Reading Tales before you read Dance is also a great idea too. You really get to see the consistencies between Egg and Young Griff.

Oh absolutely! He is trying to be as honorable as possible and acting on it. I love the juxtaposition of him having not been actually knighted. It’s in his heart 🥹

The two truest and most “ideal” knights in the ASOIAF aren’t actually knights. Dunk never actually being knighted, and Brienne being a woman. And they’re both so strongly thematically (and genetically??) linked. Clever work by GRRM.

@@Bookborn that’s honestly one of my favorite details in the text.

He could beat Ser Duncan the Tall, but he couldn’t beat Dunc from Fleabottom

Great-Grandmother.

@@gokbay3057 Tytos is Tywin's father, so she's the grandmother. But she is great grandmother to Tyrion, Jamie and Cersei (unless some of Aerys's bastards theories are right, which I think they are for the twins)

@@hjalmarbasile Right, I remember you writing "Jaime's Grandmother" Not Tywin's. Because yes, she is Tywin's grandmother and Jaime's (and Cersei and Tyrion's) Great Grandmother. I personally really dislike the Lannister's are secret Targaryens theories but it is somewhat more tolerable with the twins when compared to Tyrion.

And John the Fiddler is gay and has the hots for Dunk. Someone was a size queen.

​@@johnreynolds2512lmao. Was that not explicit after Dunk gets attacked by John's close friend who pretty much says and thinks that exactly?

I also loev the Mystery Knight, more because of its connection to THE LORE.

I’m personally loving the idea that I’d get into the series so late just to have winds drop like can you imagine ☠️☠️

Luckiest person ever haha ​@@Bookborn

Tbh if it ever get released, you probably will have waited less than 90% of the fanbase@@Bookborn

That would be so funny and awesome ​@@Bookborn

Haha it was just for this video BUT when I redo my bookshelves I plan to give it a good, central spot!

I'm glad someone else noticed.

Walder Frey is actually in this book as a kid also.

I like that Walder Frey is unlikeable even as a baby -100% antagonist from the get go.

I struggle with audiobooks a lot but maybe I'll get it from my library and give it a lil listen...

@@BookbornI was about to comment the same thing in regards to the audiobooks. That was actually my first experience with these stories, and Harry Lloyd does such an incredible job to where I have 0 regrets.

​@@Bookbornwhy do you struggle with audiobooks?

Oh man thanks for the tip, that sounds incredible!

For a few reasons! One, and most importantly, whenever I listen to things, my brain tends to daydream a lot lol. Like it's not easy for me to focus while I listen in the same way it is when I read. Additionally, I don't usually like how an audiobook narrator decides how things should be read *for* me: I usually like having my own interpretations in my head. Also, I'm sort of a silence person - I don't really love multi-tasking, so I don't often have opportunities to enjoy audiobooks.@@DarkSitari

I have a feeling I'll be seeing a mention of Sir Duncan the Tall 🥲

You and me out here spreading the good word of Sansa Stark 👯‍♀

When I first got into the series I was completely neutral towards her 15 years later she's one of the few I still care about and hope has humanity by the end of the story lol

Everyone is so harsh on Sansa! She's one of the most real characters in the book! Glad to see others agree!

Well put. This is why I'm still fucked off about what they did with Stannis in the show.

Oh...now I've gotta go look up those publication dates...

Robb is older than Jon

@@testcase6997 that is what Ned says to help cover his story on who Jon really is but baby Jon is bigger than Robb so it is questionable who is older and it is a fear Cat has

@@jewsco When does he say that? I scoured the books for that info and I missed it :( ALl I found is that Jon was developing faster than Robb and also that Jon was already in WInterfell when Catelyn came back

As someone who deals with inheritance and probate matters for a living, I can say Cat was 100% right to have concerns about Jon and Jon’s kids posing a threat to her kids. Did she handle it well by taking those scared and angry feelings out on Jon ? Nope. Was she being angry and fearful for no reason? Also, 100 % Nope.

Yeah, this has been on my radar for a long time! But I don't plan on reading it until after I finish the main series!

It's a good book. But it reads like reading a history story. It's not like the other books. Especially Dunk And Egg.

Wow two absolute legends what a genealogy line

Rohanne Webber is Jaime's great-grandmother, too

@@Bookborn Daeron Targaryen's first words to Dunk at the inn was: "I dreamt of you"....

why would you spoil that? this was mentioned in AFFC, the book she hasnt read yet

@@mum-your What are you talking about? This was revealed by George in an interview, not in the books.

lmao and my only complaint with the second one was because of the romance, why am I like this, such a hater 🤣

@@Bookborn Wow, you are a hater! Lol, I’m kidding, I’m honestly just a big sucker for romance. I wanted Dunk to be with Tanselle after the first book and then immediately wanted him with Rohanne after the second. 😂

There is so SO many hints and implications at this. I can’t understand why people deny this, and it reinforces Martin’s message

well, the hints weren't exactly subtle.

Right now I usually classify Stannis as a little bit of a baby ☠️ I don't dislike him but I feel that he "can't read a room" lmaooo. I know a lot of people love him so hopefully he'll grow on me (although I'll admit, that when he shows up at the end and he's "the only king who responded" my estimation of him went much higher! Although I mostly give credit to Davos, my sweet and lovely onion knight)

⁠@@BookbornI personally didn’t find Stannis very likeable during Clash, but he really grew on me in Storm, especially when he makes Davos hand Davos is forever my champion though throughout all books 🔥

I'm gonna at least try to watch it since this seems so much more mild than the main series...hoping it doesn't end up being too graphic 🤞

@@Bookborn last time i`ve watched the main series (first 4 seasons lol) was a couple of years ago so maybe im misremembering but i dont recall the show being THAT graphic. Not more than the books anyway

As long as Dumb and Dumber aren't involved, I'm in!

Aren't there three alive in the main series? Maester Aemon, Bloodraven and Walder Frey?

Most people don't know who is related to Dunk in the main series so I highly disagree with the books "beating you over the head with it". I would hazard a guess 95% of people who read AFFC don't finish the book thinking someone is related to Dunk. The fandom overanalyzes everything so of course the super fans would catch it

@@readbykyle3082 I respectfully disagree. If you've read the first Dunk and Egg Novella, you know what his coat of arms is, how big and awkward he feels, his bone-deep chivalry and adeptness at arms. His self-doubt and naivety. When his relative gets their own POV in Feast you get a lot of the same behaviors, thoughts, etc. It's almost a recycling of Dunk's character. And then to really drive the point home, they have their shield painted with Dunk's coat of arms. I'll concede it's more obvious to super fans, but I highly doubt 95% of the people who have read Dunk and Egg, and Feast will walk away not wondering about a connection between those two characters. Again, not picking a fight, just saying that I would be surprised if that were the case.

@@jagvillani338 Bah! I forgot about Frey. I mean technically the person(s) hanging out with Bloodraven and the old woman on High Hill probably too. This is a slippery slope, I regret mentioning it 😅

This is SO FUNNY because I ALMOST WENT BACK AND CHECKED THAT IN ASOS. I was like...wait, Jaime lists all the lord commanders, I wonder if he's in it? CANT BELIEVE IT I should've followed my instinct.

Egg doesn't seem like a villain to me, that's who you meant. He was likely right about needing dragons for The Others. Too bad the maesters likely caused Summerhall.

@@lanestapp2 Maybe. Or maybe he was going to sacrifice baby Rhaegar... It seems a bit dubious that he was into dragons for a reason that has never appeared on page & only a spin-off TV show, when his history gives him plenty of mundane reasons to want them.

@@Gunleaver You mean the main overlying magic villain? I don't think the others will be completely defeated with valyrian steel. With egg likely sending is brother and blood raven to the wall years prior, it seems like he was focused on The Others.

@@lanestapp2 As with the Aegon Prophecy, the problem I see with Egg anticipating the Others is that he just didn't do enough. Aegon I didn't both doing anything to prepare the realm, or reinforce the defenses. He was content to let each realm maintain its own laws and customs and left the task of integration to future generations and no hint of a plan. He made the Starks Wardens, yes, but undercut it by making three other Wardens, indicating the threats from beyond the Wall were no more concern to him than Dorne or the Free cities, or the Ironborn. Why did he keep the capital and his royal seat on Blackwater Bay, close to his family home of Dragonstone, instead of projecting his power by selecting a location for his court closer to the action he brought his family to Westeros to fight? Why not set up in Harrenhal, use the resources that would go to building the Red Keep to restore it, and create a centralize capital on the God's Eye, and claiming the eastern Riverlands (if not all of them) for a royal domain, to ensure Targaryen military dominance? Because he was more interested in keeping the nobles happy with his reign, which suggests he had no further goal than the rule of Westeros, and that ruling Westeros was not any sort of means to an end. As for Aegon V, why was he creating a network of southern alliances, instead of shoring up support in the North? Why was he pushing through a series of reforms that did nothing to prepare the realm for a long-term invasion, while undercutting the power of the nobility, ie the military/leadership caste, who would be crucial to fighting any such threat. Every single version of Aemon's taking the black has it for strictly political motivations, to remove himself from the politics of succession. Why does he talk to Jon about the pain of having to stand aside no matter what happens to his family, instead of pointing out that the real threat and foe are here, at the Wall? FFS, the dead rangers coming back to life should have been the culmination of Aemon's career at the Wall, the whole reason for his self-imposed exile come to pass, there should have been a reaction of SOME kind from him. When Stannis & Melisande show up at the Wall talking about those same prophecies, why didn't he speak up and point out that he had come to the Wall for that same purpose? Why didn't he bring ANY of this up with Sam on his fatal journey south, when he discussed his reason for coming to the Wall, and Bloodraven's presence among his recruiting class? Not even in his desperate last words about dragons and dreams and what they thought the prophecies meant, does he so much as say "these prophecies are why I came to the Wall, and why Egg tried to hatch dragons". As with Aegon I, Aegon V's only apparent agenda seems to have been the consolidation of his own power and authority over the nobility of Westeros, with nothing in mind for any mystical destiny or prophesied threat.

Yes. I also like the Hedge Knight because it says standing up for what is right, is Right, but doing right comes with risks and costs. Too often the hero risks much but wins every prize- the girl, the castle, the fame- at little to no cost. If GRRM every sets up a story like that you can bet either the story’s narrator is unreliable or a dragon is going to eat them all in a few moments…

Egg ended up being 'Aegon the Unlikely' because he was the 4th son of a 4th son making him pretty far down the line of succession.

@@tanimal3964 Dude. I know. I was trying not to spoil.

Look every Targaryen practically has the same name it's almost as bad as the Silmarillion.

​@@Bookbornyou have no idea how true this is. Just wait until you're halfway through Fire and Blood 😂

​@@BookbornCan't wait for you to read Fire and Blood then 😂

The last 3 stories?? My sweet summer child. He plans 12 😂😂

Haha the fans told me to do it this way!! Blame them 🤣

@@Bookborn I wish I knew why genuinely, going back to that specific point in time after finishing the war of kings then picking back up after the war of kings makes no sense to me (not in a mean way)

It will probably end with summerhall, since that’s were Egg (and I think Dunk) died.

@@billjoe8734 Of course it will, but it's the details of Summerhall I find interesting. Personally, I have a hypothesis of the details of what happened at Summerhall and if half of them are right I want to read it.

@@89Dienekes what’s your hypothesis?

@@billjoe8734 Egg (or some other Targ) has a dream of Dany awakening the dragon eggs in a massive magic fire. Misunderstands it and decides to light Princess Rhaella on fire to raise the eggs, convinced she will be fine as Dany was. Dunk, who has been being tested on what is truly honorable for basically the entire series now has one final decision to make. His king and dearest friend, or an innocent girl. He is Dunk, so of course he saves the girl. In so doing ruining the ritual and starting the tragedy at Summerhall getting everyone killed. And of course, once he rescues Rhaella he runs back in, in one final desperate ridiculous chance to save Egg. And fails. The tragedy of the Targaryens, and the problems of kingship and knighthood itself played out.

@@89Dienekes 😎