I don't want to be a Debbie downer here, but pattern recognition has informed me to wait for the second season.
There are plenty of shows out there that start strong to hook in the normies, and then devolve with each subsequent season.
This is not to say that this show is like that or will become like that (I have not watched it, despite all the high praise it has been receiving from the anti-woke crowd). However, we have seen this pattern before.
It really breaks my heart when you brought up The Mandalorian. I actually really liked that show, but boy oh boy did they ruin that one.
I think as Mpetey said, even if the second season goes tits up for A Knight of the Seven Kingdom, at least it sounds like the first season hit a home-run.
How many times have you re-watched the early seasons of Game of Thrones since you saw the terrible ending?
For me the number is none.
After your girlfriend bangs your dad in your bed and then nails your beloved beagle to a door, you could look back on the five wonderful years of your relationship; But you won't.
Yep, OG GoT is dead. George RR Martin and D&D made sure of that. Truthfully, the show runners got the worse end of it anyway. Their Star Wars project was canned and then who even hears about them anymore? People hate them. I doubt they ever figured that they'd run out of source material when they started the show.
Meanwhile, George continues to refuse to finish his books (probably because he can't figure out how and people hated his ending) and instead works on other projects, people eat it all up, and he continues to collect his big paydays.
Luckily Devil May Cry blew its load like four episodes on so I didn't even finish the first season. "demons are actually sympathetic creatures wahhhh diversity and tolerance!" in a show on an IP about killing demons mercilessly. Trash.
Wasn't what already known? I played the OG game from PS2 and I don't recall any demon sympathies aside from Dante himself being half demon. But the entire game is him killing demons, pretty cut and dry.
In this case, they have the benefit of having books to adapt. It's not Hollywood scriptwriters who decide the plot points. The first season was a roaring success by very closely following the source material, and I do believe that they can successfully do this for the next 2 seasons, as well.
The problem will come after that, if they make the horrible decision to do a 4th season without a novella to adapt. GoT failed once GRRM's lazy communist ass couldn't give them a book in time, so I don't expect him to be able to shit out the 10 next chapters he promised of Dunk & Egg's adventure in the next 2 years. The showrunners will need to call it quit after 3 seasons if they want to leave the audience on a high note.
I haven't read them actually. I just know that there have only been three out of a planned six or seven that have been released. George loves to bite off more than he can chew.
At this point do we? Martin has burned bridges with a lot of fans with his crying about fans bugging him about the books. "Why don't you people like my Wild Cards stuff?"
Cause it sucks George. The zeitgeist is the show ending is unpopular, how much will the books vary?
Won't happen. The show runners had to do a lot of gymnastics to not force the middle seasons to be a big mess of characters being all over the place with tons of strings to tie back up. They partly succeeded (putting aside the horrid S8) even if the quality was poorer than S1-4.
George spread his characters out even further and even added new ones on top of it. He can't finish the story because he can't figure out how to do it properly. Even worse is that his outline for the ending that was used on the show was universally hated by fans.
The thing is the show is super sincere about Dunk's goodness. The show can have all the subversion and sickness around him, but Dunk is good. And the show loves to show his goodness. It's nice to see someone aspire to be the best at something without being a soul selling douchebag.
As anyone who has made it here likely feels, im not a fan of “subverting expectations” merely for the sake of subverting expectations (fuck you Ryan Johnson, even your name has to subvert expectations lol)
That said, it’s pretty safe to say that “trope subversion” is one of George’s strongest techniques; It’s pretty cool how Dunc is kind of the ultimate embodiment of “the deeds maketh the man”
Given that the official canon is that his character goes on to be one of the most lauded and documented knights in the realm, I can only assume this means the show would remain faithful and not subvert him.
Agreed, for 2026 standards it's a masterpiece, really stands out among the slop. The nice thing about these stories is they're hard to fuck up, they're just so straightforward. Sounds kike season 2 in 2027 and 3 in 2028 which is exciting
Correct. This show will be targeted for girl bossification. The purpose of all successful entities is to become jobs programs for women and minorities and/or plarforms for gay race communism.
I was curious since I’ve seen about and everything I saw just looked pretty good. I won’t subscribe to anything for it but I may take the old sailboat out this weekend and if I like it enough I’ll preorder the physical release
One too many. BUT they actually made it make sense. It is heavily implied that any non-whites are from Dorne, which checks out. Dorne is basically the GOT equivalent of Spain, and it has more influence from Essos (Middle East) and Sothryos (Africa), where as the majority of Westeros (Western and Northern Europe) do not.
I don't want to be a Debbie downer here, but pattern recognition has informed me to wait for the second season.
There are plenty of shows out there that start strong to hook in the normies, and then devolve with each subsequent season.
This is not to say that this show is like that or will become like that (I have not watched it, despite all the high praise it has been receiving from the anti-woke crowd). However, we have seen this pattern before.
Be vigilant.
100% right
That said, what they’ve made here is a tight and well made knight’s tale
One can hope it doesn’t go on to become the GoT Cinematic Universe’s Mandalorian, lol. But it probably will. The Pattern demands it.
It really breaks my heart when you brought up The Mandalorian. I actually really liked that show, but boy oh boy did they ruin that one.
I think as Mpetey said, even if the second season goes tits up for A Knight of the Seven Kingdom, at least it sounds like the first season hit a home-run.
How many times have you re-watched the early seasons of Game of Thrones since you saw the terrible ending?
For me the number is none.
After your girlfriend bangs your dad in your bed and then nails your beloved beagle to a door, you could look back on the five wonderful years of your relationship; But you won't.
Endings matter.
Yep, OG GoT is dead. George RR Martin and D&D made sure of that. Truthfully, the show runners got the worse end of it anyway. Their Star Wars project was canned and then who even hears about them anymore? People hate them. I doubt they ever figured that they'd run out of source material when they started the show.
Meanwhile, George continues to refuse to finish his books (probably because he can't figure out how and people hated his ending) and instead works on other projects, people eat it all up, and he continues to collect his big paydays.
That baby yoda shit was so dumb i immediately stopped watching. Pure fan baiting/selling toys. Who gives a shit really
I liked the idea of Baby Yoda, but as a one off episode. It was cute at first but got old really quick
Luckily Devil May Cry blew its load like four episodes on so I didn't even finish the first season. "demons are actually sympathetic creatures wahhhh diversity and tolerance!" in a show on an IP about killing demons mercilessly. Trash.
Wasn't this already known, though?
Wasn't what already known? I played the OG game from PS2 and I don't recall any demon sympathies aside from Dante himself being half demon. But the entire game is him killing demons, pretty cut and dry.
True, some shows don't even go a full season without going mask-off and revealing their power level.
True. But if that happens season 1 ended nicely and you can walk away dreaming about all the cool adventures of Dunk and Egg and avoid the bad.
In this case, they have the benefit of having books to adapt. It's not Hollywood scriptwriters who decide the plot points. The first season was a roaring success by very closely following the source material, and I do believe that they can successfully do this for the next 2 seasons, as well.
The problem will come after that, if they make the horrible decision to do a 4th season without a novella to adapt. GoT failed once GRRM's lazy communist ass couldn't give them a book in time, so I don't expect him to be able to shit out the 10 next chapters he promised of Dunk & Egg's adventure in the next 2 years. The showrunners will need to call it quit after 3 seasons if they want to leave the audience on a high note.
It is good. It’s like all the subversive writers were too busy inserting penises into Spartacus- house of Asher.
As someone else said - a bit scatalogical.
Good to hear. I just wish GRRM would finish Ice and Fire. I hear Dunk and Egg books are good
Unfortunately, they aren't finished either. So expect three good seasons for this show and then for it to all go to shit.
Ugh. Are the books still worth reading or is there a cliffhanger that may never be resolved like A Dance with Dragons
I haven't read them actually. I just know that there have only been three out of a planned six or seven that have been released. George loves to bite off more than he can chew.
At this point do we? Martin has burned bridges with a lot of fans with his crying about fans bugging him about the books. "Why don't you people like my Wild Cards stuff?"
Cause it sucks George. The zeitgeist is the show ending is unpopular, how much will the books vary?
True. Just makes me mad he has wasted so much time
Don't hold your breath. Its like waiting for David Gerrold to write the last War on the Chtorr book, it's only been 33 f@#$ing years.
Never heard of that. Would check it out but I don’t want to start a series with no ending
Won't happen. The show runners had to do a lot of gymnastics to not force the middle seasons to be a big mess of characters being all over the place with tons of strings to tie back up. They partly succeeded (putting aside the horrid S8) even if the quality was poorer than S1-4.
George spread his characters out even further and even added new ones on top of it. He can't finish the story because he can't figure out how to do it properly. Even worse is that his outline for the ending that was used on the show was universally hated by fans.
Well…there is that one scene lmfao
The thing is the show is super sincere about Dunk's goodness. The show can have all the subversion and sickness around him, but Dunk is good. And the show loves to show his goodness. It's nice to see someone aspire to be the best at something without being a soul selling douchebag.
As anyone who has made it here likely feels, im not a fan of “subverting expectations” merely for the sake of subverting expectations (fuck you Ryan Johnson, even your name has to subvert expectations lol)
That said, it’s pretty safe to say that “trope subversion” is one of George’s strongest techniques; It’s pretty cool how Dunc is kind of the ultimate embodiment of “the deeds maketh the man”
Given that the official canon is that his character goes on to be one of the most lauded and documented knights in the realm, I can only assume this means the show would remain faithful and not subvert him.
They can still have him hook up with Lyonel to fujoshi things to shit.
Agreed, for 2026 standards it's a masterpiece, really stands out among the slop. The nice thing about these stories is they're hard to fuck up, they're just so straightforward. Sounds kike season 2 in 2027 and 3 in 2028 which is exciting
I like how your autocorrect thought you saying 'kike' was more likely than saying 'like'.
LMAO its crazy how often I do that
Prediction
The chuds enjoyed this show. It must be destroyed, simple as that. There is no way they allow this show to survive, they hate the chuds that much.
Correct. This show will be targeted for girl bossification. The purpose of all successful entities is to become jobs programs for women and minorities and/or plarforms for gay race communism.
They hold the gay stuff for the 2nd or 3rd season.
No. They had their shot, im done with modern shows
Dunc the Nigger Lover, so based and redpilled
I was curious since I’ve seen about and everything I saw just looked pretty good. I won’t subscribe to anything for it but I may take the old sailboat out this weekend and if I like it enough I’ll preorder the physical release
It is very good. Very pleasantly surprised. Looking forward to the second season.
How many black chicks were in there?
One too many. BUT they actually made it make sense. It is heavily implied that any non-whites are from Dorne, which checks out. Dorne is basically the GOT equivalent of Spain, and it has more influence from Essos (Middle East) and Sothryos (Africa), where as the majority of Westeros (Western and Northern Europe) do not.
Do no YouTube links work here unless I actually go to YouTube to watch it?
Yeah most video embeds have been broken site wide for atleast a year or so now. Twitter sometimes works