By skyforbes 
It’s a dramatic trailer opening as you see Duncan (Peter Claffey) carrying an old, dead man in the rainy, overcast hills.
“I was squire to Sir Arlan of Pennytree since I was a boy,” Duncan said.
The thunder roars, but it cuts to the beautiful sunny woodlands of Westeros as you see trees and the river. On screen, you read….
A Tale 100 Years Before
Game of Thrones
“He charged me to be a good knight.”
Full disclosure, I am a big Game of Thrones fan. I haven’t read the prequel novellas, but all 3 are compiled in the book A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. From research, Duncan did not come from nobility. Sir Arlan got him from the slums of Westeros. Sir Arlan is a Hedge Knight. In this world, a Hedge Knight is not bound to any lord, kingdom, or noble family. They’re like freelance knights. Many Hedge Knights are shady. They act like hired guns, selling their services to the highest bidder. However, Sir Arlan chose the more noble path. He protected the weak and the poor, and he taught all those values and wisdom to Duncan. BTW, Duncan has a secret: he hasn’t been knighted yet. He identifies as and self-declared to be a knight, Sir Duncan the Tall.
In front of a tree with 3 horses (black, brown, white) parked behind him…
Shiiiinggg!
Sir Duncan pulled out the sword from his scabbard.
“He charged me to be a good knight,” Sir Duncan said.
It cuts to inside a castle. He puts on his clothes and a badass helmet.
But then…
A guy holding a horse raised his voice, “Are you Baylor Targaryen?”
“Uhm, no,” Sir Duncan responded.
“Then would you move the f*** out of the way,” the guy said.
Sir Duncan apologized, bowed, and moved to the side.
It cuts to nighttime. A bald kid named Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell) sat in front of a fire, “What’s your name?”
“Sir Duncan the Tall,” the ‘knight’ responded.
“I never heard of him,” Egg said.
Sir Duncan sneered, “You know all the knights of the Seven Kingdoms then?”
“The good once,” Egg responded (with a sick burn).
This one tends to be more lighthearted than Game of Thrones or House of the Dragon.
“If you could bring me to Ashford,” Egg said, “I could squire for you, Sir.”
It cuts to daytime at some sort of town fair. Sir Duncan walked away. He looked back once at Egg. “Robb me, and I’d hunt you down, with dogs.”
“You don’t have dogs!” Egg raised his voice.
“I’ll get some,” Sir Duncan said.
“Where?” Egg asked.
Duncan faced Egg, and then….
WOOOOFFFF!
He barked like a dog. The kid got startled.
It cuts to Sir Duncan looking over at a bridge in the distance. He saw bannermen with horses. He squinted his eyes — Targaryen Banners.
It cuts to inside the Targaryen castle, Dragonstone. I think Sir Duncan took a job there. But if that’s the case, he is no longer a hedge knight. Maybe he pretended to be a peasant and took a job in Dragonstone.
The arrogant Aerion Targaryen (Finn Bennett), aka Le Flamboyant, entered Dragonstone on a horse. “Boy, stop gaping,” he told Duncan. “See to my horse.”
“I’m not a stable boy, my Lord,” Duncan said.
Aerion smirked, “Not clever enough?”
Okay, you immediately feel he’s the douchebag of the story. But I feel there’s a redeeming quality there. Maybe he turns into a good guy in the end. This is all a fiction writer’s instinct, folks.
It cuts to Sir Duncan in a large tent. It looks like a circus. A dragon is on stage with Tanselle (Tanzyn Crawford). She smiled and made eye contact with Sir Duncan, who responded with a half smile.
“I know I’m just a Hedge Knight,” Sir Duncan’s voiceover says, “but sometimes I think I could be more.”
In this world, Hedge Knights are known to be poor. Maybe that’s why many of them take on the ‘hired gun’ route.
It cuts to Sir Duncan in the study room of King Maekar Targaryen (Sam Spruell), who did a phlegm hawk tuah to his chalice. As I’ve mentioned, the overall tone of the story is more lighthearted compared to GOT and HOTD. The royalty are portrayed as spoiled and comedic.
It cuts to Sir Dunk and Egg talking inside the castle walls. “Why do you treat these royal lapdogs like their your betters?”
“They are my betters,” Sir Duncan responded.
It cuts to Sir Duncan in a tent talking to Baelor Targaryen (Bertie Carvel), who is portrayed in the books as a kind of a good guy. “This men have a name, and training,” Sir Duncan told Baelor, “What chance do I have?”
It cuts to men training and hacking each other with a sword. One guy kicked another guy so hard that he broke the wooden fence.
“Oh, you have no chance,” Baelor Targaryen said.
It cuts to Sir Duncan and Egg lying, staring at the sky. A shooting star flew by. “Falling star brings luck to those who see it,” Egg told him.
“So the luck is ours alone?,” Sir Duncan asked Egg.
BTW, just between us, I ‘heard’ of a rumor that Egg is a ‘secret Targaryen.’ That’s why he is bald. His real name is Aegon. But that’s all rumors. It might be FAKE NEWS.
It cuts to a foggy, overcast day. You see 7 knights on horses ready for a joust. This is the climax of the story — a 7 vs. 7 joust.
“I need to fight honorably,” Sir Duncan said. “Sometimes I think I buried my courage alongside the old man.”
You hear the voiceover of Lyonel Baratheon (Daniel Ings), “In every man, there are many men. So be brave….”
It cuts to knights charging. It must be the 7 vs. 7 joust. Two knights clashed and flew off their horses.
“….Be just….”
It cuts to a knight getting his head smashed with a flail, and then he falls to the ground.
And then you finally see Lyonel Baratheon smiling, wearing a crown with stag horns. “Be TALL,” he told Sir Duncan.
The trailer ends with the POV of the knights charging for the 7 vs. 7 joust.
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