For me, this new present sounds prefer it could possibly be an antidote to the uber-serious strategy to telling tales on this universe. “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight” seems like a really welcome left flip into a special nook of the world and a solution to have interaction with various kinds of characters and social strata in Westeros than what the earlier two exhibits prioritized. By shifting the main target away to the ground-level tales of residents within the realm, this present would possibly have the ability to save this franchise from turning into a self-important parody of itself and, like “Andor” did for the “Star Wars” universe, show that there are many different tales price telling right here — even when they do not contain a few of the iconography followers would possibly count on from a narrative set on this world.
I spoke about this on at present’s episode of the /Movie Day by day podcast, which you’ll hearken to beneath:
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