This put up comprises very gentle spoilers from the start of A Knight of the Seven Kingdom’s first episode.

The collection premiere of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is now accessible on HBO in your viewing pleasure. In case you’ve watched it, that the tone is completely different from the reveals within the Recreation of Thrones universe that got here earlier than it. Our single viewpoint on the present is Dunk (Peter Claffey) a younger hedge knight looking for his method after his mentor (for lack of a greater phrase) dies.

A particular sequence early on within the episode makes clear that Seven Kingdoms, whereas being a narrative with coronary heart, isn’t as critical as Recreation of Thrones and Home of the Dragon. In it, Dunk decides to move a tourney and win, gaining standing as a knight. The long-lasting theme track from Recreation of Thrones swells within the background, however then there’s a tough lower to Dunk bareass behind a tree having explosive diarrhea.

In a press convention for the present that Reactor attended, showrunner Ira Parker defined the genesis of that sequence. “This all comes again to character. That second for Dunk, he’s at a crossroads and he’s selecting up his grasp’s sword, and he hears that decision to greatness. He hears the hero theme in his head, and the script was [originally] written, it stated, ‘Right here’s [Dunk’s] hero’s theme.’

“However once we went alongside by means of manufacturing, by means of put up, and Dan Romer was composing Dunk’s hero theme, it was once more a mirrored image of Dunk: So it was stripped down. It was less complicated. It wasn’t that huge, orchestral, fantastic heroic rating. And so it didn’t really feel precisely proper on this second, as a result of this can be a name to one thing that Dunk needs sooner or later. So he hears that theme, as a result of that’s the best hero name that there’s. And within the second—he’s not a hero but, he hasn’t completed something—and rapidly, when he thinks about how daunting the duty in entrance of him goes to be, it makes him nervous.”

That nervousness, Parker continued, made him queasy, a lot in order that “he finds himself squatting behind the tree in a really unheroic, some would say the least heroic place, as a result of at this level, Dunk just isn’t but a hero.”

Claffey added that it the scene was extremely humorous to shoot. “We closed the set and considered one of my actually good pals in props, Gordo, was in entrance of me, and I’m holding a pipe in between my legs, and he’s simply utilizing it to trigger this [poop] to return out. And he couldn’t take a look at me in the course of the factor as a result of he simply couldn’t cease laughing.”

Bertie Carvel, who performs Baelor Targaryen on the collection, additionally shared what that scene—and the present—units up: “It’s inviting us all to ask ourselves whether or not we generally is a hero… Dunk, he, in fact, goals of as all of us did as youngsters, of doing heroic feats. After which we lower to him shitting behind a tree, and he’s reminded of his humanity, his mortality, his limitations, and so forth.

“And [later on,] he seems round him and he sees knights who appear extra succesful and grander. And that’s why it’s relatable. And I believe that’s why it’s a heroic story, as a result of it’s grounded in one thing fairly humane and mortal. I believe it will be good if we’d all ask ourselves the query: What it will imply to be extra heroic? And I believe folks on a regular basis do issues, abnormal issues, which are deeply heroic.”

The remaining 5 episodes of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms will drop weekly on HBO Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT. A second season of the collection has already been greenlit, which means we’ll see extra of Dunk and Egg someday sooner or later.