Chris Ryan

No, please continue.

We have to talk about the great crutch of prestige television.

Flashback in the throes of the season's climactic battle.

We are taken back to yesteryear outside of King's Landing where a battle has taken place.

I believe this is the Blackfire Rebellion.

Redgrass Field.

And a knight is lying on death's door in a young dunk with his friend Rafer looking to make a little money.

Yeah.

You're never going to believe this, but the flea bottom neighborhood of King's Landing is a little bit of a dog-eat-dog vibe.

Yep.

And it's presided over by a City Watch asshole named Alistair, who likes to shake people down like Duncan Rafe.

So they've gone, they've gone to this battlefield.

They got some leather, they got some horseshoes, whatever other coin they can find.

I wouldn't put it past myself.

Spoils the war?

In a dystopian post-apocalyptic society?

You're not going to eat anything for a dart, right?

If somebody had like a half-smoked camel weight, nobody adds.

R&D, Rafe and Dunk, they try to pawn some of the horseshoes and the leather and the sundry battlefield souvenirs, all to fund Rafe's Bruce Springsteen-esque dream of living this one-horse town where they probably also eat horses.

second bruce springsteen mentioned in the recap i did are you prepared to sing some lyrics this time i should how about this i promise you for the finale episode you're gonna sing to us i will write a bruce springsteen song about duncan egg we gotta remind him next week when i walk