Chris Ryan

But they are so dedicated to keeping things in Dunk's perspective that you really are having a hard time, or I had a hard time, understanding who's getting hit, who's in danger.

And so I think that having this weird 15-20 minute break in between the opening five minutes and the last 10-15 minutes was pretty cool.

Yeah, in my mind, I was like, it was the whole flashback, and then we have, like, the bailer goes out.

Do you think that that's ultimately them adhering to we see Beesbury as much as Dunk does?

Okay, so I want to ask a little bit about that battlefield, but I'll just, to put a cap on the flashback and should they, shouldn't they?

Yeah.

I can make the argument that

Okay, so if he's going to compare something to Andor at home, you can check that off the bingo card.

Andor uses flashbacks to Cassian's youth to set up the Fiona Shaw character and explain the significance not only of her, but also why he is ultimately going to arrive at this anti-imperial rebellion in the first place.

I...

outside of, like, this sort of not-declared internal monologue about, like, I'll never... I am doing this for Dunk of Flea Bottom.

It's just kind of like, did he really think of this entire story and the five seconds between he got knocked off his horse and got back up?

Like...

It's a little bit of a break from the temporal reality of the show itself.

And usually the episode before the penultimate episode ends on some sort of cliffhanger.

So you're like, I somehow have to wait.

He's like, I'm going to die out here.

Yeah, I mean, it's also just a great testament to the economy of this show, which we've heralded for making the exact right choice and not wasting money and time doing other things.

You don't have...

some expensive tracking shot all through King's Landing.