Jomi Adeniran

I don't think that I have probably fallen for a Game of Thrones episode pilot-wise since this.

This is probably something that has captured my entire heart, and it's probably because it's exactly what Game of Thrones isn't.

And I'll delve into that more as we go scene by scene, but this is wonderful.

It's probably because the visual language of this show is completely different from everything that it's ever been, and rather than this show being the antithesis of...

Game of Thrones, this is like the... We're in the Star Wars era now, to me, of Game of Thrones, where instead of making a thing that's about the politics, the conniving, the backstabbing, the grand sweeping narratives of kings and queens and rulers and backstabbers long past, it's about a guy and his horse and a kid.

And I love that.

And it's something that's...

far easier for me to both relate to and glom onto because it's so, so, so intimate already.

Like, I can glom onto that.

He's very much in love with the idea of being a knight because from what we've gleaned, he's idolized his old master and the knight that he squired for.

I don't know if he idolizes him.

I mean, he idolizes the thing that are supposed to make knights.

He was probably awful to him, but he was so in love with the idea of being a knight that it didn't register to him.

That it was just like, okay, well, you never beat me when I didn't deserve it, or when I didn't think that I didn't deserve it, except that one time.

And that's the thing, what he's thinking about when he has to bury him.

He doesn't know the words.

He doesn't know the things that are supposed to be grand and honorable.

It's supposed to be the things that...

he taught him or the things that he was about to train for.

And it's probably not much, but he loves the idea of being a Knight and serving and being honorable because you could see that in everything that he does in this pilot.