Mallory Rubin

Well, now we all know.

Look at that.

Saving only perhaps the crown prince, Bailiff Rigsbeard himself.

A bodice ripper?

Keep the commentary coming.

Did crab make you think more of Davos, son of a crabber, or your actual favorite character, Chris Cole, a crab eater, back on top?

Give us your, what's your Aryan vibe, Chuck?

Very Lionel Baratheon laughing storm of you just now.

Was it?

I really like in the book that he, you know, he comes in and it's with raiment bright as flame, all reds and yellows and golds.

He's basically just trying to walk in looking, yeah, peacocking and looking like as dragon-y and as wreathed in fiery dragon flame as possible.

So I think in general, obviously the show, the shows have a little bit of a subtler feel

visual uh palette than that and so i think this makes sense as a treatment and the hair is doing all the work that frankly we need but i will i i did i did long for that a little bit what i what i really love about his entrance though is the way that that that's where we get that great line that we've we've mentioned many times across the trailer pods and so far covering the season on dunk he felt ill at ease enough around the lords and their pavilions he had no business speaking to princes like confronting arian it's a real like

Why am I talking to these people?

And then he's got to go have this conversation with Baylor and Maker and Lord Ashford and our dude Plummer.

Yes, exactly.

It's a perfect comp.

And he feels very pained.

Like, it's expressly stated in the novella that he feels like he's betraying an old friend because this was...

obviously Thunder is the war horse, but, you know, Sweetfoot mattered a lot to Arlen and Arlen taught him, we talked about this on House of Ard, like care for these animals and to take their care seriously and that if he had a copper left, he would spend it on an apple for them.