A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: Going Deep with Tinkered Thinking and Jameson Olsen ⚔️🥚🛡️🏰🐴

About this episode

The episode features a deep dive into HBO's adaptation of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, comparing it to the original novella and discussing various aspects of storytelling and character development.

I recruited my friends Tinkered Thinking (✍️📚 author of White Mirror & The Lucilius Parables ) and Jameson Olsen (🎧 host of Becoming the Main Character ) to do a *deep* dive on A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms , HBO's adaptation of George R.R. Martin's 1998 novella The Hedge Knight . 🚨 If you haven’t seen the show, bookmark this and come back. Seriously. This one’s worth avoiding spoilers and going in blind. 🚨 I was totally charmed by this series. The writing, the acting, the music, the cinematography, the sets, and the costumes. It all feels more tactile and real than most of what's on TV right now. And here's the thing: after we watched it, we all read the novella, and we all agree the show might actually be better . That almost never happens with adaptations. In this pod, we go episode by episode, compare the novella to the show, and argue about what we want from season two. Along the way, we get into trailers that ruin movies, what makes a great villain entrance (hint: it involves a horse 🐴), the philosophy of praxis , David Goggins taking souls, and why Dunk might be one of the most lovable protagonists on television right now, despite being “thick as a castle wall.” Some…

People in this episode

Host: Liberty

Guests: Tinkered Thinking, Jameson Olsen

Topics covered

• HBO adaptation
• literary analysis
• character development
• storytelling
• philosophy
• film critique

Keywords

• A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
• HBO
• George R.R. Martin
• adaptation
• character analysis
• storytelling
• philosophy
• David Goggins

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, The Hedge Knight

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