A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms showrunner compares Dunk and Egg to Game of Thrones' Arya and the Hound: "George [R.R. Martin] does odd couple pairings better than anyone"

Dunk and Egg in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms — (Image credit: HBO)

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms creator Ira Parker thinks his show's central duo, Dunk and Egg, have something in common with some fan favorite pairings in the original Game of Thrones series.

"I would say the main difference is that we're just Game of Thrones without all the stuff," Parker says during a roundtable interview attended by GamesRadar+. "We don't have the dead coming to kill mankind. We don't have the politics, really. We don't have the massive roving POVs from different families and different characters. We have one character: we have Dunk, and we have Egg, our little stable boy, and I would say that relationship is probably closest to the dynamic of something from Game of Thrones along the lines of the Hound and Arya or Pod and Brienne."

If you cast your mind back to seasons 3 and 4 of Game of Thrones, you'll remember that Arya Stark and Sandor Clegane, AKA the Hound, travel across Westeros together as the Hound repeatedly tries (and fails) to ransom Arya to various family members. Podrick Payne, meanwhile, is assigned as Brienne of Tarth's squire by Jaime Lannister in season 4 to accompany her on her mission to find Sansa Stark after she goes missing from King's Landing.