A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: Ser Arlan’s “pee” scene explained

“Was it a prosthesis? Maybe…”

Like an echo of the scat opening of the first episode of the new series Game of Thrones, episode 2 of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms began with a scene… peeing.

A scene once again very graphic and quite improbable, since it shows a flashback of Ser Arlan of Pennytree urinating in the morning when he wakes up, in the fresh air. Staggering completely naked out of a brothel, he goes to relieve himself. Either. The little extra thing? He holds in his hand, facing the camera, a gigantic penis. A huge penis. Completely disproportionate…

So much so that after explaining the poop scene from episode 1, the showrunner and co-creator of the series, Ira Parker, explains today in EW the pee scene from episode 2 and in particular this anatomy of hell. “It was a prosthesis? Maybe… I don’t know anymore… I forgot” laughs the screenwriter in the interview. “I thought he arrived on set like that, but maybe it was a prosthetic.”

Beyond this moment of glory, the sequence lays the foundations of the late knight-errant (Danny Webb), unknown hero, man of duty and few other virtues:

“At one point I felt sorry for Ser Arlan,” Parker continues of this introduction. “He was always the only person looking out for Dunk. And he died on a muddy road in the middle of nowhere, buried without ceremony. Now Dunk wanders around trying to find someone who just remembers him—the people he served, the people he bled for. And none of these knights or lords even remember his name. I felt the need to give him a little moment of his own, a Boogie Nights-style wink, I guess…”

However, the screenwriter does not want to dwell too much on the sequence, which lasts only a few seconds in an episode largely devoted to the man who was Ser Arlan of Pennytree:

“That scene is there, we can’t ignore it. But that’s not the story we’re telling. It’s just an embellishment, it doesn’t change anything else. To survive long enough and become an old knight-errant, you had to be made of some hell of a metal. It was a tough time for everyone, even more so for a warrior living under the trees in the 14th century. He’s small, thin… so I told myself that he must have something that helped him get through these intense battles. A certain energy, let’s say…”

Season 1 of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms will continue next Monday on HBO Max in France.