Warning! Spoilers ahead for House of the Dragon season 2, episode 2.

House of the Dragon showrunner Ryan Condal explains Sansa Stark's connection to the Cargyll fight scene in season 2, episode 2. Adapting the events of George R. R. Martin's Fire & Blood, the Game of Thrones spinoff show returned for season 2 earlier this month, continuing the story of the escalating conflict between the Greens and the Blacks. House of the Dragon season 2, episode 2, sees Ser Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel) send Ser Arryk Cargyll (Luke Tittensor) to kill Rhaenyra at Dragonstone, but Arryk ends up facing off against his twin brother, Ser Erryk (Elliot Tittensor), with both ultimately perishing.

In a recent interview with THR, Condal explains Sansa's connection to this House of the Dragon fight scene. Sansa recounts and romanticizes the Cargyll twins' fight in Martin's A Song of Ice & Fire novel series, and the showrunner explains that they wanted the show's version to feel more real and "gritty." Check out Condal's comment below:

"The book depicts a few different versions of that story. I was always fascinated by the Cargyll twins story because that was a story that Sansa Stark romanticized — going back to the Song of Ice and Fire books. And, of course, Sansa has this very Sansa-like romantic vision of what that fight was like and how they dueled for hours as though it was the duel from The Princess Bride . But the real thing would be much more brutal and gritty. We wanted to try to find the central line through it.

"There’s a version where they’re cursing each other’s names and calling each other 'traitor' and that just didn’t feel like the characters we’d set up. We have these two people who found themselves on different sides of this conflict and not knowing what to do with this oath. I think that makes it more of a tragedy when you see these two brothers trying to hold to their oath but find themselves in literal mortal combat against each other in order to uphold it."

Source: THR

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