Game of Thrones director addresses those timeline inconsistencies Beyond the Wall

Winter has come to Game Of Thrones – and, as of Monday night’s episode, so has Weta Digital.

It’s true that the walkers on The Walking Dead can be quite tough to defeat, especially in large numbers, but at least they don’t have leaders who are intelligent enough to launch javelin spears at the living. The most recent example?

If you’ve seen this week’s episode of Game Of Thrones, we think you’ll agree that it’s one of the best episodes of the HBO show in history.

There are massive spoilers ahead for last night’s Game of Thrones, and possibly for future episodes as well. That tends to happen when you introduce things like a strong alliance between the show’s two main characters, an ice dragon, and a young woman threatening to cut her sister’s face off. Many criticized the pacing to be so convenient, and Daenerys’ arrival beyond the Wall seems to be just another deus ex machina for Jon Snow’s survival.

He called her Dany … and then “My Queen” while they held hands and gazed … for just a moment.

The length of the Season 7 finale marks another record for GoT in a season that has seen repeated viewership and ratings highs too. But what many may have missed is the importance of the falling of Thoros, one of the Brotherhood Without Banners, after he was mauled by an undead bear. Tyrion and Davos traveled to King’s Landing and back to Dragonstone in a single episode, while similar passage of time was shown at Winterfell.

It was catastrophic, but in an even more terrible way than I could have imagined.

But things quickly went from and to worse as soon as the heroes left for The Wall.

“In my episode we get to take a big step forward in that Jon is no longer competing with her – he was willing to bow down and recognize her as queen”, Taylor said.

“There’s only one war that matters and it is here”, Jon Snow says at the end of the trailer, which will presumably precede the type of scene that’ll have you on your knees in front of the TV.

Plausible impossibilities or not, Game of Thrones has hit the apex of speed and many hope that it would slow down slightly so we can enjoy the story without being distracted by convenient time shifts. Even discarding the fact that it’s a fantasy show and we shouldn’t take it seriously, when a series sets rules for itself it should follow them lest it get bogged down in plot holes like this.