How long were they on Dead Man’s Rock for? Guess that’s where you drag the time for continuity reasons – they were there long enough for the ice to freeze over again, after all.
Granted the return journey was always gonna be the quickest what with dragons and such. Not to mention Gendry’s marathon run or Dany’s return journey.That raven was pretty swift, wasn’t it? Got all the way to Dragonstone in the time the other buggers spent stranded on Dead Man’s Rock.Oh believe me though, I could make a big old list about all the things that happened in this episode that made no sense and I’m not even talking about the Sansa/Arya thing – I mean literally no sense. Someone check the late king Robert’s bank statements (because let’s be honest we know where all those kids were conceived and it starts with ‘T-’ and ends with ‘-he Whorehouse’). Eventually that would’ve told but luckily Gendry ran so fast he must have a Kenyan mother or something. Unless the White Walkers get involved then the only advantage that lot has is their sheer overwhelming numbers. They sure dragged it out but these are the finest soldiers in Westeros up against a bunch of uncoordinated skeletons, pretty much. Is it weird that about five guys were able to fend off so many enemies for so long? Ah, not really. Then the battle and the salvation and the massive tactical swing and all that too. The little interactions between these blokes with competing histories but a common cause, the atmospheric cold, the isolation, the terror, all of the above. Just, erm… a matter of getting to him and all.Īll of that was thrilling stuff. Now, these zombies don’t follow most of that logic but if you take it symbolically then the head is the leader and you kill him you take all those he “turned” along with him automatically. As they said in Shaun of the Dead, you get them by “removing the head or destroying the brain”.
We know how to destroy the whole army of them: Kill the Boss. But we also know how to destroy that dragon now. He lived and he drank and sometimes he brought his made back form the dead. Pats on the back if you had Thoros in the death stakes this week. Probably wouldn’t back them as runners either – Gendry demolished that pack in the Frozen Marathon and just like the original marathon he collapsed at the end of it bearing urgent news. Those suckers clearly don’t know a doggy paddle from stick in the mud. I’m just gonna say that if the northern territories enter a team in the next Olympics, I hope New Zealand boycotts it.