re: Game of Thrones S7 E6 "Beyond The Wall" MAESTERS THREAD NO SPOILERS

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Oh, you mean dragons coming down with 3 dozen Dothraki? I thought of that in Episode 2 when Tyrion said she couldn't afford light to the Red Keep on fire. I was just thinking there was no reason for that since the dragons could just land with people on their backs and not light the place on fire. Plus I don't see any real reason to safely assume the other 2 dragons would take Dothraki on their back without their mother. That theory was formed with nothing from Episode 6.

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Ok, if you came up with that on your own, that's fine. I don't think anyone else has, and you didn't post that until after the leak.

But people are whining about predictions a dragon would die and be turned, and that's really a pretty easy guess to make. On the other hand, flying a squad around on the back of a dragon hasn't been approached at all, and it's that sort of specific detail that makes people say "hey".

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tl;dr it took about 5 days for word to get to Dany and for her to get back to them. Which is about how long it would take for the ice to freeze enough to support the army of wights. Regarding Gendry, The Raven, and the timing of it all, it makes sense. I'm going to assume since they were looking for a lone White that they were not going in a straight line from East watch, they were probably going back and forth in a zigzag (rip rickon) so Gendry running at full speed back to the wall, let's say that took about 4 hours. The trip from Castle black to Winterfell is about 600 miles (a little farther from East watch), a raven going full speed (28mph) could probably make that trip in a little over a day. From Winterfell to King's Landing is about A Thousand Miles according to Cersei in S5E6, so it would be about the same maybe a little more from Winterfell to Dragonstone. So let's say it takes the raven 4 days to get to Dragonstone. Dragons on the other hand, I couldn't find much info about how fast they can go. So for the sake of argument let's say they top out with a rider at about 175 mph. So that's about a 12-hour flight straight to Snow Team 6. So the overall time it takes Danny to get to Jon, is about 5 days. This makes sense considering that they had to wait for the ice to freeze over the lake again. Considering that the ice had to support a huge hoard of wights, the ice would have to be around 8 inches thick. Assuming an average temperature of 10 °F (they're not that far north) the ice would be growing at 1.5 inches per day. This works out to 7.5 inches of ice. Guys, the math works out.

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This is ridiculous. It took Gendry probably an hour to run back to Eastwatch, probably about two hours for a raven to get to dragonstone, then about an hour for dany to get to the guys at the lake.

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The thing that really made no sense was why the NK went after Viserius instead of Drogon. The only "legitimate" explanation I can think of is that the NK had a premonition of him with Viserius and not Drogon.

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I think because one dragon was still actively killing all of his wights while the other was not.

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OR they referenced her inability to get pregnant a few times already this season what if she does get pregnant and Jon sacrifices himself protecting her? But it is pretty obvious one of them will not make it.

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In my perfect fanfic world, what should have happened last night was Dany came into his room and helped him undress and tended to his injuries then they start to kiss and it all goes down. They profess their love for each other and he takes her to Winterfell and proposes to her. They get married under the weirwood tree, have one night together as husband and wife before everyone finds out the wall has come down and the walkers are almost at Winterfell. Everyone starts fighting, but it's an epic battle and pretty much everybody dies at Winterfell. Jon and Dany and the few survivors flee to Kingslanding for help. Dany discovers she is pregnant at this time. The final battle comes just as Dany goes into labor, Jon rushes to be by her side and she dies the same way Jon's mother dies collectively breaking my heart and every other fan girl who has been shipping them for 7 years.


then I break my tv and never watch HBO again.

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So Arya is just supposed to forgive and forget the fact that Sansa may as well have swing the sword that decapitated their father by being a stupid, starry eyes count.

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Sansa didn't do anything. Ned was a dead man no matter what. If she didn't write the letter she would have been accused of treason and been dead too.

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In my perfect fanfic world, what should have happened last night was Dany came into his room and helped him undress and tended to his injuries then they start to kiss and it all goes down. They profess their love for each other and he takes her to Winterfell and proposes to her. They get married under the weirwood tree, have one night together as husband and wife before everyone finds out the wall has come down and the walkers are almost at Winterfell. Everyone starts fighting, but it's an epic battle and pretty much everybody dies at Winterfell. Jon and Dany and the few survivors flee to Kingslanding for help. Dany discovers she is pregnant at this time. The final battle comes just as Dany goes into labor, Jon rushes to be by her side and she dies the same way Jon's mother dies collectively breaking my heart and every other fan girl who has been shipping them for 7 years.

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This, but with Tormund and Brienne.

I'm going to say since they possibly spent the night, 8-12 hours.


Reminded me of tremors

Ned died because he was stupid.