re: Game of Thrones S7 E7 "The Dragon and the Wolf" MAESTERS THREAD NO SPOILERS

Game Of Thrones director admits the show’s timeline is “straining plausibility”

The director of the episode, Alan Taylor, hears fan questions about just how Davos knew which raven would fly the fastest, admitting to Variety that the timeline’s “getting a little hazy.”

As Taylor tells Variety, the Thrones team has been focusing on the “emotional experience” of Snow-cean’s Seven’s misguided mission rather than the particulars of how it unfolds. “We tried to hedge it a little bit with the eternal twilight up there north of The Wall. I think there was some effort to fudge the timeline a little bit by not declaring exactly how long we were there,” Taylor says, which “worked for some people, for other people it didn’t.” Noting that fans “seemed to be very concerned about how fast a raven can fly,” Taylor brings up “plausible impossibilities, which is what you try to achieve, rather than impossible plausibilities. So I think we were straining plausibility a little bit, but I hope the story’s momentum carries over some of that stuff.” Ultimately, the story took precedence over the pacing; there was just too much important stuff to address, though that doesn’t seem to include discussing just how stupid the plan to capture a wight was in the first place.

He continued: “If the show was struggling, I’d be worried about those concerns, but the show seems to be doing pretty well so it’s OK to have people with those concerns.”

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the show seems to be doing pretty well so it’s OK

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"Money makes it okay to produce shite TV"

Bran hasn't done much of anything this season.

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:sillygilly:

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That's Maester Gilly to you.

Sam didn't find what he was looking for at the Citadel and left before his training was complete.

Gilly never even enrolled in any classes and still aced the final.



"Good Gill Hunting"

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I think that may be just an iced over handle getting wet.

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That's what I'm thinking as well. I'm pretty sure the "eyes" are rubies and, therefore, red most of the time. Why wouldn't they be red again if they "open"?

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That's what I'm thinking as well. I'm pretty sure the "eyes" are rubies and, therefore, red most of the time. Why wouldn't they be red again if they "open"?

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Director confirmed it was not intentional:

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Renfro: Another thing people are obsessing over is this weird moment with Jon Snow's sword, Longclaw, where people thought the eyes of the wolf "opened" right before Jon came out of the water.

Taylor: That is so funny, somebody else mentioned that to me and I haven't got a clue what they're talking about. So either this sword is magic and it's doing stuff on its own or something happened. I'm going to have to go back and watch that moment close up and in slow motion to see what's going on there. I can say that there was no intention for that to be the case.

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Because I believe these two to be referenced by the Title:

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And their son shall be Luke Warm. The first of his name.

In!!

This season has gone by too fast.

I have a feeling the title is def a double meaning.

What that double meaning could be I have no idea. We haven't had a Bran flashback yet have we?