Westeros is not that big?!? (Granted the show gives that impression at times, but it's always annoying.) It's three thousand miles from the Wall to Dorne, and several hundred miles across at any given point. Dragonstone is "close" to King's Landing in the sense that it's only about 400 miles away, at the other end of…

Yeah, that's evidently what was intended. But the scene on-screen was ambiguous enough in the moment that it's understandable why people could be confused.

Also, it's fair to assume that the success of the show (and the resulting book sales) have made GRRM much, much richer than he ever expected to be. When you've hit the kind of success that most writers only dream of, it's understandably tempting to take some time to enjoy it rather than being slaved to a keyboard,…

I'm inclined to think that most of Bran's story hasn't been remotely contemporary with the other events of the episodes it's appeared in. When was the last time he actually crossed paths with other characters — Craster's Keep? Since then, we can probably assume that he was dragged (fairly expeditiously) through the…

Reasonable? Seems like Olenna just wants vengeance at this point, and would be perfectly content to see Dany reign as queen of the ashes.

C'mon, GoT has always been the kind of show that *rewards* critical thinking, not the kind that resists it. If you can just turn those faculties off and enjoy letting the experience of the show wash over you, more power to you, but I don't think that's what most of the audience is looking for… at least, not that part…

No reason to make this personal. I'm not "attacking" anything, and it seems a bit harsh to accuse me of "trivial overthinking." I'm just asking logical questions that occurred to me, about which there was little or no information given on-screen. I'm as familiar as anyone with interpolating plot details in a work of…

Yeah, but the vikings never had massive fleets of warships equipped to engage in battles at sea. Whole different tech level here (and a whole lot more trees needed).

Yeah, that would be the "treat him like a complete enemy" approach. But they're not doing that, either. Really they seem to be treating him as if he and any plans he might have pose no risk at all, which just doesn't make any sense.

I guess we've read their scenes together differently. My impression during that exchange where he "told her everything" was that she pretty bluntly rebuffed him. She doesn't trust him, true (who would?), but she's not trying to get him to trust *her*, either, which seems foolhardy.

Good point, the Masters did have ship-mounted catapults (although I seem to recall some fans with engineering know-how questioning the plausibility of that). But that was in Slavers' Bay; we've never seen such things in Westeros before, AFAIK.

Could be, but then *why* was he there? He can't have been doing research on grayscale, since apparently only Maesters (and trainees) have access to the library. He can't have been either a prisoner or a guest, since the Arch-Maester told him to leave. If he was just biding his time waiting for an appointment with an…

If that sort of weaponry were commonplace, though, why the heck would the KL defense plan involving the Wildfire during the Battle of the Blackwater have come as such a complete surprise to Stannis's navy?

"Dragonstone for the dragonglass" makes no sense in-story, because even if Dany and company know it's there (for which we have no evidence), they have no reason to *want* it, since they certainly know nothing about the threat from the White Walkers. We can't assume characters are acting on motivations that only make…

Perhaps we've become spoiled by the long-form story arcs of shows like GoT, but it's worth remembering that 13 hours (for the final two seasons) is actually a *lot* of screen time. That's like seven full-length feature films. There's plenty of time in there to do the characters justice if the showrunners wanted to,…

Perhaps, except (A) that would take even longer, (B) there wasn't so much as a line of dialogue to suggest it — Euron just ordered the construction of a massive fleet, and next time we saw him, *poof* he had it, and (C) the nearest pillage-able territory to the Iron Islands is all in the Westerlands, which are still…

Oh, like the show is following any kind of clear timeline at this point? Clearly weeks (if not months) are passing in each episode, even if some scenes pretend otherwise. Distance still exists, after all, and for all the jokes online the characters don't actually teleport.

Definitely. I also picked up some hints of Trump in Varys's retrospective description of Cersei's late unlamented ex, King Robert — "his problem was simply that he didn't care about being king," or words to that effect.

"That's what I do. I drink, and I know things."

Tyrion's plan is politically sensible for the reasons he described on-screen, but yes, logistically complicated for the reasons you describe — *given that* Dany's forces are staging things from Dragonstone.