The debate continues.
Right, that’s it. No spoiler alerts. Yipee, we’re officially past the point of spoiling Game of Thrones for people.
The Great War is approaching and while every Game of Thrones fan would be delighted to see this epic showdown stretched out over the course of a few seasons, the end is in sight.
Showrunners Benioff and Weiss have made it clear that there will only be six more episodes to end this superb song of ice and fire, but with such little time to spare, things have been moving at an accelerated pace.
As mentioned previously, plenty of Game of Thrones fans have been frustrated by the decision to ‘speed up’ certain events, journeys and plot lines.
These ‘teleporting’ characters have been noticeable throughout Season 7 but complaining about this one particular issue is like critiquing Messi or Ronaldo.
Even when an episode of Game of Thrones is only firing at 70%, it’s still better than most other TV shows.
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One character that did an awful lot of travelling around Westeros during Season 7 was Ser Davos Seaworth.
Jon Snow’s right-hand man started the season at Winterfell before heading to Dragonstone, King’s Landing and Eastwatch.
Speaking with The Washington Post, the incredibly cool Liam Cunningham was asked about this issue of characters ‘teleporting’ around Westeros and the decision to speed things along.
“The way I view this is, when we saw Ned Stark getting his head lobbed off in Season 1, and people looked at it and their jaws hit the ground because it was a game-changer — the leading man does not get killed — when that happened, people realized the rules no longer apply. That’s kind of like this jumping around with Varys and myself and a few others.”
Cunningham adds: “I mean, these are travel things, do you know what I mean? If we want them to stick to continuity, we’d have to wait another 12 episodes before Gendry got back to Eastwatch and gave me the news. The way I view drama is life with the boring bits taken out. I don’t really want to watch Varys eating his lunch or me under a tree waiting for the rain to pass so we can get somewhere. Let’s get rid of that stuff. As (“Beyond the Wall” episode director) Alan Taylor said, we did stretch the believability factor of that, but it was for the purposes of drama, and I think if you looked at whoever you were watching it with on the couch and went, “Well he got there quick,” I think you’d get over it. It’s a grown-up show for grown-ups; let’s cut out the boring bits.”
Truth be told, we would happily watch Ser Davos eating his lunch with Varys.
We reckon that The Onion Knight can make a mean fermented crab salad.
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Speaking with Variety, Game of Thrones director Alan Taylor has previously weighed in on this issue.
“We were aware that timing was getting a little hazy. We’ve got Gendry running back, ravens flying a certain distance, dragons having to fly back a certain distance…In terms of the emotional experience, [Jon and company] sort of spent one dark night on the island in terms of storytelling moments. 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. I think that worked for some people, for other people it didn’t. They seemed to be very concerned about how fast a raven can fly but there’s a thing called 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.”
Given the fact that we’ve all got to face the long wait for Season 8, we’re appreciating every second that Game of Thrones is with us.
Dear HBO, any chance of a few more episodes?
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