How far north do you think they were from the wall?
How long do you think it would take to run back to the wall?
How far away do you think Dragonstone is from the wall?
Don't pull this shit with a story for which there are not only maps, but you highlight the fact by SHOWING a version of the map at the beginning of every episode!
Martin has said Westeros is about the size of South America. I suppose that a raven can fly from say, Bogota or Medelin, to Benos Aires or Montevideo in less than a night.
Do you suppose Brienne & Podrick will arrive at Kingslanding, on an overland voyage, in approximately the same amount of time it takes Jon & company to sail there with their wight?
Because the Lord of Light wants everything to go juuust in the heroes' favor without them getting cocky. Didn't you get that reading between the lines of dialogue? Why else would they happen to stumble across a band of undead where ALL BUT ONE wight had been created by their Walker boss, and thus was conveniently animate after Jon offed him?
You might as well ask why the wights who dragged Jon under the water let him go, when he didn't have any fire to drive them off, and they don't need to breathe.
The writers' puppet strings are REALLY showing badly. They obviously wanted to make it LOOK like Jon died so Dany can miss him. They can't kill the popular Hound or Tormund whose Brienne crush they are determined to ride for all it's worth, and they have two different flaming sword guys, so one of them can go. From a writing standpoint, that makes perfect sense. By the rules of the game, the two people who weild the most useful weapon in their situation should be the two most like to survive. Also, the guy with fire magic dies of hypothermia. You had ONE JOB, magical fire powers!
Stupidest ways for a guy with magical fire powers to die:
- Freezing to death
- Tripping or being overlooked in the dark
- Obstacles made of wood, paper, wax or ice
- Trichinosis
Yeah, nice try, Thoros.
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Deus Vult!
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