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?

It would make absolutely no sense, given the logistics and the impossibility of their conversations being preplanned, or there being any reason to think they are having an effect on him, but would at least be more in character than Arya bragging about her ability to read faces and penetrate deceit in an episode where she gives every appearance of being suckered in by Petyr.

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!