GAME OF THRONES Director Alan Taylor Admits That Rescue Timeline Didn't Quite Work
Thor: The Dark World helmer Alan Taylor returned to HBO's Game of Thrones this past Sunday to direct season 7's penultimate episode which saw Jon Snow and his Suicide Squad venture beyond The Wall.
Last Sunday's new episode of Game of Thrones certainly opens up a world of possibilities for the show's season 7 finale. The daring mission by Jon Snow and his motley crew to capture one of the White Walkers' wights ended up needing Daenerys to mount a dashing rescue with her dragons.
However, once the excitement and disbelife with how the episode ended wears off, fans have been questioning how so much ground was covered in seemingly a small amount of time. Speaking to Variety, Alan Taylor admits they had to fudge a bit of geogrpahy to make the episode work and they pinned their hopes that the "emotional experience" would hid their "fudging of the timeline."
"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."
It's nice to see Taylor openly admitting that the logistics of Daenerys rescue doesn't quite add up with what was presented in the show. However, there are some Game of Thrones fans that are committed to proving that Gendry could make the run back to the Keep, send a Raven to Dragonstone and have dragons make a 2,000+ mile journey to fry some undead skeletons before Jon and co. froze to death.
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