Game Of Thrones
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Tons of time warping and teleportation in Westeros these days.
That's one thing that really has the books bogged down, people taking A LOT of time getting from one place to the next and GRRM feeling the need to chronicle every step along the way. But the show has gone too far in the other direction.
First Euron build a huge fleet in no time at all. Then he teleports it to wherever it needs to be whenever it needs to be there.
John Snow makes it from one end of the continent to the other with apparently nothing eventful happening on his journey.
Just look at the map and realize Euron was first at King's Landing, then intercepted the rebel Iron fleet headed to Dorn, then delivered his hostages back to King's Landing, then intercepted the Unsullied fleet at Casterly Rock. He's got some fast ships!
I mean, the show doesnt specifically tell you how much time has passed or if the different scenes are in perfect time w/ each other. It's such a silly thing to complain about. Showing Jon Snow travel would be boring and tedious. What is he going to do that hasnt already been shown in the show? How many hours of show time need to pass for it to be acceptable time for Jon Snow to travel that far? Half a season?
If they did it well it wouldn't matter. The way the show is being presented it seems like people are time warping all over the place.
Would just time stamping each scene be enough for you?
It is obvious that months aren't passing between these cross-continental travel scenes. The show is still a lot of fun, and I enjoy the action and the drama between the characters, but the integrity of the timeline has been in the ****ter for 2 seasons now. Anything can happen anywhere at any time.
Why is that obvious exactly?
Are you saying nothing happened in the world in those weeks it took Jon Snow to cross the continent? The story doesn't progress much between these trips. it just holds for them to get there.
So? The writing makes it appear that they snuck up on them and got into close proximity. That's how they used to fight, they'd board to boat if they got close. I think that the Dornish leader being on a rebels ship to get home implies that she had no ships of her own with her. Otherwise she'd have gone on her own ship, even if traveling as a group.
TO much thought into it IMO.
How can we know when Jon left relative to the other parts of the story we see?
If we don't know the time when stuff is happening, then we can't really know. We just assume the stuff we see is happening in a linear time, but it might not be that way. They probably use that to their advantage to be lazy and have freedom to have wonky timelines that can't be fully explained though.
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