who says Euron was at Casterly rock we only saw ships, and he many have more than one fleet, the main one at kings landing and a smaller one protecting the iron islands and nipping down to wipe out the troop carriers at casterly rock
Look, I love the show too, but there is no defending it any more - especially after this episode - time and space continuum of the narration is lost. We might not particularly care how Jon Snow manages his 1600 mile journey from Winterfell to Dragonstone faster than Aria going 2/3rd of the distance in the opposite direction with a head start, because it doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things - maybe he took a motorboat and it became one of those Top Gear features. We might overlook how Aria covered twice as much space as White Walkers had to Winterfell, and get there before them, because you know - that's the main payload of the season - we'll wait. We can speculate that Euron split his fleet in two or that his intel and fleet is omnipresent on all seas. We can keep coming up with excuses, but to put it simply -
we weren't told, we weren't shown any of these things.
When they do the whole "Hey, where is Danny, donno, she was gone after lunch" shtick at the beach of Dragonstone - the plot get really shoddily complicated for no other reason than lazyness:
- Before Theon manage to return to the Dragonstone from where Euron sunk their fleet, Danny and Dorthraki cross the entire Bay in the opposite direction and get to the shores of Westeros.
- With what when both parts of her fleet are sunk by Euron?
- Even if some of the ships survived, how come Euron's omnipresent fleet allowed Danny and Dorthraki to go across the Blackwater Bay untouched?
- No intel reached Greysjoys or Lannisters? Satellite phones work in the middle of the night at Blackwater Bay, they work minutes after Unsullied storm the castle, but conveniently they don't work when Danny flies dragons across Crownlands?
- Consequently how does Danny and Dorthraki manage to cover hundreds of miles, sail or gallop past King's Landing and deep, deep inland to Blackwater's Rush and surprise Jamie, who apparently is still on the way in the opposite direction? How did she even know?
We aren't told how all of these things are possible not because plot runs fast and there is no time to tell us - there is time - this episode was only 46 minutes long from credits to credits, there was plenty of time to create time and space perspective with few extra scenes. We aren't told these things because the makers don't give a dragon's excrement anymore. They got 40% payrise from HBO for this season, they then decided to make themselves extra 30% bonus on top of payrise by shortening runtime from 10 to 7 episodes and still couldn't care enough to deliver coherent plot. They started resolving everything in the laziest of ways - "because", deus ex machina, right place, right time. How did she manage to get there so quick? How do all of these people now manage to be everywhere they inexplicably forsee the need to be, always in right places at the right time, all the time? "somehow". dealwithitmeme.gif
What's the second thing?
