If Danny can just pop in hundreds of miles inland (without any way of having intel where Lannister army is).
She also had heat resistance at least when she bathed in the super hot water didn't she? Very near the start.
Lastly, some fans are reading too much into the scene in GAME OF THRONES where the dragons are born -- which is to say, it was never the case that all Targaryens are immune to all fire at all times.
Granny: Do Targaryens become immune to fire once they "bond" to their dragons?
George RR Martin: Granny, thanks for asking that. It gives me a chance to clear up a common misconception. TARGARYENS ARE NOT IMMUNE TO FIRE! The birth of Dany's dragons was unique, magical, wonderous, a miracle. She is called The Unburnt because she walked into the flames and lived. But her brother sure as hell wasn't immune to that molten gold.
Revanshe: So she won't be able to do it again?
George RR Martin: Probably not.
If Danny can just pop in hundreds of miles inland (without any way of having intel where Lannister army is) past King's Landing, then taking King's Landing becomes irrelevant. There is no threat from King's Landing, you can just waltz hordes, ships and dragons past King's Landing. The biggest, strongest strategic point of Westeros is useless. Now Danny can send small Dorthraki unit to Highgarden and half the civilised continent is hers. With one quick raid. If only several generations of kings and throne usurpers thought of that...
The TLDR was producers lazyness - things are just happening "tada!" without precedence in this season. Sloppy scripting decisions have consequences. If Danny can just pop in hundreds of miles inland (without any way of having intel where Lannister army is) past King's Landing, then taking King's Landing becomes irrelevant. There is no threat from King's Landing, you can just waltz hordes, ships and dragons past King's Landing. The biggest, strongest strategic point of Westeros is useless. Now Danny can send small Dorthraki unit to Highgarden and half the civilised continent is hers. With one quick raid. If only several generations of kings and throne usurpers thought of that...
Surely Highgarden would have sent a raven to Dragonstone once they were under siege?
that's true
they were ambushed on the Rose Road, the main road coming all the way from Highgarden, you don't need to know someone's exact location if you know they're going to, at some point, be travelling in a slow moving convoy along one big long road...
Oh for god of light's sake - it was just an example of an obvious continuity issue caused by entire scene(s) missing in an episode that had 14 minutes to spare for such scenes.
The TLDR was producers lazyness - things are just happening "tada!" without precedence in this season. Sloppy scripting decisions have consequences. If Danny can just pop in hundreds of miles inland (without any way of having intel where Lannister army is) past King's Landing, then taking King's Landing becomes irrelevant. There is no threat from King's Landing, you can just waltz hordes, ships and dragons past King's Landing. The biggest, strongest strategic point of Westeros is useless. Now Danny can send small Dorthraki unit to Highgarden and half the civilised continent is hers. With one quick raid. If only several generations of kings and throne usurpers thought of that...
They were ambushed at Blackwater Rush crossing.
Seconds earlier captains had a meeting confirming that the gold train reached King's Landing. Jamie said "we need to reach capital by night fall". Entire khalasars (with dragons) camping just outside King's Landing unnoticed create even more plot holes than horde scoring the lucky last minute raid galloping blind down the road from capital two weeks after the last intel about the armies location.
Can we have a seperate v0n GoT moaning thread please? This is getting filled with crap
Agreed. I had hope when he said he was done, but apparently he's not.
Agreed. I had hope when he said he was done, but apparently he's not.
I think I understand his points, I just don't think they're worthy worrying about.
I've not seen any countering to any of my responses (Eurons fleet moving about etc), just a bit of scrambling to bring up other things they think are wrong (which genuinely aren't).
You were supposed to ask yourself how did Euron know of Unsullied and how did he know to rush his fleet to Casterly Rock with a few days delay. And what was presented to us, viewers, as a hint why he's suddenly on the other side of the continent.