The time cuts in “Beyond the Wall” are noticeable enough that they definitively answer the question of whether GOT’s timeline makes any sense. There is a bounty of speculation, information, and discussion waiting if you want to dive into it. The end of season six sparked a wave of discussions on this point, to the tune of “wait, how much time has passed so far on this show?” and “why would you want to watch Arya on a boat for four episodes?” We can look up maps of where all the characters have been we can ponder distances traveled. Martin himself has said that the characters’ stories don’t need to take place in lock step with one another, so why not cut straight to the fun parts where everyone meets up and the story actually happens?Īnd yet, there’s a similarly long history of Game of Thrones fans caring a great deal about things like distances and travel speeds and whether the chronology makes sense. These events are obviously impossible, but it’s also hard to blame the show for deploying them. We’ve seen episodes that find Jaime Lannister instantly leaping from King’s Landing to Highgarden, and Jon bopping around between Winterfell and Dragonstone like they’re next-door neighbors, as armies depart and arrive at their destinations with remarkable alacrity. Game of Thrones has a long history of skipping the boring bits, and season seven leans into this tendency more than ever. Here Are a Bunch of GIFs of Jon and Daenerys Staring at Each Other Or you could just say, “It’s a story! None of it’s real, but it sure was cool when the dragons showed up!” Related Stories You could also throw up your hands, concluding that it’s impossible and the story is now somehow broken. You could strain for explanations to justify how “Beyond the Wall” makes sense, concluding that a raven can fly 1,000 miles in a single night.
Was it a few hours? A day? Do we even know for sure if there are 24 hours in a Westerosi day? And who knows how long Jon and his men were huddled together on that ice island. We can’t even begin to guess how fast a dragon can travel. The ravens aren’t necessarily real-world birds, so who knows how fast they can fly. The distance from Eastwatch to Dragonstone is very fuzzy. You can do the math any way you want, but we have almost no idea how much time passes between these scenes. Daenerys gets the raven’s message sometime during the day, and then hops on a dragon and flies up North to save Jon and his men. The raven is dispatched and flies nearly half the length of Westeros down to Dragonstone. Gendry sprints off, arriving back at Eastwatch sometime during the night.
In “Beyond the Wall,” Jon realizes his merry band of wight hunters are in the midst of an ambush, so he orders Gendry to run back to the Wall and send a raven to Dany.
How long was Jon Snow waiting for Daenerys?ĭoes it matter that the Game of Thrones timeline makes absolutely no sense? We’re long past the point of arguing that time within the world of the show actually works, but if you are a person who cares about this sort of thing - if a disregard for how fast fictional bodies could reasonably move around a fictional map was ever going to disrupt your ability to enjoy dragon battles - then Sunday’s episode is the one that finally tipped you over the edge.
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