Never said he was gonna make Dragon armor out of Dragonglass.
The Scorpions can spin a full 360 degrees... and they tilt up & down. So it wouldn’t matter if she did a power dive from behind, they can still rotate & fire at her.
Actually, they best angle of attack is to come at Euron’s Ships very low & very fast.
If the Dragon is high up.... they can all fire at it very easily, but they all won’t be able to get off a ‘clean shot’ at the dragon, if it comes in real low. Because the ships would have to fire through one another to try to hit Drogon.
Dany can get them to create a crossfire if she flies in real low & real fast.
traveling over multiple episodes
True. And remember GRRM himself said a long time ago... “The characters always move at the speed which the plot requires.”
After season 5, the directors and actors we're ready to move on from the show. Also the budget for the show started to climb dramatically. So HBO started making plans to end the show. By the beginning of season 6. It was planned that the show would get 13 more episodes after season 6. 7 episodes for season 7, and 6 episodes for season 8.
Tyrion found out Cersei was pregnant when he had that meeting with her in Kings Landing.
Episode 1 Day 1 - Gendry arrives at Winterfell in season 8 episode 1.
Arya watches him ride in.
Bran tells Jon there’s no time for any ‘greetings’ because the Night King has Dany’s dragon.
Later that night, Tormund, Beric Dondarrion & Dolores Edd meet up at The Last Hearth & discover that the Army of the Dead has slaughtered everyone there. So they make a plan to ‘ride around’ the Army (who is marching slowly on foot) to get to Winterfell to warn Jon.
Meanwhile at the same time... Sam reveals the truth to Jon about his real parents.... while Bran sits outside “waiting for an old friend”.... who happens to be Jaime.
And Jaime arrives the very next morning & sees Bran STILL sitting in the very same spot that Sam saw him.
Episode 2 Day 2 - They bring Jaime in front of Dany & Sansa for quick trial. Lady Brienne vouches for Jaime and he is spared.
Tormund, Beric & Dolores Edd arrive at Winterfell and tell Jon the White Walkers will be here before dawn.
Yup, that’s 2 days.
True. And remember GRRM himself said a long time ago... “The characters always move at the speed which the plot requires.”
Because too many people were getting hung up on ‘how long it takes to do (a, b, or c).”
Traveling from the Wall to the Red Keep might take over a month. But they don’t have a whole month to tell the story & watch the plot unfold on tv. That’s why they cut many scenes out that would otherwise be shots of people getting on boats, or riding horses through the Forest.... or walking from sun up / til sun down.
So if the action climaxes in Kings Landing... they may show a different scene in a different location, somewhere else ...then they cut back to the relevant characters entering through the gates of Kings Landing.
So they don’t teleport.
On tv, they just cut out the middle parts (like long journeys back-n forth) which don’t move the plot forward.
The show runners made a choice to serve the characters (and fans) instead of the story. So you can't really call it a mistake. Its just a choice that many people would not have made.
I guess you imagine that soap operas are talked about as bastions of great writing and storytelling excellence
I just married my son's exwife who turns out to be my daughter from an old girlfriend who I thought died in a plane crash but survived with amnesia.
