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Originally Posted by Jason14h
Okay found some info on Pigeons! Let's assume Ravens fly the same speed!
In Great Britain distances of over 723 miles have been flown on the day, by pigeons flying home from Nantes in western France to Fraserburgh in Scotland. Released at 0600 hrs in the morning the birds have been timed in their lofts before 10.00 at night
So a Raven could make the trip in 3 days. Let's say a dragon can go at twice that speed with a Rider, They would have been stuck for ~ 5 days give or take.
They easily could have been sitting there waiting for 5 days. They just should have shown them at night for 30 seconds using the sword as heat and melting snow for water. Would have made way more sense.
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It actually would take at least several days for a lake that to freeze over to the point an army could walk on it.
The solution to the whole scene would have been to show several days passing for the group, have them struggling to stay warm, run out of food, etc...That would have actually been kind of neat.
Let's be honest though, the whole send your most important characters to bring back a zombie plot is pretty ridiculous. It was clearly just a plot device to create a confrontation with the NK and have a badass group of guys together. I actually found their banter in the beginning of the episode to be extremely entertaining, despite the fact that the makeup of the group is very bizarre for a mission like that. The King of the North (should Jon really be doing that at this time?), the former leader of the wildlings, a bunch of guys they picked up in prison (Hound and his entourage), and Gendry for some reason, who Jon just met and might be the heir to the Iron Throne. Badass but non-logical.
Seems like a mission more suited for a group of professional trackers. Also...horses, why don't they have horses? Benjen has been riding one for years there, so horses can survive there for a couple days.