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Originally Posted by Azure
What about a 30 second conversation between a couple guys on the Ironborn side about a potential problem seeing through the fog? Something like that could have made a big difference in developing the scene a lot more.
I agree a lot of stuff isn't practical. Just strange though that a show that spent so much time on dialogue now seems to want to go in a different direction.
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Being passed GRRM's books and needing to wrap up in a dozen episodes has a lot to do with that I think. They don't have concrete source material to refer to for the current events. Sounds like GRRM is guiding them to the same planned ending as his series, but they're free reigning a lot of the smaller things now. And the lack of attention to detail in terms of plot developments is showing, alike a lot of shows that don't have source material that addresses all the minor things. Show writing can sure be lazy when needing to progress a plot in a timely manner.
It's too bad. GOT deserved better for how it set up the first number of seasons. Now it has to be put on fast forward and cut out all the little bits that were once there to help fill in the gaps. And we have less brilliant lines and moments because they weren't written out yet. And now we're left with a lot more whys and hows because they don't have the time to walk us through the details. But they're still doing a pretty admirable job given that they no longer have a book to pull out and refer to to really nail down a scene any more.