The director of the latest episode of Game of Thrones has responded to criticism over having characters travel huge distances in seemingly very short periods of time.
Alan Taylor has candidly admitted there was "some effort to fudge the timeline" and that he was "deliberately hazy about how much time is passing", hoping viewers would then accept "plausible impossibilities".
Spoilers for Game of Thrones S07E06 follow.
The sixth episode of Game of Thrones season seven, entitled 'Beyond the Wall', featured Gendry running from Jon Snow's band of heroes north of the Wall, sending a raven from Eastwatch to Dragonstone, then Daenerys flying all the way to where he left his mates.
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It's a huge distance to cover and some critics online have slammed the short amount of time it appeared to happen in.
"I think we were straining plausibility a little bit, but I hope the story's momentum carries over some of that stuff," Taylor told Variety.
"We tried to hedge it a little bit with the eternal twilight up there north of the Wall. I think there was some effort to fudge the timeline a little bit by not declaring exactly how long we were there."
Taylor added that it's "cool" that fans of the show are scrutinising it so thoroughly.
"We did a few things, like getting deliberately hazy about how much time is passing, because it's so dark in the frozen lake and you don't know how many days or nights you may have witnessed. We tried to make it a little ambiguous and give it some wiggle room on that end," Taylor told The Hollywood Reporter.
"We were aware that we were asking for people's suspended disbelief - plausible impossibilities is what you're aiming for... I'm sure [showrunners] David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] have some idea that it's logistically possible, but for some people, it was a strain to believe all of that."
The final episode of Game of Thrones season seven is broadcast in New Zealand on Monday, August 28.
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