--- title: Game of Thrones Director Says Ravens Can Fly Very Fast description: In the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones, a raven's quick speed may have been the key to saving Jon Snow and others beyond the Wall. canonical: https://time.com/4910483/game-of-thrones-timeline-ravens/ author: Jennifer Calfas article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-22T11:58:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T17:06:35.627Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'Game of Thrones' Director: Don't Worry About Those Timeline Issues og:description: Some viewers have criticized the show this season for its unrealistic timing og:url: https://time.com/4910483/game-of-thrones-timeline-ravens/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt156d173bbdb6b698/6988da030a4a2244319cf834/game-of-thrones-beyond-the-wall-08.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: game-of-thrones-beyond-the-wall--08 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Game of Thrones' Director: Don't Worry About Those Timeline Issues twitter:description: Some viewers have criticized the show this season for its unrealistic timing twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt156d173bbdb6b698/6988da030a4a2244319cf834/game-of-thrones-beyond-the-wall-08.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # A _Game of Thrones_ Director Says You Shouldn't Worry About Those Timeline Issues by [Jennifer Calfas](https://time.com/author/jennifer-calfas/) ## Jennifer Calfas Aug 22, 2017 11:58 AM UTC  Helen Sloan—HBO by [Jennifer Calfas](https://time.com/author/jennifer-calfas/) ## Jennifer Calfas Aug 22, 2017 11:58 AM UTC **Warning:** This post contains spoilers for season seven of [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/game-of-thrones-2017/). In Sunday’s [penultimate episode](http://time.com/4905892/game-of-thrones-daenerys-targaryen-kids-jon-snow/) of the seventh season of [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/game-of-thrones-2017/), Jon Snow and his crew of some of Westeros’ best fighters were surely doomed before [Daenerys Targaryen and her dragons](http://time.com/4905542/game-of-thrones-ice-dragon-viserion/) saved them. While _Thrones_ fans didn’t take issue with the ridiculousness of Jon Snow’s mission to capture a wight from an army of White Walkers with little protection, they were quick to criticize the time lapse seen in the episode. Most notably, they criticized the speed in which a raven flew south to Dragonstone to request Daenerys’ help after Gendry, Robert Baratheon’s bastard son, somehow ran back to Eastwatch with seemingly no issue. As a show where massive dragons fly, Faceless Men dwell and Bran Stark has become an all-knowing Three-Eyed Raven, the director of the episode, “Beyond the Wall,” [told the New York _Times_](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/arts/television/alan-taylor-director-game-of-thrones.html) that being concerned about the speed of a raven should not be a priority. “I’ve only looked at one review online, and it was very much concerned with the speed of the ravens,” Alan Taylor told the _Times_. “I thought, that’s funny – you don’t seem troubled by the lizard as big as a 747, but you’re really concerned about the speed of a raven.” “But that said, Gendry’s a really great runner,” Taylor added. “Ravens go super fast. And who’s to say how much time passes on that island, since it’s always sort of an eternal twilight north of the Wall? With those three ideas in mind, I think we can lay the timing concerns to rest.” The finale of _Game of Thrones_‘ seventh season airs Aug. 27 at 9 p.m. on HBO. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4910483/game-of-thrones-timeline-ravens/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4910483/game-of-thrones-timeline-ravens/"},"headline":"A Game of Thrones Director Says You Shouldn't Worry About Those Timeline Issues","datePublished":"2017-08-22T11:58:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T17:06:35.627Z","description":"Some viewers have criticized the show this season for its unrealistic timing","url":"https://time.com/4910483/game-of-thrones-timeline-ravens/","keywords":["Television","game of thrones","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt156d173bbdb6b698/6988da030a4a2244319cf834/game-of-thrones-beyond-the-wall-08.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jennifer Calfas","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jennifer-calfas/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt156d173bbdb6b698/6988da030a4a2244319cf834/game-of-thrones-beyond-the-wall-08.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"game-of-thrones-beyond-the-wall--08","caption":"","creditText":"Helen Sloan—HBO","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/television/","name":"Television"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4910483/game-of-thrones-timeline-ravens/","name":"A Game of Thrones Director Says You Shouldn't Worry About Those Timeline Issues"}}]}] ```