Spoilers for Game of Thrones Season 7, Episode 6, `Beyond the Wall,` belowThings are not working out for our heroes on Game of Thrones, as Season 7, Episode 6, `Beyond the Wall,` saw Jon, Dany, Sansa, and Arya all in precarious positions, teetering on the brink of total failure and major losses. It`s just too bad so much of it barely makes sense.The show has had trouble getting the details of timing, place, and motivations right ever since its first forays beyond the books on which it used to be based. Remember when Jon took on the mutineers at Craster`s keep back in season 4, and not one person present mentioned that they`d recently had three children and a simple giant as house guests? That event, which had no analog in the source material, was the first of Game of Thrones` many major logical missteps. And it just peaked in `Beyond the Wall.`Forget, for a second, the absurdly convenient series of coincidences that somehow brought Jon Snow, Gendry, Jorah Mormont, the Hound, Beric Dondarrion, Thoros, and Davos together for one glorious suicide mission. The real problem is that their quest makes no sense, which they would have realized if the show had time for them to actually stop and think about anything.Sure, it`s easy to say in the bloody aftermath: Dany just lost a dragon, a devastating blow to the forces of life, and for what? So Jon could capture a wight and bring it King`s Landing, to get Cersei on their side? But they should have realized even in the thick of it: There`s truly no universe in which Cersei would ever team up with her Targaryen and Stark enemies.Facts and evidence have no effect on Cersei`s actions or positions. If she`s going to remain at all consistent as a character, she`ll come up with some justification for dismissing what`s before her eyes, should the captured wight ever actually reach her. The plan was hopeless to begin with, as several of those involved--chiefly Tyrion--should have been prescient enough to realize.The second massive ...
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