But when it comes to trying to decipher how quickly a raven flies in Westeros, Taylor thinks that fantasy fans should relax. “You’ve got a [dragon] that’s bigger than a [Boeing] 747 [plane] with seven people riding on its back, and you’re worried about the speed of a raven being believable?” he told
Newsweek. His attitude was slightly different with
Vulture, where he assured the interviewer: “Yes. We really do care about believability. There’s a tremendous amount of work that goes into making the dragons as believable as possible.” But he goes on to once again chuckle over the tinier details bugging a certain kind of
Game of Thrones fan:
It’s funny . . . I have no problem with the way the Night King throws his spear, and the fact that it does kill a dragon and knocks it out of the sky. I think that’s fine. I think haggling over that is ridiculous. I get people’s time-frame concerns—you know, ‘Gendry must be running really fast! The ravens must be flying really fast!’ [Laughs.] . . . When things like this come along, they’re plausible impossibilities. You’re hoping that even if something doesn’t quite add up, if it works within the story for us, it can carry the day.