The erratic timeline, in addition to contributing towards the disorientation of teleportation, also means that quite frequently characters end up off screen for far longer than their journeys should take. It makes as much sense as anything else.) (I’m personally re-considering the crack theory that Varys is a Faceless Man, or at least a Merman. But as the show progresses, the timeline gets increasingly more erratic, culminating in Varys popping between Dorne and Mereen in less than ten minutes in the Season 6 finale. Season 1, which closely tracks to the books, does a fairly good job of this.
We want to see evidence of internal logic, such as consistent distances between locations, and stories that operate within those constraints. What we want is a sense that time is indeed passing beyond the three minutes of screentime we get with these characters each episode. Certainly no one wants to see a montage of Littlefinger’s travels. Time should serve the story, not the other way around. GRRM himself famously said that his characters travel at the speed of plot, and audiences aren’t bothered if they see multiple scenes that take place within a short period of time while elsewhere the story moves more quickly. You can do a certain amount of hand-waving at time in a story. I’m sure it will be no surprise to regular readers here that Game of Thrones does not. Even time travel stories (which, Bran crack theories aside, this is not) take care to follow this rule. Time is one of those things that you just can’t get away with ignoring in a story, because things happening in order is literally the lowest bar to cross when it comes to storytelling. Here at The Fandomentals we like to joke about Littlefinger’s teleporter, or about Gilly’s baby who never seems to grow.
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