

That could even have been his impetus for taunting the wights with rocks and ultimately setting off the major battle. As one of my colleagues pointed out, the Hound easily could've made a throwaway comment about the amount of time they were stranded on the lake. It shouldn't have to be a fan's job to explain away a show's plot holes. Assuming an average temperature of 10 ☏ (they're not that far north) the ice would be growing at 1.5 inches per day. Considering that the ice had to support a huge hoard of wights, the ice would have to be around 8 inches thick. This makes sense considering that they had to wait for the ice to freeze over the lake again.


So the overall time it takes Danny to get to Jon, is about 5 days. So that's about a 12-hour flight straight to Snow Team 6. So for the sake of argument let's say they top out with a rider at about 175 mph. Dragons on the other hand, I couldn't find much info about how fast they can go. So let's say it takes the raven 4 days to get to Dragonstone. From Winterfell to King's Landing is about A Thousand Miles according to Cersei in S5E6, so it would be about the same maybe a little more from Winterfell to Dragonstone. The trip from Castle black to Winterfell is about 600 miles (a little farther from East watch), a raven going full speed (28mph) could probably make that trip in a little over a day. I'm going to assume since they were looking for a lone White that they were not going in a straight line from East watch, they were probably going back and forth in a zigzag (rip rickon) so Gendry running at full speed back to the wall, let's say that took about 4 hours. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play Regarding Gendry, The Raven, and the timing of it all, it makes sense.
