Game Of Thrones: 10 Continuity Errors Fans Probably Didn’t Notice

Game of Thrones might have been one of the best television shows ever in modern history (until the 8th season), but it was never without its faults. After all, it was also one of the most ambitious projects in television, meaning the pressure was enough to wrack some nerves and wrack it did; there have been plenty of story and plot oversights made by the showrunners.

These come in the form of continuity errors which have greatly affected how the viewers processed the fantasy world’s rules and qualities. One of the most obvious among them was the notorious irrelevance of time and space in Westeros. Many more kept popping up as the show neared its end and there were definitely some less noticeable continuity errors along with the obvious ones.

10 KING’S LANDING’S CHANGING GEOGRAPHY

It has been established in the earlier seasons of the show that King’s Landing was a coastal city that was bordered inland by hills, green mountains, and lush forests. Such was the case whenever someone of worth entered the capital of the Seven Kingdoms.

Yet, in the 8th season of Game of Thrones, the other end of King’s Landing somehow changed into a barren desert, which is the complete opposite of mountainous and hilly green forests. This became apparent during the Daenerys’ final siege of King’s Landing. You can even see some mountains that have magically disappeared, perhaps Cersei’s wildfire bombs were too strong and wiped them off? We’ll never know.

9 WINTER HASN’T COME YET

Speaking of changing geographies, King’s Landing should have looked a lot different in Season 8. During the end of Season 7, we clearly see Jaime Lannister leaving King’s Landing. Immediately after reaching the outskirts of the city, Jaime experiences the first drop of snow followed by a light cascade as he rides away into the grey landscape, signaling the start of winter.

Then we arrive at Season 8 where the snow in King’s Landing was nowhere to be seen. In fact, the whole damn place looked even sunnier than ever with a desert outskirts to boot. By the show’s rules, King’s Landing really should have been covered by snow come Season 8 instead of just ash and dragon fire.

8 MELISANDRE’S NECKLACE

Moving on to character trinkets involved in continuity errors, Melisandre’s necklace is one huge mistake that had quite a big implication. It was clear during her suicide in Season 8 that it was her necklace the maintains her youth and life, she even took it off when she killed herself.

However, in Season 4, we can see Melisandre (and more) as clear as day not wearing her necklace while taking a bath. This was during the scene where Selyse Baratheon talked to her. It might have been a costume fault, but it’s way too significant for that mistake.

7 EURON’S NOT-SO-MUTE MEN

It was explicitly stated both in the show and in the books that Euron Greyjoy’s men are all mute since he cuts out all their tongues before recruiting them. Apparently, he does this so that none among his crew can challenge him or initiate a mutiny. You can even see them ripping out the tongues of their victims during the surprise battle with Yara’s fleet so they can replace the fallen crew members.

In fact, he even says to Yara that the reason he keeps her alive after taking her hostage is that there’s no one to talk to in his ship since everyone’s a mute (and who’s fault was that, we wonder?). Fast forward to Season 8 (again), and somehow, Euron’s crew were shouting “Turn around” and many other screams of panic as Danaerys’ atop Drogon barbecued their fleet.

6 WHY IS THERE STILL A NIGHT’S WATCH?

When Game of Thrones finally ended, everyone got a conclusive ending regardless of how satisfactory they are or how much they make sense. Apart from Bran being chosen to be king, another questionable fate was Jon Snow being sentenced to the Night’s Watch.

The problem is, the Night’s Watch simply has no purpose whatsoever since the peace was bartered with the Wildlings and because the Night King and the White Walkers have already been defeated. Jon was sent there as punishment for killing Daenerys, meaning the Night’s Watch is still taken seriously at that point to honor Grey Worm’s call for justice… unless they all made a fool out of Grey Worm just to make him leave.

5 UNLIMITED DOTHRAKI

The Dothraki were an instrumental part of Daenery’s conquest since they were her original army. Too bad they were all wiped out during the Battle for Winterfell against the Night King after that incredibly blunderous and shortsighted charge to certain death against unknown enemies (they weren’t the brightest fighters, excuse them).

After that, Grey Worm even explicitly states to Daenerys that all of her Dothraki riders were gone. Somehow though, Daenerys was able to get a fresh new batch of Dothraki riders for her siege against King’s Landing. You can even see them raiding and pillaging the streets of the city; it’s as if the King’s Landing siege was shot before the Battle for Winterfell and they didn’t want to waste good Dothraki footage.

4 HOW STRONG ARE THE WIGHTS, REALLY?

At first glance, wights, the undead minions of White Walkers, look a lot less meaty than zombies. They’re a lot more rotten and some are just practically bones. When Sandor Clegane a.k.a. The Hound even brought one in a box in Season 7, it struggled to break free from both the wooden crate and the chain around its neck.

Fast forward to Season 8 and it seems that the wights which the Night King resurrected from the Crypts of Winterfell are a lot stronger– at least strong enough to destroy solid stone coffins and crypts. There might have some magical intensity at play here; maybe because they were newly resurrected or because they were near their White Walkers, but if that’s the case, they might as well be able to claw out or gradually destroy castle walls, making the Battle for Winterfell pointless.

3 JAIME’S STORY ABOUT KILLING HIS COUSIN

Again in Season 8, Jaime Lannister regales Brienne of his strangling his cousin (Alton Lannister) to death, while she was trying to convince Jaime that he’s a good man. Regardless of how good of a man he is, his memory about his kills is quite bad.

Back in Season 2, you’ll apparently see Jaime’s manner of killing Alton. He was tied up with Alton and in order to escape, Jaime headbutts and clobbers his own cousin with his shackles causing him to convulse. Jaime then kills the guard that checked up on Alton. One doesn’t simply forget how he killed his own cousin, especially when he could have just told Alton to feign death instead.

2 TELEPORTING SAND SNAKES

There’s no doubt that Ellaraa Sand’s Sand Snakes are formidable and treacherous warriors and assassins. They were even instrumental in Ellaria’s coup for the Martell throne and for control of the whole of Dorne. Still, deadly as the Sand Snakes might be, it’s safe to assume they have no teleportation powers.

As it is, it appears they teleported into Trystane Martell’s ship in Season 6 in order to kill him. Previously before that, the two of them who visibly killed Trystane watched his ship sail quite far away into the horizon. They’d need a speed boat to be able to catch up with the ship in order to kill Trystane… or maybe they swam like snakes to get there?

1 BRONN AND JAIME MIGHT BE FISH PEOPLE

Speaking of impossible swimming feats, Bronn and Jaime Lannister are up for a gold medal. Back in Season 7, Jaime’s Highgarden loot caravan was demolished by Daenerys’ army and dragon during which Jaime, in heavy full plate armor, was knocked off his horse into a calm river by Bronn after he failed to kill Daenerys.

The episode after that shows both Bronn and Jaime surfacing from the river hundreds of meters away from where Jaime sunk and where Daenerys’ army still is. Logically, that would mean Bronn, with his superhuman gills and fish muscles, was able to yank out Jaime (in full armor) and swim several hundred meters away to safety before surfacing. That, or let’s chalk it up to plot armor, lazy scripts, and rushed schedules.

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