They should resonate emotionally, first and foremost, and they should make sense from a dramatic perspective. That’s an accountant’s truth, and it’s a secondary concern when it comes to stories. I don’t need everything to be super accurate or tallied properly in a work of fiction lest it tar my enjoyment. Here’s the thing: I am not usually one for nitty gritty in my entertainment. This would be around the size of the Lannister or Tyrell forces - the largest in Westeros - at peak size. Then the manpower - 500 ships is at least 10,000 men, but probably closer to 30,000. It would take a decade, at the very least. Just the timber required - not only what they’re made of, but the fuel required to heat and bend the planks, to transport the materials, to get the support, to replace tools, to build storage sheds… Realistically, the Iron islands shouldn’t be able to support more than a dozen shipyards - these things are labour intensive and require specific skills, resources and infrastructure, especially before industrialisation. That is more shipyards than any pre-industrialised European power has ever had, even in the later Modern Era. Let’s also say it was a whole year, which is probably a good deal longer than when the order was actually given.Įven being as generous as we can possibly be, the Iron Islands would need to have some 120 shipyards to be able to build a fleet in that time, let alone the lack of resources. Let’s say Euron is bullshitting, and his 1000 ships is only 500 ships. Let’s just double that, because why not, and call it 4 ships per year per yard. Assuming that they cut corners here and there, and giving some allowances for scale, perhaps a yard could do 2 ships a year. I am far from the first person to point out some of the iffyness behind this hullaballoo, and at the risk of descending into a discussion of which of Scratchy’s ribs Itchy played on the xylophone, here’s Reddit user Roflcopter_Rego: An ocean going vessel of similar scale to the ones shown would take a European shipyard of the 13th-17th century around 1 year to build. Then he built many times more that amount, using resources that we cannot possibly believe that the Iron Islands have.
Well, I guess maybe Euron’s ninja ships took out the scouts under cover of magic-storm.Įuron had the best and fastest ships of his fleet stolen by Yara and Theon.
The first storm and the last,’ to his brother, just before he flings him onto the distant rocks below.Ģ) The sudden thunder and lightning that appears without warning just as his fleet ambushes Yara’s-who, presumably, sail the seas knowing that Euron is out there somewhere, driven wild by bloodlust, without any scout ships or lookouts.
#I HATE TO STUPID GAME TV#
This is about Euron.Įuron and his super stealth flame cannon ships that appear magically-like Ramsay Bolton and his ‘twenty good men’ in the midst of a heavily fortified encampment-next to a fleet of elite ships manned by the most experienced sailors in the world, right next to the target that they are seeking.Įuron and his, we are to assume, magical storm-bringing abilities, which allow his fleet to sneak up like so, and that are alluded to by just two things (in the TV show anyway I am not a book reader, though I do know of some of the Euron/Victarion stuff):ġ) His grand rope-bridge pronouncement of, ‘I am the storm. He was great in the political TV drama Borgen, as well as in the tense thriller A Hijacking. Balon was a knob, make no mistake about it, but a knob throwing another knob off a bridge does not a lesser knob make.īefore I go any further I should add that none of this (very mature, considered) rant is aimed at the man who portrays Euron. He was annoying last season, when he turned up out of nowhere in the black of night on the Iron Islands and threw his brother off a bridge. We’re only two episodes into Game of Thrones’ seventh season, and already Euron Greyjoy is whipping up my ire to the point of distraction. I really can’t remember the last time I hated a character this much.
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