Game Of Thrones: 12 Ups And 5 Downs From Season 7
2. The Logic Gaps
There is, of course, always a suspension of disbelief in a story about magic, dragons, and ice zombies. But Game of Thrones has always been incredibly tight with its own internal logic that it all worked cohesively.
Season 7, more than ever before, really pushed the limits of logic and took some major leaps with it. The most offending example was Beyond The Wall, where Gendry (the fastest runner, who can also see the colour of a bear's eyes in a storm from some distance) manages to navigate his way back to Eastwatch, the non-existent Maester sends a raven which flies to Dragonstone in record time, and then Dany comes and saves the day. Now, people on the internet have put a lot of time and effort into figuring out if this works or not, but Thrones should be tighter than that, and at least show the passage of time more effectively.
Even then, they could've asked Dany in the first place, and if they'd just stayed put then the White Walkers wouldn't have been able to bring the Wall down (and maybe it was all a plan by the Night King, but that still leaves gaps, such as it being Tyrion's idea).
Indeed, the teleporting around Westeros is something that's drawn a lot of criticism (it had some in Season 6 too, in fairness), and at first this was easy to ignore. They had to get on with the story, after all, but the more it happened the worse it became.
Character decisions didn't make much sense either. No one ever asked Bran anything (apart from in a deleted scene) even though he could've cleared a lot up; he conveniently hadn't seen a key scene with Rhaegar and Lyanna (which, sure, his abilities mean he has to look for something, but he was very focused on Jon's parentage); they, in turn, named a son Aegon, ignoring that there was another Aegon Targaryen alive (again, there are possible explanations out there, but nothing watertight); and capturing a wight was possibly the dumbest idea Tyrion's ever had, and somehow everyone went along with it and didn't ask any questions.
I don't think any of this makes the show bad, and especially in the heat of the moment it's heart-racing, thrilling stuff, but it has been and should still be better than that.