Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-4091815-20140701192156/@comment-4091815-20140714151030

All you do is poke at it - I've never read a single positive post from you about this show.

That aside - South Park destroyed Game of Thrones on this very point - over promising the audience and not delivering.

I'm not going to get into Lord of the Rings but the holes are all over the place in both the books and the movies.

World Building should never get in the way of a good story. You don't build the world and then tell the tale.

The world comes out of the story and changes to fit the needs of the narrative.

As to what brain addled Derek knew or didn't know - is not in evidence. You have to make a leap to get to your conclusion.