Game of Thrones director David Nutter has “no idea” how to explain this Sand Snake-related plot hole
On Game of Thrones, few things will send fans into a rage more quickly than mentioning the Sand Snakes, the bastard daughters of fan-favorite Oberyn Martell (Pedro Pascal). These cartoonish characters were given undercooked lines, sketchy fight choreography, and in the season 6 premiere somehow warped across Westeros from Dorne to kill Trystane Martell while he was on a ship docked in King’s Landing.
The Huffington Post grilled Game of Thrones director David Nutter about that when it sat him down for an interview. How did Obara (Keisha Castle-Hughes) and Nymeria Sand (Jessica Henwick) make it from the Dornish dock where Jaime Lannister, Myrcella Baratheon and Trystane departed in the season 5 finale to King’s Landing in the season 6 premiere? We know, thanks to a prop letter provided by HBO, that Jaime planned to send Trystane back to Dorne rather than expose him to Cersei’s wrath — her daughter Myrcella died on the sea voyage over, killed by the vengeful Ellaria Sand, and Cersei wan’t likely to be feeling merciful toward anyone from Dorne after that. Surely he or someone else would have noticed if two Sand Snakes had found a way to sneak on board?
So what say you, Nutter? Huh? WHAT SAY YOU?
"Well, my friend, I’ll be as honest as I can be. I have no idea. I have no idea. They are Sand Snakes, by the way, so you never know, right? They’re sneaky snakes."
Sorry, David, but while I appreciate the terrible pun, it’s hard to forgive the show turning the Sand Snakes into live-action versions of Tom and Jerry.
Still, when asked if he’d change anything from his time as a director on Game of Thrones, Nutter responded said, “Not at all.”
"I’m so proud of everything I’ve done on the show, and it all married so well together with everything else they’ve done … I felt like the fifth Beatle sometimes with respect to the quality of the material. It was so damn good. And to get a chance to be involved in it ― nothing to change."
To be fair, Nutter didn’t actually direct the season 6 premiere. He directed the season 5 finale, which featured such barn-burning scenes as Cersei’s Walk of Shame, Arya’s execution of Meryn Trant and Jon Snow’s murder.
And also this bit:
Game of Thrones returns for its eighth and final season in April of 2019.
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