Game of Thrones’ latest episode left several important things offscreen

Spoilers ahead for Game of Thrones season 8, episode 4, “The Last of the Starks.”
One of the bigger complaints levied at the past few seasons of Game of Thrones is that time and space have stopped meaning anything to the characters. The show used to spend multi-episode runs moving characters around the breadth of the Seven Kingdoms, but in season 7, the showrunners started accelerating the action by having Euron’s fleet magically teleport from one Westeros coast to another in