One thing that pissed me off on the new episode was that lord Glover withdrawing his support to Jon Snow's war effort. It's pretty stupid to think he -Glover- doesn't understand the scope or the magnitude of what's happening, I mean even if you don't believe Jon Snow's stories about the white walkers, everybody knows that the thousand year old structure on the edge of the world has been destroyed and whoever destroyed it, be it white walkers or the Backstreet Boys, are marching south with a huge army. And you're gonna wait it out in your castle cause you think Jon Snow is a wimp for bending the knee to the Targaryan queen, good plan boss.
I'm not gonna defend what probably won't enter any "100 greatest plot points" list, but history has taught us that people have definitively the ability to fail to see the bigger picture and care only about their interests.
What would happen if forest zombies would stir in Amazonia, or desert zombie would stir in Sahara, and to prevent for more zombies to be created would mean allow a shitload of mexicans into the USA, or a shitload of North African people into Europe? In the show Jon Snow got killed for it, in our world I don't think it would go any better and if the US president (not the current one surely
) would say that millions of mexicans should be allowed into the US least they all become zombies, you can be sure someone would try to bomb the White House the next day.
To be more realistic, there could be shown on TV the most gigantic iceberg ever getting detached from the North Pole, and still not all people would get that it means that many coastal towns will be flooded by the rising seas. Again - I agree with you that at least people in the North should, by now get it. But I can roll with the "no, they still don't get it".
The weirdness probably comes from a very underwhelming scene with Bran, when he tells the MOST DEVASTING NEWS EVER IN THE LAST 8000 YEARS OF WESTEROS, namely "The Wall has fallen thanks to a goddamn undead ice dragon", and people are "whopsies". No reaction from Dany who is an unwilling and direct responsable for this, no "OMFG" from Jon, everyone just rolls with it like a mild inconvenience and then next scene they're riding dragons and flirting or whatever.
I mean, when a weird Bran tells you that you either don't believe him, or ask him how he knows, and then he tells you that when you were 10 you pissed in your sister's bed out of spite and realize "oh shit, he really sees all", and then you should go in ULTRA PANICK MODE. Weird that it hasn't happened.