Fire has never acted normally in this show. In Season 1, a normal coal and wood fire is able to melt gold in seconds. Later, when Dany builds Drogo's funeral pyre, she uses what looks like half a mile of wood and brush, and the fire goes through it all in mere seconds, when it normally should take at least a couple of minutes. In Season 7, the weird human flesh spiral used on poor Ned Umber is also ignited in seconds, when it should have taken longer than Drogo's pyre.
But when Melisandre burns Selyse's brother -- and later, Shireen -- the fire takes a couple of minutes to go through the pyres, as it normally does in the real world. And we haven't been told anything to make us believe that Melisandre's torch wasn't made from anything different than Dany's, Beric's, or Drogo's.
So given all those inconsistencies, I'm just going with this one. There are other issues I have with the plot -- like how did Arya manage to survive when LITERALLY everyone around her dies -- but this one I'm just going to roll with this one.
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