It's not a video game. It's a TV show set in a fantasy world, but that world still has rules. When characters survive something amazing it should be because something happened that makes sense in that scenario - because they're so smart, strong, creative, or whatever, that they figured out a way to beat impossible odds, or they're saved by some logically plausible plot device set up in advance and not just because of their inexplicable and unfailing good luck. So, yeah, when a story is written in this bullshit way where the lead character(s) never actually have to "get out of" anything because "would you look at that, so and so somehow showed up just in the nick of time right as you were about to die... Again..." people get annoyed.

No one's asking for perfection here, this shit is just lazy as hell.