Game of Thrones (Serie)

reddit schrieb:

As much as the "everybody has a jetpack" joke is overused, it does not change the fact that pacing is a very important element of a story to a lot of people. Yes, the show has a lot of stuff to cram into 10 episodes but that does not mean that the increasing use of sudden jumps in time is not a valid point to criticize. At this point, any character or army can just appear at any time at any place on Planetos because we no longer have a tight grip on time. We simply have no idea how the different narratives line up time wise. Yes, the books do it too to an extent, but when somebody surprisingly turns up somewhere it always feels like enough time has passed for them to get there and most of the time to get to witness the actual travel.

And for me, the absence of a good feeling for time, the absence of reliable pacing, makes the whole world that the show builds feel .... less rich? I don't know how to properly describes this. The world simply does not feel as fleshed out as it could be and more importantly, it does not fell as big, no matter how many times characters say it's this many miles from here to there. There is just a certain depth that is lost.
Now all of this does not mean that the show sucks, or the writers and directors are incompetent. Not at all. As the tweets say, they simply made the choice of putting the momentum and the amount of stuff that happens in one season (and in one action packed climactic episode) over the pacing, which I would place as an element of world building.

And for the majority of the show's watchers this choice seems to be the right one. This is what they want. And that is fine. I don't hate the show because it does it and I understand that choice. But for me and others this element of world building, or giving the world a more realistic feel to it, is simply more important. It I personally would prefer if more focus was put on pacing, even if it means to sacrifice some of the momentum and that not as much action and plot development can fit into a single episode. I loved the travel scenes and slower pace of earlier seasons.

But despite all of that, the producers choice to put their focus on other aspects does not mean that the current handling of pacing cannot be improved upon without diminishing the aspacts that the focus is on. It is not an easy thing to be sure. I don't know how to fix it and there are certainly limits as to what a TV show can do, pacing wise, in contrast to what a book can do. But for me and many others having a feeling for time is just to important to drop it to the extend the show has done recently. And that is why we voice our opinion. Not to bitch about it for bitching's sake (though there are certainly people who do this), but because it diminishes the quality of the show (great as it is) and because it is important to us.