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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 7604347" data-attributes="member: 6696971"><p>See, this is interesting to me (and one of the reasons I brought up gaming as a corollary or coincidental reference-point if you'd like).</p><p></p><p>I've enjoyed the ramped-up pacing. If there is one complaint I've had about Game of Thrones and other modern media (Avengers Endgame, The Last Jedi, and Black Panther come to mind), its a combination of pacing and (mostly related) poor cutting (including adjacent scenes that were tonally jarring or momentum damaging or overwhelmingly gratuitous setting/character tourism).</p><p></p><p>"Star Wars Was Saved in the Edit" is a good documentary for any fantasy-based media specifically (and plenty of other non-fantasy-based media). </p><p></p><p>Something like "There Will Be Blood" or "The Murder of the Outlaw Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford" is a different animal. I suppose if people feel like Thrones is, or should be, closer to either of these than the inevitable Grim to High Fantasy drift inherent to its tropes...then, personally, the complaint would carry more weight with me.</p><p></p><p>I don't know where I'd put McCarthy's No Country For Old Men or The Road on that continuum. Given his brilliant, minimalist prose and the potency of every sentence, I feel it is an amazing combination of the heft and weight of the latter with the pacing and organization of the former. But Thrones is not that (and could never hope to achieve it because GRRM is more King than McCarthy). </p><p></p><p>Coming back full circle to my initial statement, my gaming preferences follows suit; economy of time and action with a ceaseless deluge of hard choices + an onslaught of conflict as it snowballs then crescendos into climax and denouement...no "wasted" motion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 7604347, member: 6696971"] See, this is interesting to me (and one of the reasons I brought up gaming as a corollary or coincidental reference-point if you'd like). I've enjoyed the ramped-up pacing. If there is one complaint I've had about Game of Thrones and other modern media (Avengers Endgame, The Last Jedi, and Black Panther come to mind), its a combination of pacing and (mostly related) poor cutting (including adjacent scenes that were tonally jarring or momentum damaging or overwhelmingly gratuitous setting/character tourism). "Star Wars Was Saved in the Edit" is a good documentary for any fantasy-based media specifically (and plenty of other non-fantasy-based media). Something like "There Will Be Blood" or "The Murder of the Outlaw Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford" is a different animal. I suppose if people feel like Thrones is, or should be, closer to either of these than the inevitable Grim to High Fantasy drift inherent to its tropes...then, personally, the complaint would carry more weight with me. I don't know where I'd put McCarthy's No Country For Old Men or The Road on that continuum. Given his brilliant, minimalist prose and the potency of every sentence, I feel it is an amazing combination of the heft and weight of the latter with the pacing and organization of the former. But Thrones is not that (and could never hope to achieve it because GRRM is more King than McCarthy). Coming back full circle to my initial statement, my gaming preferences follows suit; economy of time and action with a ceaseless deluge of hard choices + an onslaught of conflict as it snowballs then crescendos into climax and denouement...no "wasted" motion. [/QUOTE]
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