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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6099067" data-attributes="member: 22779">Well, I've found it, so it wasn't that tough.Since in both examples I brought up, I had to slog through scenes I didn't want to and explicitly said that it was this slog that drained all the enjoyment out of things for me, I'm not really sure what to say here.  We didn't jump to the end city.  We didn't go straight to the Grell (and I KNOW I said that - talking about spending time hiring hirelings and whatnot).  Instead, we spent a significant amount of time on elements that I had no interest in.  And thus, it sucked out all the fun.Um, Star Wars starts with a fight.  Ships exploding, people dying and whatnot.  We get the next scene of the droids landing on Tantooine and guess what?  We don't spend any time on them trekking through the desert.  We go pretty much straight to the Jawas and getting picked up.  You can criticise Star Wars for a lot of stuff, but, lack of pacing?  But, then, you feel that even Star Wars is too fast.  To me, Star Wars is just about right.  It's high paced from the outset and doesn't really let up a whole lot for most of it.What we really don't have is a fifteen minute scene of the droids slogging through the desert, trying to keep sand out of their moving parts, suffering from exposure to heat and whatnot and having terrain crop up that forces them to go in a different direction.What we don't have is a fifteen minute scene dickering with Han Solo about hiring the Millenium Falcon.  It's about two minutes of back and forth between Han and Obi Wan.  The rest of the scene is either action (cutting off the guy's arm) or Greedo (another action scene).  To be honest, I've never seen it.  But, for my taste, if I have to go that long before a major plot reveal, I'd quit watching the show after the second episode.And, thus, the difference in tastes.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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