The ‘Game of Thrones’ pacing is completely messing with our heads

For about five minutes in 2011, I would have described Game of Thrones as boring.

At the end of those five minutes, a white walker decapitated a man and turned a child into an ice zombie, and the rest is history.

Since that first season, there was never a question of Game of Thrones being must-see TV, saturated with grand battles, bloody deaths, and all the premium cable sex. The current Season 7 contains fewer episodes, but most of which are more than an hour in length. These episodes should be dense with plot and character development, driving the story forward as much as or more than a normal 10-episode run would. Read more…

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