12/14/2023 0 Comments Game of thrones time passedThink back to the first season of Game of Thrones (which you could still make an argument for as the show’s best). The deeper we get into a story, the less patience we have for fat Jon stands stoically, remembering the boat trip we’ll never get to see. This could be read as a complaint - and I do wish the show was slightly more transparent about how much time is passing - but at the same time, this is probably inevitable. At times, it seems like the characters have conversations, make decisions, then board Elon Musk’s proposed Hyperloop to travel between sections of Westeros over a matter of minutes. We might send Jon off to Dragonstone via ship in one scene, then pick up with him arriving in the next episode, but there’s little sense of how the journey weighed on him or changed his relationships with his fellow travelers. The effect of this elision of time is that the characters seem to be in stasis between their scenes. And it’s only getting more drastic in season seven: Conservatively, several months have passed across the first three episodes, but we’ve seen only a few snippets of moments across those several months. Episodes will crosscut between events that have to be taking place weeks or months apart, as when a relatively compressed story in Dorne back in season five was placed opposite far more sprawling narratives elsewhere. It’s had the curious effect of making the show seem increasingly unmoored from the passage of time. Game of Thrones season 7: news and episode reviews
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