10 Problems With Game Of Thrones Nobody Wants To Admit

7. The Pacing Sucks

George RR Martin is a gifted author in many ways. The fictional continents of Westeros and Essos are very real on paper, and the show brings them to life in a really cool way. Most of the characters he creates are more complex than your average fantasy heroes and villains, which are carried over (for the most part) to the screen. Much of the plotting, backstabbing, and intrigue is top-notch. His pacing, meanwhile, sucks. It sucks something hard. His sprawling, epic world means that the focus has to switch fairly regularly between the principal cast, and the more characters that are brought into the fold, the more time has to be split up. Which means that for long spaces of time, nothing really happens. With the Game Of Thrones TV show, that's gotten even worse in the fourth season, which tries to bide time between Martin writing books by adapting half of A Storm of Swords, and some elements from A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons. Which makes everything take so long and is so boring.