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 Originally Posted by boost
I disagree almost entirely.
Like anything, there are trade offs. The more expansive a piece of work, the less detailed it will be, assuming there are some sort of financial or time constraints. Expansive is not the negative opposite of detailed. Character development should be at a certain level for how expansive a narrative is, and I think GoT is well above that mark relative to its expansiveness. The Wire was less expansive, and BrBa quite a bit less... now that I think of it, BrBa has a fairly small scope for the sort of show it is. Yet that is not a drawback, because the character development is intensely nuanced.
I'm not sure you disagree with me because you said that expansiveness detracts from character development, which is what I said. It seems you think that it isn't a problem; whereas, I do.
GoT's char dev is superb given its expansiveness and time constraints, but it's still in a fundamentally less capable footing due to the expansiveness and time constraints. It's not a coincidence that in other shows, all the best characters get a ton of air time, yet no GoT chars are currently considered for GOAT. By season 3 of Wire, Omar was thought of as GOAT. Maybe it will just take a much longer time for GoT characters to reach the same level as those in other top shows.
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