Game of Thrones - Take Your Time

"I was thinking a lot about Game of Thrones before this, probably in part because it's my only reference point for like fantasy epic that I cared about a lot," he says. "It's not so much a question of whether the goals have been defined, but whether you as a viewer feel like, I need some goals to get defined or else I don't care." The showrunners were concerned with filling up an hour of TV; they didn't have the budget and sometimes limitations are better for creativity than unlimited budgets.