Game of Thrones' final season won't be sped up like Season 7

Entertainment Weekly

“We made a choice to ‘just get on with it’ last season,” co-executive producer Bryan Cogman says of complaints that last season moved too fast. His fellow writer Dave Hill says Season 8 will run at normal speed. “You obviously don’t want any criticism of any kind,” Hill tells EW. “But with all the things we were balancing to set things up for season 8, sometimes we had to speed things up within episodes. We had a lot of time cuts the vast majority of viewers didn’t catch. We could have a (title card) on there saying ‘Three Weeks Later,’ but we did not. Sometimes when moving pieces around you’re going to cheat a little bit. (For season 8), we tried to keep more of the time logic rather than jet packs.”