"Just speed up the edit" is the lie editors tell themselves to avoid fixing the script.

"Just speed up the edit" is the lie editors tell themselves to avoid fixing the script.

Fast pacing on a boring point doesn't make it interesting — it makes it a boring point delivered quickly. Retention dies from content, not tempo.

— You can't cut your way out of having nothing to say.
— Pace amplifies a good idea; it can't manufacture one.

Speed is a multiplier of zero is still zero. Fight me?