Tangent

"'We're not going have any tangents. We're going to be concise and clear and quick and to the point and undeviating. Straight like an arrow.' - Alt Schwift X"

A tangent, as it relates to professional arrow fletcher and narrative train conductor Alt Schwift X, is something which never(debatable - discuss) occurs during the concise and professional academic analysis that is an episode of Game of Thrones Abridged.

Whether tangents are condoned or not is a hotly contested debate, with the inclusion of tangents at times both being repudiated by Alt Schwift X, or stated as being the purpose of the abridgement; to "make room for more important things like tangents about goats".

Analysis
Whatever the official status of tangents, their cumulative impact on length of each Abridged episode is noticeable. Research by Schwiftian scholars in the SchwiftySquwad indicate that the current rate of tangential diversion, we can expect each episode to reach a length of 133 minutes by the final chapter of A Clash of Kings (expected to be delivered in 2025), averaging 101 minutes of material per chapter more than the audiobook.