Yeah... contrary to that very peculiar digression on TV pilots, in fact one of the things you learn if you write for TV is how to get a story going very quickly. (Which tends to give me the opposite problem, which is trying to cram 300 pages of story into 150 and having moments go by too quickly, as opposed to the more common one of spending 148 pages slowly and carefully setting everything up, and then beginning the actual plot two pages before the end of the first volume.)