Building upto it.
This can become a way of stalling. A way of stretching things until you come to the point.
Some movies do that. Most series do that.
But the best ones don't. The new Tom Cruise movie Digger throws us into the deep end of the pool in scene one. And never relents.
Same with Breaking Bad. And The Godfather. And all the classics.
What are you building upto? What if you directly take us there?
What are you afraid of?