During The War Sequence, well, there's a war going on. This means that a lot of people are eagerly going at it at once -- something that is extraordinarily difficult to film in any satisfactory manner. There's just so much going on at any given moment, and the reader or viewer or player can only see a small part of the action. There's also the fact that many stories with such a sequence are essentially heroic stories -- the dehumanization and intermittent back-and-forth of a battle doesn't really fit so well into the theme of such a tale. Examples of Pendulum War include: