I think my complaint about the timings really is that if you are going to make such a big deal of it being real time (which, at the time I recall they did) then you should put some effort into making it real time.

NLSS Child didn't even notice it was supposed to be real time and I didn't point it out so I think it is probably definitely one of those ideas that doesn't really translate well to the screen without surrounding hype explaining it.