LINQ slow even before getting data? - entity-framework

Question

I have following query:
var sw = new Stopwatch();
sw.Start();
var model = new StatusModel();
IQueryable<StatusView> statusViewResult = db.StatusViewList;
statusViewResult = statusViewResult.Where(p =>
(query.ClustersSelected.Count == 0 || query.ClustersSelected.Contains(p.Cluster)) &&
(query.ParkNamesSelected.Count == 0 || query.ParkNamesSelected.Contains(p.ParkName)) &&
(query.TurbineNumbersSelected.Count == 0 || query.TurbineNumbersSelected.Contains(p.TurbineNumber)) &&
(query.ModelNamesSelected.Count == 0 || query.ModelNamesSelected.Contains(p.ModelName)) &&
(query.AlarmLevelSelected.Count == 0 || query.AlarmLevelSelected.Contains(p.AlarmLevel)) &&
(query.ParametersSelected.Count == 0 || query.ParametersSelected.Contains(p.Parameter)) &&
(query.TurbineTypesSelected.Count == 0 || query.TurbineTypesSelected.Contains(p.TurbineType)));
sw.Stop();
var d = sw.Elapsed.TotalMilliseconds;
So I am not doing any ToList() so I shouldn't be querying the database at this moment. However I takes around 2 seconds just for building this query - am I missing something here or is this expected?