Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4141313-20180428014423

Those of us that have watched all Five Volumes of the series know that RWBY has a big issue involving the "Show Don't Tell" rule. Mainly, it doesn't follow it. This in itself is complicated as there have been cases where they tried to show and not tell, but it just confused the fans and required they straight up tell what was happening.

Well, one of RT's newest Animated series, The Nomad Of Nowhere, may be evidence that they are getting better.

Spoilers for Episode 6 of Nomad by the way.

So, in the Mid-season Finale of NoN, Nomad finds himself in an old castle where he takes a nap while waiting out the sandstorm. As he's sleeping, he receives visions of a Man conquering a castle, obtaining a magic crown, being a generous ruler, lose his magic, accidentally gain more by devouring other magic users, be corrupted by the crown, and become a tyrant known as El Rey. None of the visions have any dialouge whatsoever, and the only thing that could count as being "Told" is a relatively minor piece, that his Four Aids are the Four Governors of Nowhere, and even then they aren't explicitely cited as being them. They purely showed us the backstory of the believed to be Main Antagonist of the show, and didn't say anything about it.

Could this be a sign that they are getting better at the Show Don't Tell rule? 