Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-70.164.250.74-20180322215425/@comment-2600:6C44:880:DD2:B1CD:A88E:3C4:CCA2-20180425110423

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: 1) Yes they should. The audience should not be told everything the characters are feeling just to make them understand, that's just lazy and bad writing.

2) A whole arc where they tell the audience everything and show almost nothing? That's just horrendous writing.

3) Not really a good argument though. Because then there's no point in talking about anything, because "for all we know next Volume makes it invalid". So in the end, in regards to discussion and theorizing, nobody cares about what next Volume might or might not do.

The most relevant thing I can recall is MK noting that they needed to give Ruby more focus. And that's only if I recalled correctly. 1) Not really, dude; it depends on context. Darth Vader, for instance, wouldn't work well with that kind of method because of the armor, helmet and suit - there's not a whole lot to "show" of him, so the method wouldn't really "tell" much of what he was actually thinking. It really depends on the character, atmosphere, situation and so-on - and in Ruby's case, it doesn't work because, as HeartshiningXX so elequantly put it, Summer's death messed her up so much that the only way she knows how to deal with it is to simply not acknowledge any of it lest it all flood out.

2) While I agree that Volume 4 as a whole didn't need as much talking, I disagree that "tell, don't show" is not good writing - again, it depends on the context. In fact, for Ruby's case in particular, it might very well be the only way for her character to progress - because like I said earlier, Ruby's clearly been established as a person who's never going to let her trauma show on her own; someone's gonna have to force it out of her the way Archer and Rin did for Shirou in Fate/Stay Night. And like with Shirou, Ruby's walls are going to have to be down brick by brick - that involves talking.

3) Not sure how that works when the next volume would be what proves what, if any, of these debates actually held merit to them. That seems like something to care about - or at least for me.