Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-94.8.221.186-20180402122306/@comment-4010415-20180402201702

In regards to the scenes with a lot of sitting around talking, one thing they really need to do is make more use of letting us hear what the characters are thinking and see their memories.

They attempted to make the conversation scenes more interesting to look at by changing camera angles and panning the camera, but that's really bland. This is animation, where they fully have the ability to let us see and hear a character's thoughts.

Think about this: Sometimes, in an anime, you'll have a scene where characters are talking or doing something, and then one of the characters notices or realizes something. Suddenly, we get a brief flashback with voiceover from that character's thoughts or dialogue. The flashback might even be something that we already saw from a previous episode or earlier in the episode, and it might show a different perspective or camera angle to emphasize that character's point of view. Why did the anime do that? Because it's a hell of a lot more interesting to watch than just having the camera show that character's face while they talk.

Weiss' story about how her mother turned to alcoholism would've been a lot more interesting to look at if they had shown us imagery of what she was talking about while she spoke, even if it was just static images or drawings with a flashback filter, rather than something animated.