Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-93.172.97.165-20161023190354/@comment-4010415-20161024113507

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: SpiritedDreaming wrote:

It's a common trope in visual media to show something not actually related to the main story in order to set the scene nicely. The problem is, there's this thing called Law of Conservation of Detail. If something appears, if something is mentioned, it must surely have some importance.

Thus, if we were shown this random kid, it must have some importance. It wasn't the same as showing people walking on the street, or talking in a park, which are just setting the scene. ^^^ Exactly. Plus, when it comes to 3D animation, they had to take the time to build, texture, and rig everything that we saw in that scene. He has a special design, espeically his eyes, such pretty eyes.

Upon first watch, I took it more as a "Hey, meet this kid, he'll be important later, okay let's go see what RNJR's doing." It's a method to make his introduction much less jarring. Instead of flinging him at us at the moment that he becomes important or meets the protagonists, they ease us into it by having us meet him during his normal everyday life when he's not being quite so important. Personally, I think it's a good writing strategy.

But yeah, what gave me that impression was that I was sitting there through the whole scene like "Okay, so is something gonna happen with this kid? Are we gonna find out who he is? Why're we focusing on him? And now we're at RNJR. Okay, guess he'll be important later and that was just introducing us to him."