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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9388261" data-attributes="member: 18">I'm confused here.You advocate for "show don't tell".Then you specifically demand telling. What?Further, tons of little explanations that literally only 1 in 10 or fewer members of the audience will ever care about aren't typically an asset to storytelling (even if they are an asset to nerd cred). Realistically, the audience splits here - the kind of nerds who will actually go "HUH" about a lightsaber cutting out will, in literally 80-90% of cases know exactly what cortosis is. The other, much larger portion of the audience won't, but they'll accept what's going on. So we basically have like, a handful people who might be big enough nerds to "need an explanation", but not big enough Star Wars nerds to know what cortosis is. And you're not even one of them!Stopping for "As you know Jim, cortosis weave shorts out lightsabers" in a truly brutal swordfight would be a hilarious misjudgement of pacing and tone.To be real, I don't object to dropping stuff in that does explain things where it would fit naturally and takes almost no time, I even praise it. But I don't think there was room for that here.Exactly. And what's really funny and dumb here is that if his bracer was something new, no-one would be expecting an explanation for it, nor would they be expecting the Jedi to comment on it.It's only because we're all nerds who know perfectly well what cortosis is that this is even being discussed.Almost certainly they will. There's nothing inconsistent or flawed or wrong about them not having a discussion of what it is during the middle of deadly and brutal battle. Clearly everyone then still alive in the latter part of the fight knew that he had some way to make lightsabers go out, and I'm not sure they were even entirely clear on what it was. Given how he was aggressively forcing his bracer into the way of the sabers (incredible balls on this guy), I'm not sure what they could even do about it - it's not like they've trained to deal with a material forgotten for a thousand years.Agree that this is good, that's some of the only actually-readable stuff from the old EU, which is mostly a disaster zone.</blockquote>

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