The combat scenes, though boisterous and brutal, are no more coherent than the story, which requires almost as much exposition as the last "Star Wars" movie.
Did you prefer the other version without as much exposition?
But there is far too much clumsy exposition, as when a friend tells Corrine: "As long as I can remember, she was a real problem.
"What may be different here is that you didn't have as much need for exposition in past TV shows," Poniewozik says, "because the narratives weren't as complex.
What's great about this is that, somewhere, right now, there is a similar production about 1912 that relies just as much on heavy exposition and mockery.
Its too-muchness — the encyclopedic detail, the pseudoscholarly exposition, the soaring allegory, the punishing length — was as much a product of Tolkien's literary sensibility as of Mr. Jackson's commitment to cinematic maximalism.
Neither they nor the novel's lesser characters come across as much more than convenient vessels of exposition to carry the story forward.
Now, (8) is certainly an interesting thesis that merits much more consideration than it has hitherto received (at least in the recent philosophical literature), and, as indicated, the above theorists can appeal to the fact that early expositions of the identity theory seem to have had as much invested in (8) as in (5) or (7): on this point see §2 below.
Barton's last session, an open lecture attended by the participants as well as by ticket buyers, turned out to be as much an act of drama as an act of exposition.
(Part of what makes Levenson's script so good, at least for the first half of the show, is that he doesn't explain where Evan's father is, or give us much of Heidi's background. Jettisoning the backstory allows the actors to convey as much of it as they can through behavior, rather than through exposition).
