ReelReviews.net's James Berardinelli, an X-Men comic book fan, believed, "the film is effectively paced with a good balance of exposition, character development, and special effects-enhanced action.
The story, set in Kashmir, began breathily, without much exposition, the characters' haughty Englishness a welcome diversion, like sipping a cup of strong, sweet tea.
Ms. Cohn would later write one of the most emphatic declarations of the play's importance: "After 'Godot,' plots could be minimal; exposition, expendable; characters, contradictory; settings, unlocalized, and dialogue, unpredictable.
The play's clumsy exposition, inchoate characters — Lilith is exploited only meagerly as Maddie's lusty alter ego — and frequent shifts in tone suggest an early draft that has yet to be refined effectively.
Divided into 39 brief scenes, the show has a highly episodic pace and relies on some awkward exposition, with characters alone onstage talking to themselves and passages from the novel projected on the set's sliding panels between scenes.
I decided this would conflict with my aims and anyway, emotional conflict is inherent to child protection; artificial hyperbole could only cheapen.There were a number of technical aspects I needed to learn, like "show, don't tell, (avoid unnecessary static exposition by characters) and the importance of subtext (demonstrate the meaning underlying the dialogue).
Mercedes Schneider's book, A Chronicle of Echoes: Who's Who in the Implosion of American Public Education, provides even more detailed exposition of characters behind reform.
This opening scene, roughly a page long and presented in dialogue, briskly demonstrates what might be called the rubbernecking principle of narrative exposition: a character can be made to seem interesting by showing other characters pointing fingers or making comments.
This is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and I think the viewers are going to demand more than a new case every week with a few minutes of exposition and character development thrown in from time to time.
But it is also burdened by manipulative clichés of a screenplay in which exposition outweighs character development.
