Paul Mavis of DVD Talk said "'The Clash of Triton' spends way too much time on exposition, setting up the short's premise, while skimping on what should have been a priority: the jokes".
At the exposition, the couple set up a booth to promote Community House and wandered around the ballroom examining the merchandise: wedding videos featuring guests in a conga line, plush bridal teddy bears to hang on rearview mirrors.
Rees's film, about racial tensions in rural Mississippi, is dully methodical exposition that serves solely to set up a shattering climax.
As a species of farce, this one is unusually wordy, with mouthfuls of exposition laboriously setting up each and every joke.
Experiments set up in different stress expositions show a global negative effect of stress exposure on the efficacy of restoration techniques.
When she set up a display at a trade exposition in Dubai, she took along her brother Faris so she would not offend people unaccustomed to dealing with a businesswoman.
As part of the exposition's theme, "Better City, Better Life," the organizers have also set up an "Urban Best Practices" area.
While the first film suffered from having to set up the story and slog through the exposition, including the opening scenes in Bag End that 95% of viewers agree were too long, The Desolation of Smaug has nothing holding it back.
The last few seasons, despite the occasional burst of ambition or sheer awfulness, followed a predictable pattern: The show set up a Big Bad or two, delivered leaden exposition via internal monologue, and then served up big confrontations at the end of the season.
Right from the start it's all action and violence with no time taken to set up the story...It's like a streamlined Dirty Harry movie – no exposition at all; just guns, guns and more guns".
