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While past Dolores is getting exposition dumps, present Dolores is stuck shaving the Man in Black.
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The family counselling sessions (led by a very funny Valerie Planche) are some of the more intriguing I've seen in quite some time, and, let's be honest, this is usually just a screenwriting crutch to get exposition out.
We get expositions and declamations and endless walking (through admittedly breathtaking landscapes).
He's got one exposition with one fugue subject.
Here we get an exposition of what we might call the Ayn Rand theory of financial regulation.
After scouring books about neurological disorders, he had what might be called a playwright's epiphany: "I thought, 'What a convenient device to get out exposition.' " The nuclear family of "Fuddy Meers" is typically American-neurotic; crazy and yet crazily devoted to one another.
If you have exposition that's important, get it in somehow.' " Allen is not easy on his actors, or on himself.
The many talking heads who appear in Otto Bloom become exposition unloaders: narrative get-out-of-jail-free cards for the writer/director to articulate things that would otherwise wriggle around in subtext.
And it's hard to imagine a novice reader getting much from exposition this compressed: "Latin squares can be used for devising a duty roster for n dirty jobs in a houseshare of n people.
Chibnall has repeatedly said of the new series that it's a great point to jump into the show for the first time, and the episode manages to deftly introduce concepts like the Doctor having two hearts, or what the sonic screwdriver does, without getting bogged down in exposition and continuity.
Things also got a bit exposition heavy from time-to-time – "The mission comes first!" "You're trained to surmount any obstacle!" – but then that's probably true of many opening episodes.
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