A certain video pissed me off so here's some vague counter things
"TADC characters don't interact off screen" the following scenes start mid off screen interaction or a character stumbles into an offscreen interaction or one happens, IE implied or deadass offscreen interactions
This one is fragments of interactions we don't hear
"Ragatha should've mentioned the butterfly"
If you lived for years in the circus you wouldn't bat an eye at stuff like this happening in adventures unless given a reason otherwise
"Jax dies instead of healing and being redeemed and also he's depicted as a character who isn't a horrible person"
For a guy who complained a lot about telling and not showing you sure missed the part where the show consistently shows him being awful and straight up tells you he's being awful and his abstraction scene was him being redeemed in a sense where he understands where he went wrong and owns up to it but at a point where it was too late "Jax is too unlikeable I wish he was more likable" He's not a perfectly written character but I think the point was he... I dunno Sabotaged himself from a better ending in contrast to the others who didn't abstract??? He's like a foil??? "The characters don't advance the plot 'till episode 7" The majority of what happens in episode 7 is a direct consequence of all the episodes before hand with every decision made and does steer the overarching plot while navigating this world we're thrown in with pomni. It's called pacing which wasn't nailed in the first episode, sure, but there's a reason it took a while to get to this point. When I had a writers' group one of the things we talked about was "Before you burn the village, introduce the village so the audience can grow to care" "Too much is told not shown" While in some cases it can be true but the examples shown were primarily pomni's breakdown and gangle's breakdown which is basically showing how the character reacted to the previously shown event the whole episode... Almost like we need to be shown what happened in order for the breakdown to happen... and gangle didn't really blabber on much about it at the end of the episode but we are SHOWN how she reacts after pomni leaves without words spoken, just music. And also another thing used as an example was kinger loredumping about the circus but like... The show takes place after the intial creation and whatever's brought up, save for a few, usually gets shown in a flashback so we have some context. Like the characters wouldn't organically bring up something they haven't experienced, ragatha appeared after the majority of the ogs abstracted "It should've had way more episodes" Gooseworx is the creator and makes the call of how many episodes it'll have as Glitch has repeatedly stated regardless of whether or not we need more episodes "Gooseworx admitted she doesn't know what she's doing" It's an indie show for an indie company with not a lot of professional standards the way a non indie show would.
Everyone loves indie until it has flaws that being an indie show would have given how often I hear people complain about said flaws in every new indie show that comes out.
"This one is too raunchy!" "this one has this character written in a way I feel is wrong for this character I know more about than the creator" "Its way too short! EVIL" "These designs aren't super professional" "The style isn't modern" "the style is too modern" "there's too little going on" "there's too much going on" "Redesign the characters" "but not too much" "you shouldn't have this voice actor cause I already headcannoned another" "This voice actor is being held at gunpoint to do this show I hate!" "This creator can't be friends with this creator cause I hate the things they make" "Creators should have full creative control!" "Not like that it's not my standard!"
Anyways I rambled a bit but I'm just tired of "Show don't tell" being used as a counter argument when the person clearly doesn't know what counts as showing and what counts as telling Telling instead of showing is basically only getting information through dialogue or, in some cases, directly saying x happened cause b so c must be t or explaining what happened directly to the audience (family guy does that last one a lot from what I'm told but take that with a grain of salt) Someone shown to have emotions on camera when we are shown directly what happened previously doesnt automatically qualify as telling just because its an emotion or words happen during emotional moments. "we don't know why caine thinks all he's meant to do is create as a creative ai" Say that really slowly "Kinger lost his mind and we never know why" he lost his wife and co workers and was on a mental decline since then as SHOWN and not TOLD
