Timeline for Is this telling and not showing, and why is it ok in here?
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| Apr 25, 2022 at 16:26 | comment | added | user54131 | I mostly agree. Importantly, it can be non-engaging regardless of who is telling. But avoiding it would in this case mean having a different scene than "X is telling Y how his powers work", rather than conveying that scene differently. | |
| Apr 25, 2022 at 15:37 | comment | added | Joelle Boulet | Putting "tell" narration into a speech balloon (or dialog in a non-graphic medium) doesn't change it from tell to show. It just changes who does the telling. Though as F1Krazy said in their answer sometimes you can't help but to tell when showing might be very hard to show in the specified medium. | |
| Apr 25, 2022 at 6:27 | history | answered | user54131 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |