Telly

Not much on telly tonight, as usual!

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[...] they were all in agreement: this stuff had to be on the telly.

We've got a new flat-screen telly.

I'm staying at the telly this weekend.

I think my problem with it is that it's a) a little "telly" not "showy" in comparison to the rest […]

There's a way to make this more showy and less telly. It's like you're in a hurry to get on with the rest of the story.

story is too, too telly; need at least 3 showy scenes to improve showing:telling ratio

Six of Crows is very telly and little showy. You are constantly getting info dumps and mini-flashbacks to the characters past.

The only other objection I have—and again, it’s minor—is that the very last chapter feels very “telly” and rushed. I get why, but a smoother exit would have really made an otherwise wonderful book almost perfect.

Lee’s style of narration reads like an old-style fairy tale to an extent—it’s very telly, if that makes any sense. We get descriptions of character actions and we’re told about character motives as filtered through the third-person narrator, but we don’t actually get to read these characters’ thoughts.

The ending felt rushed to me, and I wish it would have been more showy and less telly.