Oh, I love this. I love it when a series can take nearly an entire episode and fill it with nothing but dialogue, especially the meaningful kind. I now understand why people were praising this series for its romance, and this episode really showed what a well written dialogue can do to your characters. I sometimes hear people say that one of the most important rule of storytelling is to “show, not tell”, but I disagree with that: the combination between what you show and what you tell should be important.
Despite being a relatively uneventful episode, the chemistry between Jinto and Lafiel already rocked after only three episodes. It’s also not line one of them is so much smarter or talkative to the other: they basically strengthen each other: whenever Lafiel asks a difficult question, you can see Jinto think hard about it, come with an answer and reply with a question that’s just as hard or confronting.
I think what I liked best was that part in which Jinto discovered that Lafiel used a fake name, and tried to apologize like hell about making her uncomfortable and actually calling her by her real title. He of all people should know how annoying it must be to have everyone regard him as nobility. At this point, I’d now love to see Lafiel together with some of the other crew members. We know how she thinks that they treat her, but I’d love to see their side of the story as well.
Rating: ** (Excellent)
The statement “show don’t tell” is not really about the amount of dialog in a story. It just means instead of the storyteller relating events like it was a news broadcast they relate events so we can experience them along with the characters.
So even with lots of dialog you can still be “showing” instead of “telling”.
i dunno if id call it a fake name, since Lafiel is her real name after all. Its just people arent supposed to call nobility by their first names.
aye, and it’s actually a very well known name, it’s just that Jinto was too much of a backwater bum that he never heard of her name.
Great insight, psgels. BTW, don’t worry, we will see Lafiel operating in a team environment very soon, with a superior, and it will be great.
And as mentioned above, Lafiel isn’t a fake name, it’s her given name – which very few people have the “guts” to use when addressing someone of her status.
the dialogues in this anime is just the best. If you think that this is a good dialogue, you are in for a suprise, it only gets better. dialogues between admiral Spoor and her XO, or the banter beteen the Bebaus-brothers (season2) is just so damn good, it leaves this one far behind.