Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10972716-20150505192207/@comment-25926288-20150505195011

They can't show everything because:

1) Not every thing is important. Who cares about Tink meeting Cora, etc. It doesn't need to be shown becasue it disconnects from the plot. You don't get flashbacks of everything in movies, do you? No!

2) 43 minutes they have, not ten hours of trivial matter, plus it depends on availability. You aren't going to pay someone thousands of dollars on pointless scenes. Clearly, they need to keep the money on CGI and sets.

There are valid complaints of them Telling and not showing, but those aren't it. Trvial details aren't important, but the character development is the most important thing where "Show, don't tell" is applied.