@vilobion said in The Villainess Speaks Not Vol. 3 Discussion:
@Cryten said in The Villainess Speaks Not Vol. 3 Discussion:
A minus in a otherwise well written chapter is the reliance on "They moved to fast to see" as a way to avoid choreography. Notable mostly only for the contrast between the otherwise high calibre story telling.
As someone who has been experiencing a real bugbear of a time getting a big fight scene wirtten... I can understand the urge to do the cop out.
Probably best to commit depicting fights fully in detail, or going over the broad strokes without going into detail, as opposed to half-assing between the two.
It's also arguably the case that writing much more would be irrelevant and potentially even detract from the story as a whole. This isn't a series which is focused on fighting or tournaments, and these fights are mostly incidental to the story. The author is showing them to the extent that makes sense for the story that he's trying to tell, but putting much focus on the fights would just eat up pages which would arguably be better spent on the main story.
Even Austin's fight got much less detail than would have happened with a story that was actually focused on fighting, and that one mattered more both due to his character growth and because Olga working her way through the tournament seems to be one of the main points of this part of the story. So, I would guess that we won't see many fights that she isn't in, and even then, they'll probably only be roughly as detailed as her fight with Austin was. From the standpoint of the story being told, the point of these fights isn't so much the fights as what results from them.
