| Ajax said: I read the rest of BigFatJ's post, but I just don't agree that complexity is by definition negative in writting; it only becomes a problem is you can't present it well.. |
I think we're basically agreeing, but failing to communicate. If I understand you correctly, you are saying that complex concepts are not negative writing values. I'd agree that this is generally true. I'm really talking about the way in which they are presented.
I don't imagine a reviewer would complain that the situations are complex if the telling was elegant. Notice Rocketpig's comment above about the scene from Space Oddity: the scene he described is complex and amazing and simple all at the same time to him, but to another viewer it might just be a guy removing expansion boards from a blade-style server and rendering it dead.
The beauty of employing techniques like that to show your story is that the viewer will take away what they're capable of: you don't have to simplify the story for a simple explanation, but you aren't spoon feeding it either.
