“there’s no time to explain” and “I think you should see this for yourself” are such frustrating tropes to me. I groan pretty much every time I encounter them because they always feel so contrived and manipulative towards the audience

but at the same time, I realize that it’s pretty hard to create well-paced mystery and/or suspense without contrivances like this. with this trope you suddenly gain so much control over the pacing of the story and the information that the protagonist has access to, which makes it way easier to write an otherwise satisfying story