infodump

• The Tower of Druaga has an episode looking into Ahmey's past, but it really does nothing for the series, other than try to infodump information on things which have no relevance to the story at present. —  AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
• This chapter is an ethnologist's report on the planet - what would, in other circumstances, be considered an "infodump." —  Locus Online News
• For the Andrew Wright, Zodiac is Fincher's "most impressive monolith to date, a sprawling, three-decade-spanning infodump that, for all its virtuosity, occasionally feels like being locked in the file cabinet of a conspiracy junkie." —  GreenCine Daily
• Whereas somebody today would give you an infodump of several pages to explain how an alien object, for example, could reverse you, Zelazny tosses the idea off in a sentence or two, mixing it in with dozens of other bits and pieces throughout the book. —  SF Signal
• Gibson weaves his world in a highly skilled manner that gives the information the reader needs without resorting to infodump. —  TESTLOG

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