Quote Originally Posted by drazen View Post
But if Roy is going to pick up and throw a boulder that landed on the ship that wasn't originally there, then yes, I'd like to see it actually landing on the deck. I just find it sloppy not to. It would be similar to if when Roy was fighting Thog in the arena, we never saw Ian slip him a potion that he then used as an improvised weapon. It's perfectly plausible that the rogue did something sneaky or that Roy had something on him, but the best writing would be actually showing it happening. The full sequence was shown in the arena, but there is no reason to just assume a boulder landed on the deck..
First you complain about faulty analogies, then you go and compare a plot-important item (the potion bottle) with something that's just hanging out in the background (the boulder). It fell on the deck, it got thrown off. It was never relevant to the strip in any way. If you'd like, pretend Roy just threw the giant and the axe off the airship, pretend the boulder never got there in the first place, and the strip will be exactly the same. It's not "sloppy writing" to not show the origin of every item in the background of your strip.

Do you remember when Haley wrote Elan a love note during the Battle of Azure City? It was never shown where she got the paper from. Sloppy writing!!!