User blog comment:XGlass Reflection/Episode 5 Review~ DON'T HEADBUTT A LADY!!/@comment-5149736-20130505110253/@comment-151.143.49.235-20130506233211

The point to be drawn from it is, it is better when it is story rather than backstory making the progress of the action in the present fluid opposed to being disjointed. Relevant information being provided is not the point. It would be exactly the same as reading through the harry potter series and then having content in book 6 stop, or create a new book, to go on a huge tangent in the past about how flipantly homosexual dumbeldor really is. It really doesn't make sense to do something like that and it is better to show it in direct continuity.

In many other series, I find it really easy to skip episodes/volumes like this, since they either tend to be painfully obvious in terms of forshadowing or bear no real change in the end result of what is occuring in the present, thus making the why of what happened mostly irrellevant and eliminates entirely the possiblity of keeping with the protaganist's point of view in either self discovery or sharing the story with the audience as it develops (IE mechanism used, not content displayed).