Rename: Sugar Wiki.Moment Of Awesome

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While "Crowning" was certainly becoming increasingly undescriptive, "Moment of Awesome" sounds clunky.

"Epic Moment of Awesome" is tautologous.

"Epic Moment", however, is possibly a good idea, since while "epic" and "awesome" are supposed to have similar meanings, "awesome"'s has been eroded due to spectacular overuse both on and off the internet. It's also a bit shorter to say and much shorter to type.

I think the name Moment of Awesome rolls of the tounge fine, but how come Funny Moments and Heartwarming Moments weren't changed with it?

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I'm still trying to get an answer as to why "Crowning Music Of Awesome" still has the "Crowning" in it's title. I mean, yes, I prefer that name, but it just seems out of place now. Shouldn't it have been changed to "Awesome Music" when the others were changed for consistency's sake?

And, yes, there are many things that roll off the tongue better than "Awesome Moments", like "Crowning Moment Of Awesome", or "Moment Of Awesome", or even "Epic Moment of Awesome".

edited 20th Jan '11 9:35:59 PM by Balmung

^ It was supposed to have been renamed a while ago. There was a name discussion that IIRC was leaning towards SugarWiki.Awesome Music.

I still stand by my idea (proposed in a thread that seemed to die a month or two ago) that we make one page called "Crowning Moments" or something like that, describing the phenomena of Crowning Moment Of Awesome, Crowning Moment Of Funny, Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming, and whatever other Crowning Tropes Of Whatever we have/had. We make it an example free, and then link to the Awesome Moments (because that's an at least better name than Moment Of Awesome), Funny Moments, and Whatever Moments pages at the bottom, such as:

• "For examples of these phenomena, see Blah, Blah, and Blah."

(Obviously that would need a better description.) Then, we make all the "Moments" pages (as well as Crowning Music Of Awesome, which probably can be listed on the page) Troper Tales pages so that we needn't worry as much about their subjectivity. People will have to sign their examples and only list one single example, just as it is on the Dethroning Moment Of Suck page.

Now, what say you about that? If you guys support this idea, I'll make a YKTTW for it.

edited 21st Jan '11 7:48:16 AM by 0dd1

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I actually heard the words "crowning moment" used on a daytime talk show the other day. Makes me wonder if it's not just a memetic term, but a pre-existing one.

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edited 21st Jan '11 1:34:31 PM by Balmung

Epic Moments of Awesome sounds good.

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"Crowning moment" is indeed a preexisting term. However, it also has a specific meaning as a preexisting term: the epitome, the ultimate high point. Not simply "Hey, this is cool"

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Come to think of it, Moments Of Awesome could make a nice title, on similar logic to how Trope Namer (singular) redirects to Trope Namers (plural).

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I agree. The change to "Moment of Awesome" completely baffled me. "Crowning Moment of Awesome" was much less generic. It was supposed to indicate a PARTICULARLY awesome moment in a work. "Moment of Awesome" just doesn't have that same effect.

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"Supposed to be." The whole reason it changed is because people were dumping in the 6218 moments throughout the series' history that they found really cool.

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"Moments of Awesome" just doesn't sound as good as "Crowning Moments of Awesome" or "Epic Moments of Awesome." Having a prefix to the current title would make it better.

Please, gods, don't call it "Epic" Moments of Awesome. I admit it's a pet peeve, but I hate the overuse (and misuse) of "epic" as an adjective.

Agreed. If I never hear "epic" outside of discussions of Homer again, it will be much too soon.

If this gets renamed, I suggest taking the opportunity to make it grammatical. Awesome is not a noun.

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FYI, I corrected the link in the thread and edited the title to indicate that it's simply a rename discussion, not a "rename to X" discussion. For the record, I do not support any further renames; the title as it stands works fine for what it's intended to be.

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@Micah: It's just being used as a convenient shorthand for "awesomeness".

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I realize that, but it still ; "convenient" doesn't mean "not wrong". It's not worth a rename on its own, but if one is happening anyway I'd prefer a name that doesn't have this flaw.

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What really me is the removal of the term itself. The "Crowning" just made it a unique and memorable trope name, and even if the original trope won't be renamed back (And I admit that it really doesn't fit the name anymore), we need a page called Crowning Moment of Awesome SOMEWHERE on TV Tropes. I kind of like 0dd's suggestion, but we should also have a Crowner for moments in general, too.

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Can I just ask people to consider whether or not the idea I suggested above is good or not?

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Sounds good.

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