Dreadnought Fox
#2: Apr 6th 2011 at 3:51:43 AM
I think it would be more productive to weed out the natter by rewriting some examples to integrate the natter comments into the example listed.
Hard armor, big guns.
The Other Troper
#3: Apr 8th 2011 at 10:34:12 PM
The unintentional version is actually a pre-established term called "on the nose", and I made a ykttw
to split this off.
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#4: Sep 14th 2011 at 2:11:05 PM
Bump. YKTTW seems to have stalled as well.
First key to interpreting a work: Things mean things.
#5: Sep 14th 2011 at 2:13:45 PM
I say call it dead.
#6: Oct 2nd 2011 at 12:54:51 PM
Another issue with this trope is the way it's constantly sinkholed for no good reason, like Understatement.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it. And even if it is broke, just ignore it and maybe it'll be sort of OK — like the environment."
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A lot of the Captain Obvious examples are clearly intentional. That's fine, and doesn't contradict the trope at all. The problem is that the page then gets bogged down with natter with people pointing out "that was clearly Played for Laughs." The Lord of the Rings film section is a great example, especially since it has both the intentionally funny version ("The tree is talking, Merry") and the unintentional version (every single one of Legolas' lines).
I don't think we even need a soft split, just a rework of the description splitting it into type 1 (original, Bad Writing version) and type 2 (intentional). Then we can just tag them type 1 or 2, easy.
The reason I'm bringing this here is because I'm horrible with rewriting descriptions, and type 2 may already be a trope somewhere.