Needs help distinguishing it from Character Filibuster: Author Filibuster

Unless there are a significant amount of examples for the Narrator Filibuster, I'd rather just create the currently-nonexistent supertrope for Narrative Filibuster and use that for any miscellaneous examples that don't fit in the subtropes.

Bump. Can this be closed?

Looks like we need to create a Narrative Filibuster supertrope. A Narrative Filibuster is when the action stops so that the work can deliver a lecture on a topic, which can take the form of simple narration about it, dialogue between two or more characters on it, a side-story to illustrate the point, or any number of other things. A Character Filibuster is a Narrative Filibuster delivered as a monologue by a single character. An Author Filibuster is a Narrative Filibuster or Character Filibuster used to push the author's personal ideology (and probably needs to be redefined as Trivia, given that we're splitting off Narrative Filibuster as the "storytelling tool" part of the definition).

Should we YKTTW Narrative Filibuster, or just sandbox it up?

edited 23rd Feb '12 4:23:31 PM by NativeJovian

Question: how do you define the explicit difference between Info Dump and Narrative Filibuster given that definition?

An Info Dump would be a subtrope of Narrative Filibuster meant to deliver Exposition.

Ah, so it's a step higher than what I was thinking.

I say sandbox it; port all of the Author Filibuster examples over, and let Wiki Magic copy the qualifying versions back. Maybe make three examples for Author Filibuster.

Clocking for lack of activity.

And locking for same.