Transforming AudienceReactions into CharacterReactions

Recently there's been a trend of limiting tropes to In-Universe examples, and I think it's a good one. Character Reactions are prone to far less natter and are far more objective than Audience Reactions.

Squee is a good example of a trope that is thriving under this change. I'm making this project to look at the Audience Reaction index for more good candidates for the same process.

edited 25th Jul '11 1:34:08 PM by shimaspawn

I already did the same thing to Guilty Pleasures. I haven't hit all the wiks yet.

I did something like this a while back with I Read It for the Articles. However, the wicks were never entirely corrected. I hate doing that because it requires wading through so many work pages with so many dubious examples of so many different tropes.

Well, one thing we did for a couple tropes (like Love It or Hate It and Discredited Meme) was, when the example lists got out of hand with insane YMMV-ness, we left them as YMMV Audience Reactions, but took all the non-in-universe examples off the trope page itself. That way we have our cake and eat it too—no annoying YMMV entries on the main example list, but legit YMMV occurrences can still be documented on the YMMV pages of their respective works. (Plus, we don't have to fix every single wick like we would otherwise.)

edited 4th Aug '11 6:28:02 AM by troacctid

One thing we could do is turn all into Character Reactions then make a Audience Reaction namespace page for said reactions and link it on the page. Since Troper Tales are probably going away as well as they arnt really Troper Tales said thing are broader than just one person.

Getting back to the discussion here: one page that seems ripe for this kind of conversion is Ruined FOREVER. As an audience reaction, it's just so universal and so frivolous a complaint that it's silly to even just list egregious examples, as the current description says.

But it's not that common in fiction.

Yeah, in-universe They Changed It, Now It Sucks! is much more common.

I suggest True Art Is Incomprehensible (and maybe the other True Art tropes as well). Nearly all the examples of it I see are already character reactions.