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#1: Nov 11th 2011 at 1:27:20 AM

Buffy's certainly well known. After all it's where TV Tropes originated. However I'm wondering if perhaps there could be a more descriptive image that we could use.

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#3: Nov 11th 2011 at 2:40:26 AM

Motion to pull

Just Nine Faces And A Caption.

AceNoctali A lil' bentô ? from France Since: Nov, 2009
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#5: Nov 11th 2011 at 6:35:11 AM

A classic and textbook JAFAAC we have there indeed.

Support pull.

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#6: Nov 11th 2011 at 6:45:07 AM

I could get the idea behind it. Who isn't a woobie? But I think we can do better.

Might there be a Buffy related substitute? Too tired to think of any right now.

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#7: Nov 11th 2011 at 11:22:18 AM

Let's leave it up until something better is suggested.

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#8: Nov 11th 2011 at 11:30:13 AM

That pic does nothing for me because I've never watched Buffy. They just look like a bunch of people standing around. We'd be better off with a pic of a little kid or something like that.

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#9: Nov 11th 2011 at 11:42:44 AM

If someone actually looked sad or pitiable in the picture, it'd be fine. This is a bunch of bored strangers.

I'd say pull, but I can't think of anything better to suggest.

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Bookyangel2438 from New York City Since: Jul, 2011
#10: Nov 11th 2011 at 12:56:33 PM

I'll say pull as well, because everyone just looks kind of bored.

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#11: Nov 11th 2011 at 1:09:54 PM

I don't see how they are woobieish at all.

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#12: Nov 11th 2011 at 1:15:04 PM

So can we come up with a good alternative then?

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#13: Nov 11th 2011 at 7:30:20 PM

That's so JAFAAC it's painful. That being said, I got nuthin' on adequately pic'ing this.

edited 11th Nov '11 7:33:40 PM by Willbyr

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#14: Nov 11th 2011 at 8:33:00 PM

Tropes like this have a noted tendency to JAFAAC, and this is definitely a case of that.

Not sure how we can picture it, but the current image isn't the way.

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#15: Nov 12th 2011 at 5:15:13 AM

Since the person who uploaded the image is going with a Buffy theme let's look over the Tearjerker page and see if there are some canidates.

Buffy learning of the prophecy of her death perhaps?

Or Willow discovering the vampire massacre, same episode?

A few screencaps from Innocence would work.

Leaving Sunnydale?

Might post screencaps for ideas.

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#17: Nov 29th 2011 at 9:20:39 AM

I wouldn't mind if we just left this imageless. Not every subpage needs a pic.

Firebert That One Guy from Somewhere in Illinois Since: Jan, 2001
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#18: Nov 29th 2011 at 9:23:48 AM

Yeah, the current pick is very horribly JAFAAC. If we have a pic, we could at least have the character(s) in it look Woobie-ish.

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#19: Nov 29th 2011 at 9:33:29 AM

I say pull it. It only makes sense if you've seen the show. Or maybe if you know its by Joss Whedon.

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#20: Nov 29th 2011 at 9:40:50 AM

And you know who Joss Whedon is. [lol]

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#21: Nov 29th 2011 at 9:47:41 AM

Seconded.

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#24: Nov 29th 2011 at 6:11:23 PM

I motion to find a fitting image, but I have a feeling I'm going to be outvoted.

Okay, do it.

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#25: Nov 29th 2011 at 7:11:02 PM

I'm not going to shed many tears if we wind up not finding a replacement, really (though Eddie wants us to, so we're going to have to try). This isn't a terribly picturable trope.

+1 to pull.


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