Pika is the bombchu!
The pages have been merged, can we get this thread cleared out to make an opening?
mudshark: I don't expect Nate to make sense, really.
Wait, there's one thing: the trope counts parodies that parody something that was "a serious plot point, which invalidates the parody's argument". How is this redundant or nominal? You might not like something being made fun of, but by our own wiki's definition, "A parody is a twisted imitation of another artistic work. Some aspects may be exaggerated, and others downplayed.". Wouldn't that count as "exaggerated"?
That's misleading wording then. That refers to stuff like, say, Harry Potter, where the main character's entry into puberty is a serious plot point through much of the series. So if a would-be parody says, "what would Harry Potter be like if the main character... became a teenager?!" that would be a Redundant Parody.
On the other hand, a parody could make fun of how the series actually portrayed the character becoming a teenager, and that wouldn't be a redundant parody.
edited 16th May '13 1:58:36 PM by AmyGdala
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That makes perfect sense. So then the entry is right in that some examples must be this trope, but misleadingly doesn't make the exception that parodying their teenhood is indeed a parody. I will alter the wording of the description and examples to make sense of that. In fact, I can probably just take out the "serious point" bit, since that's covered by "exact same material". Can the trope be locked, then?
edited 12th May '13 7:40:02 PM by helterskelter
OK, it looks like Amy Gdala merged the pages already (and improperly, as the wicks are still unfixed), probably shortly before the crowner hooking. Should we just complete the merge as it is and then close this thread? I would favour that.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Given that literally all of the examples of Nominal Parody were Redundant Parody anyway, I switched most of them except the still-intact Nominal Parody and Nominal Parody, which I didn't feel like touching. I'll have to ask for it to be changed on some Locked Pages.
OK, I took care of the tagging and the last few wicks (except for a soon-to-be-cut orphaned laconic page and a locked page that has an edit request waiting).
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Hi
Is there anything left to do with this one?
Nothing, except for the edit and thread lock requests (I already took care of everything else).
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Hi
I took care of the edit request, so I'll shut this down.
Let's crowner some names, then.
Rhetorical, eh? ... Eight!