No, the other one.
I thought of the right trope when I read the image. Ambiguous, though.
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Yeah, my first thoughts were about travel powered by Applied Phlebotinum rather than the narrative dictating how fast things go.
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It probably makes more sense in context, with just a nod to Medium Awareness. Otherwise, yeah, not a great image.
I'm no fan of more OOTS images but you'd think at least they'd have a strip somewhere that lampoons it....
edited 13th Dec '13 6:09:36 PM by Stratadrake
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OOTS tends to avoid this trope more than anything. This
probably comes closest and it wouldn't make a good page image.
I have a rule: if I'm drunk and I don't understand a page image, it's probably not a good image. Well, I'm drunk, and I don't understand the page image. Or the suggestions for that matter.
Fairly ambiguous, although "plot device" to me points more towards "speed of plot" than "phlebotinum".
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I understand it because I am familiar with the phrase "travels at the speed of plot", that was part of a TV author's response when asked about how fast a spaceship goes.
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I can see the arguments for it being misleading, but I'm voting Keep Until Better Image Suggested.
I'm fine with the current image, I got it when I first saw it.
The only possible problem I see is that the image implies that "speed of plot" is always fast, when it can just as easily be slow.
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Yeah, speed of plot goes both ways, depending on how it interacts with Conservation of Detail.
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Here's why I think this image is problematic: The car mentioned in the image is fast. It's that way because it's powered by a plot device, which from context would have to be some sort of Phlebotinum. The issue is that Travels At The Speed Of Plot isn't only for fast things, it's for "thing that goes fast or slow depending on what the plot dictates". Whereas the image implies something that always makes the car go fast. It makes the image look like it's talking about a Subtrope of Applied Phlebotinum or Green Rocks that's used to increase the speed of a vehicle in the narrative.
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The image looks edited to me. Look at the font "plot device" is written in, then compare it to the rest of the text.
Anyway, I don't really like the image, simply because being powered by "plot device" makes it sound like it uses Applied Phlebotinum.
It's a tough one because it's following the dictates of how fast or slow something needs to be because the plot demanded it, like how the Magic Countdown moves as fast as the story requires and it's somewhat hard to think of an image which fits and the current only does so through technically being the trope but open to being badly interpreted as some form of phlebotinum.
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That could be part of the original image, you know. Like if "plot device" was used as a joke placeholder to keep from having to fill in the blank.
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The image is actively misleading; it makes it look like the trope is about, well, traveling using a plot device (so Applied Phlebotinum) rather than the narrative idea that transit times in fiction are wholly dictated on the needs of the plot.
Here's the image:
Since it obfuscates the trope, I'd be down to pull without a replacement.
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