Looks like someone forgot to crosswick the entries for a page they launched. As well as having a name that suggests something completely different.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanAll the Real Life versions need to go. The fictional versions are something (I feel like we've got a trope for it, I'm going to look), but the "What Could Have Been but whining" examples are useless.
This includes the picture(s).
edited 6th Jan '14 7:54:52 AM by Larkmarn
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.I could say that one idea is to bring this back to YKTTW so that we could be able to agree on a consistent definition and based on it see if we can make examples out of that.
Also, agreed on axing the images.
edited 6th Jan '14 4:45:19 PM by EarlOfSandvich
I now go by Graf von Tirol.I believe that I'll make the crowner for this, and if it's alright with everyone else I shall remove the images.
I now go by Graf von Tirol.Page creator here, yes it the page needs help. I did ask around for a better image a while back but nothing was forthcoming.
The name could be better and some examples could be moved to/from What Could Have Been.
I'm adding some links on the relevant pages.
edited 11th Feb '14 4:27:43 AM by MCE
My latest Trope page: Shapeshifting FailureIt also seems fairly close to Serendipity Writes the Plot.
The examples in question, including the one in the description, read to me like an In-Universe equivalent to Real Life Writes the Plot.
EDIT: In my opinion, it's technically Tropable, since it's fictional characters coming up against these problems for works the characters produce, as opposed to real life writers.
If we have that elsewhere, then this one should go. It depends in part on how large the In-Universe sections of the RLWtP Sub Tropes are.
edited 12th Feb '14 7:22:35 PM by DonaldthePotholer
Ketchum's corollary to Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced tactic is indistinguishable from blind luck.Clock is set.
Alright.
As I said before, the What Could Have Been but whining examples need to go. Those have no place on a trope page. That leaves the Literature and Arthur examples. Fineas and Pherb is a ZCE. Maybe the real life section can stay.
Name's okay, description's weak at best (Alice and Bob, mentions the What Could Have Been bits).
Personally, I'd like to cut it and send it to YKTTW because the basic trope (big plans, but it winds up looking nothing like them) is definitely tropeable and I don't think it's covered by anything else, but it needs description work as well as examples farming (there are plenty out there, I just can't think of any).
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.Also pulling for the cut-and-send-back-to-YKTTW option.
I now go by Graf von Tirol.Bumping. Any further thoughts? Perhaps I'll make a crowner?
I now go by Graf von Tirol.Sending it back to YKTTW seems the best suggestion so far. It wouldn't be a terrible loss if it was deleted, I should have realized it was on pretty shaky ground when I made it, but not every page can be a success, I've made plenty of others that have worked out fine.
My latest Trope page: Shapeshifting FailureCut and send back sounds good
to cutting and sending back.
Five may not be enough to act on this, but it seems like we may be inclined to go with this.
I now go by Graf von Tirol.Make it six.
"Polite life will fill you full of cancer." - Iggy Pop "I've seen the future, brother, it is murder." -Leonard CohenMake it seven, and make it so.
That's a yes. Its worth a try, but I'm not optimistic at this point.
My latest Trope page: Shapeshifting FailureI'll help best I can. You've got a definite trope here. I know I've seen examples where someone holds up plans and then moves it to reveal the awful reality many times.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.So what's the procedure? Just make a new YKTTW with details from the old one? It would help if I knew which examples are worth keeping.
My latest Trope page: Shapeshifting FailureThe literature, Western Animation, and maybe real-life examples can stay.
The last two lines of the description should go, as they just describe the What Could Have Been parts which we're trying to move this away from. Ditto the picture. Potential new image?◊
edited 22nd Apr '14 5:30:02 AM by Larkmarn
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.Relaunched the trope via YKTTW. Link is here
The image is good, could you make a vertical version and one with just the first two panels?
edited 22nd Apr '14 10:36:12 AM by MCE
My latest Trope page: Shapeshifting Failure
Just two wicks and no inbounds. Also, not a whole lot of contributions since 2011, and the ones that are relate to formatting rather than including potential examples.
Probably would need a good revamp.
Here's the YKTTW
edited 5th Jan '14 5:49:04 PM by EarlOfSandvich
I now go by Graf von Tirol.