Duplicate Trope: Soapland Christmas

This trope is really just "Twisted Christmas, but when an ongoing work's actual Christmas Episode has shocking/depressing content". Additionally, there are a few examples included that are simply Twisted Christmas, without happening in an ongoing work:

• In the BBC mockumentary The Day Britain Stopped, Britain as a whole undergoes a transport paralysis with massive gridlocks across the country in 20 December 2003 - which was a couple of years later than the first airing of this production. Unlike what you may think about traffic jams, this proved to be much more than just a minor annoyance: traffic jams were stretched for tens of kilometers, motorists were stranded for hours and some even had to stay at emergency shelters overnight, and the fallout resulted in at least two tragedies:
  • One mother have lost her daughter in an accident on a motorway. The ambulance took 1 hour to reach the scene, and did not make it to the hospital in time (paramedics ran out of blood transfusion on the way).
  • The air traffic control just outside of Heathrow Airport suffered from lack of staff members due to them being stuck in traffic. One of the operators, having done shifts for at least 8 hours, made an error (probably in fatigue), which resulted in two plane colliding into each other and crashing into a residential district in London. At least 80+ people died, including a family who had to walk along the motorway to Heathrow just so that they could get to their plane in time for their vacation.
• Eugenesis is an insanely dark story, where the plot just happens to start just before Christmas Day. A massive amount of death and carnage occur on the actual day, and the story continues on in increasingly bleakness right through to the new year.
• Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections is an entire novel of this.
• Both of Kyle Hyde's adventures in Hotel Dusk Room 215 and Last Window involve Christmas time. The first game involves a quick plot detour to help Melissa celebrate the Christmas she missed. The second games plays it a little more with Kyle dealing with his misgivings about the holiday, due to his father being murdered around that time when he was a kid.

Is the fact of the event being the Christmas Episode of an ongoing work enough to make it a separate trope?

Also, many of the links to the page are from other trope pages that it's being distinguished from, rather than works pages.

edited 10th Jan '16 2:34:54 PM by LondonKdS

I'd be in favour of merging this back.

Seems like a needless distinction.

Also a pretty lousy name... I thought it was about, well, Christmas in a Soapland which... well, it'd be different, at least.

So yeah, cut.

edited 15th Jan '16 7:11:39 AM by Larkmarn

So most people seem not to care or support cutting this. Shall I add it to the cut list?

Not enough consensus to do that yet.

I support the merge. It has over 100 inbounds, which I believe is enough to require us to preserve the name as a redirect.

Agreed on the merge.

Doesn't seem that different from Twisted Christmas, so I support the merge.

Also supporting the merge. I think the description in Soapland Christmas is better written though Twisted Christmas has a clearer name.

The nice thing about merging is we can pick the best bits from each page.

Clock is set.

Also support merge. We seem to have near-consensus here. Should we toss in a crowner?

~LondonKDS?

Yes, absolutely, if there's consensus now I'll start on a merge.

For formality's sake, the discussion page is blank so nothing needs saving.

Oops, sorry, there's an archived discussion page with one post. Can a mod please merge?

Now moved all the examples from Soapland into Twisted, and bits of the write-up

Changed or deleted all work pages

Now turned Soapland Christmas into a redirect page.

I think this is finished. Sorry to be stupid, but how do I close this thread?

I'm sure the admins will do it if you ask. Also, I agree with the merge/cut.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/relatedsearch.php?term=Main/SoaplandChristmas and https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/remarks.php?trope=Main.SoaplandChristmas needs to be done still.

What needs to be done with the "related" page? Should the Laconic version be cutlisted or redirected? The appearance of The Day Britain Stopped on the related page is a ghostwick from a deleted page.

Laconics should never be redirected.