Expand and Rename: Danger Room Cold Open

nope. at either end and either way; it's not real

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One of them is involuntary and the person experiencing it often thinks it's real. The other is usually voluntary, and the person almost always knows it's a simulation. Not understanding the difference between those two is a problem I can't help you with.

"Did anybody invent this stuff on purpose?" - Phillip Marlowe on tequila, Finger Man by Raymond Chandler.

What about a cold open that involves 2 characters fighting each-other, but then it's revealed that they were really just sparring for practice (no simulation involved). Should that count?

How about we make the definition "Seems like a Batman Cold Open, but it's revealed that the characters were never really in any danger, or that any danger was only for the sake of practice."

So that would include the whole range: training simulations, training in general, and dreams.

So basically the trope would be Fakeout Batman Cold Open.

You do realize that if the 2 are not the same, there is some misuse on all just a dream?

Plenty of times you know you're dreaming, and people develop controlled dreaming as a skill.

All Just a Dream is any time the apparent situation is not reality. That currently covers training role play games, holographic simulations, and dreaming.

edited 16th Feb '12 6:55:41 PM by crazysamaritan

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Can we call this crowner against rename?

Oppression anywhere is a threat to democracy everywhere.

Hollered.

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Crowner called. Anything else need to be done?

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

A new thread for The Teaser needs to be launched, proposing a rename to Cold Open because the term "teaser" is a lot broader than "first part of a work". This one should be linked; renaming all cold open tropes was proposed. Then this thread can be locked.

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Okay, so no rename, I'm good with that.

But aren't we redefining this?

Is anyone okay with the definition I gave earlier? "Seems like a Batman Cold Open, until it's revealed that the character or characters involved were never really in any danger, or that any danger was only for the sake of practice."

abk 0100,

That redefinition suggestion seems alright to me. If no one has any objections to it, I would glad to swap it in *

unless you would like to do that

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As for renaming The Teaser to Cold Open, I think that probably deserves its own thread.

edited 14th Mar '12 7:28:37 AM by LouieW

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Yes to both proposals by @60.

Fanfic Recs orwellianretcon'd: cutlocked for committee or for Google?

Agree, especially if we can close this 482-days thread afterwards.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Sure, whatever. *shrug*

Rhymes with "Protracted."

Clocking this thread. Is there anything left to do here?

Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.

Clock is up; with no further activity since the clocking, requesting lock here.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman