MoCellMan
Since: Jun, 2010
Dec 3rd 2010 at 11:36:26 AM
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TRS discussion that resulted in rename of Longing For Pandora to Longing for Fictionland.
Edited by MoCellMan Searching for plausible mechanisms.
Camacan
MOD
Since: Jan, 2001
Nov 13th 2010 at 5:41:03 PM
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Unknown Troper wrote in the old article's discussion page: "Isn't this just I Wish It Were Real?"
During the rename discussion we determined there was a difference: in I Wish It Were Real the wished for thing comes true. Here it never does.
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Kayube
Since: Jan, 2001
Nov 13th 2010 at 5:48:42 PM
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That's a trope in which someone wishes something fictional was real and it actually happens.
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Why isn't this subjective?, started by hotrods4ben on Oct 9th 2011 at 9:48:29 PM
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman