Discussion Main / OutOfFocus

Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Out Of Focus, started by WaxingName on Apr 23rd 2011 at 12:34:04 AM

I'm not sure I get the logic that Peter himself is absent from Disney's Peter Pan derivative media because he's "(mostly) a Public Domain Character". Most of the Disney Princesses are Public Domain Characters. I'd have thought it was more likely that Disney's problem is that "mostly"; he's not quite a public domain character in the UK, and they're not the copyright holder. But I'd have thought that also applies to other characters like Tink and Hook, so I don't know.

I think the Thomas the Tank Engine example should be updated due to the fact that most of the characters listed in it have returned to the series. While Terence still has yet to make an appearance in the CGi series, since Season 17, Duck, Bill, and Ben have returned and even had a few A Day in the Limelight episodes. Season 18 re-introduced Oliver and his brake van, Toad, and the Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure movie re-introduced Donald and Douglas.

Removed this:

• It may have been more problematic to resolve Toph's personal arc. Her parents' efforts to get her back included casually declaring the Gaang outlaws and setting up a phony meeting to imprison their daughter. Their reaction to her amazing abilities is to promise to clamp down ever further on her. Up against that, she's better off chatting with the imprisoned Ozai. What dramatic insight could people that far gone have that would make them truly change or relent?

An obvious justifying edit/natter. But also errant nonsense. Master Yu and Zen Fu set up the phony meeting, not her parents. They just decided to use Toph's mother's name and their currently empty house in Ba Sing Se.

And their reaction to her amazing abilities is perfectly reasonable, given the circumstances. Besides the fact that she's been lying to them since she could speak (she specifically said that she could always see with Earthbending), she was just captured and held for ransom. That's probably one of the top 3 fears for wealthy parents, having their children held hostage for money. Plus, this is all dumped on them within a short couple of hours at the most. So they made the decision that safeguarded their daughter's life best.

And then she ran away. Without leaving a note (because she can't write), mind you. What the hell are they supposed to think or do? Would you rather believe that your daughter, after doing everything in your power to keep her safe and secure, spit in your face and ran off with some guys she just met to go on a quest that will likely end with her getting killed? Or that the guys she met abducted her?

I don't think Elise, Ray, or Emerel should be on the Sonic example, becuase they predate the big character phase out.