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Author: Cidolfas

Dec 12th 2012 at 5:47:00 AM

The problem is that very few people ''are'' "just saying" that something is the CentralTrope of a work. Our trope lists themselves have no context, by which I mean that they're a mishmash of tropes that take up two seconds of screentime next to tropes that form the very basis of the work. Our raison d'etre (analyzing works) has started to degrade to overly pedantic and detailed observations and is not emphasizing the bigger picture of what a work is all about.

You could use the "slippery slope" argument anywhere, but not every work has a CentralTrope and assuming that this is going to be misused before it's seen the light of day strikes me as overly negative.

This may not be a "trope" in the purest sense of the word but I find it a useful, standardized (i.e. encouraged) way of discussing this idea on work pages. The fact that we already have SumThisUpInOneTrope indicates that I'm not the only person who thinks this kind of thing is useful; I just would like to see it used more widely. It may be that we don't need a page listing for this, but that it would simply be a "no examples" page allowing works pages to use a standard language for indicating their CentralTrope(s).