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Author: Cidolfas

Dec 14th 2012 at 6:01:49 AM

Yes, but work descriptions tend to either a) be a blueshifted mess of Trope Speak, or b) ignore tropes almost entirely and describe events and characters with few links. If there are links they tend to be describing the characters rather than the central themes. The advantage of separating them out is that it shines a spotlight on the things we're really interested in - the tropes that are important to the work - rather than force those tropes to be potholed in descriptions.

I can see this has evolved somewhat from my original idea, which I'm fine with. I started this after seeing WreckItRalph and reading RedShirts, both of which were very clearly meant to study/deconstruct/parody one or two very big tropes. If I Ran The Wiki (tm) I could see a mention of that sort of thing to be useful. But things being what they are and in particular the tendency of people to shoehorn tropes in where they don't belong (cf FiveManBand), I appreciate how it could devolve into a bunch of shouting arguments.

So... where do we go from here?