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Author: crazysamaritan

Jun 11th 2013 at 5:00:59 PM

Pardon me, but ''stools'' are an alternative to chairs.  Stools are out of step with common practice. It's not just that they're sitting on chairs; characters are virtually never seen with stools. The reason will, at times, be part of the story's narrative, but even when it's not, the implication seems to be: We need to show the characters sitting. It has to be a chair.

Problem number one with the trope; you've used the term "film buff", which ''instantly'' invites misuse from editors believing this is a trope about characters that cite movies.

Problem number two with the trope; "Classic Film" doesn't mean old.  ToyStory is a classic film in the modern era, for several reasons, most notably due to it's use of 3D CG.  The examples skew to Black and White, but classic also means well-received, and not all black and white films were well-received.  MST3K is a great source of bad movies, both colour and monochrome.

Problem number three with the trope; possibly the most damning aspect, You haven't found a way to organize the examples consistently.  Is ItsAWonderfulLife an example, and the works that show it should be listed under that entry?  Or is HomeAlone an example, because it shows ItsAWonderfulLife in the work?  Is this trope ReferencedBy or ShoutOut combined with SmallReferencePools and TwoDecadesBehind?

* I'm not saying you don't have a trope here.  I'm asking you to take my problems, and take the time to formulate an answer that shows us what a trope ''is''.  A trope isn't "something that happens in a story".  Tell us of a ''new'' trope, a ''new'' pattern in '''the process of creating and sharing a story'''.