HiddenFacedMatt
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Since: Jul, 2011
#27: Sep 26th 2011 at 9:40:05 AM
Exactly why shouldn't this be potholed to?
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RobinZimm
Since: Jan, 2001
#28: Sep 26th 2011 at 2:32:07 PM
The pothole discussion is going to have to happen separately — a crowner for if BTIS is a YMMV trope would be appropriate.
On the subject of misleading descriptions: I'm willing to go down the Webcomics page and comment out or delete misleading-description examples.
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BetterThanItSounds
15th May '11 8:39:16 AM
Crown Description:
Many of the examples indexed in Better Than It Sounds use descriptions which are actively misleading. For example, for the original Alien, the description given is "A stomach cramp gets out of hand", when an accurate summary would be more along the lines of "While investigating a distress call, a member of a freighter spaceship crew gets infected with a parasite, which later bursts out of his chest and starts killing everyone." This kind of manipulative rewriting seems counter to the spirit of the trope, which seems to describe works for which even an accurate description does not explain the appeal.
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