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TheGunheart Some nights I rule the world (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
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#1: Nov 6th 2010 at 5:52:25 PM

I'm sorry, but is there some term I'm unfamiliar with? Is the weird grammar integral to the trope itself? What I mean to ask is, is there any particularly good reason it isn't simply Convenient Escape Boat?

rodneyAnonymous Sophisticated as Hell from empty space Since: Aug, 2010
#2: Nov 6th 2010 at 5:56:49 PM

"...is there any particularly good reason it isn't simply Convenient Escape Boat?"

I don't see one.

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DRCEQ Since: Oct, 2009
#3: Nov 6th 2010 at 9:30:49 PM

I agree. Why it isn't named Convenient Escape Boat (or vessel for the non-water variety) baffles me.

GiantSpaceChinchilla Since: Oct, 2009
#4: Nov 6th 2010 at 9:57:19 PM

Is there a trope for Escape Pods that happen to be boats? While I don't want to put words into someone's mouth it could be possible to confuse convenient escape boat with convenient escape boat

Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#5: Nov 6th 2010 at 10:35:48 PM

Do escape boats need to be separate from Escape Pod?

edited 6th Nov '10 10:36:12 PM by Deboss

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troacctid (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#6: Nov 6th 2010 at 10:50:42 PM

An "escape boat" in the Escape Pod sense would be a life raft. This trope is about escaping on a boat as it sails away from the dock.

DRCEQ Since: Oct, 2009
#7: Nov 6th 2010 at 11:03:27 PM

If that's the case, that the title itself makes no sense. I just can't see how anyone would come to that conclusion of the trope's intention through it's title.

jebuz I've been Bluelinked from Australia Since: Jan, 2001
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#8: Nov 6th 2010 at 11:10:10 PM

Convenient Boat Escape?

As mentioned above, this is completely different from an Escape Pod. Or maybe not, since an Escape Pod is just sitting around waiting for someone to escape in it. It's still different. >.<

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GiantSpaceChinchilla Since: Oct, 2009
#9: Nov 6th 2010 at 11:18:38 PM

wow... I think sowing confusion is my super-power.

The point I was to make is that the troper who put up Escape Convenient Boat hypothetically may, or may-not, have wanted to be sure the emphasis was on the convenience of the escape instead of the boat itself.

troacctid (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#10: Nov 6th 2010 at 11:26:50 PM

Maybe it's supposed to have a hyphen. Escape-Convenient Boat.

DRCEQ Since: Oct, 2009
jebuz I've been Bluelinked from Australia Since: Jan, 2001
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#12: Nov 7th 2010 at 1:36:01 AM

So move to Escape-Convenient Boat.

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MetaFour AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN from A Place (Old Master)
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#13: Nov 7th 2010 at 8:03:17 AM

Ah. This trope is about a boat that just happens to be pulling away from the dock in time for the protagonists to jump onto to evade their pursuers.

While Convenient Escape Boat calls to mind a life raft that's not in use, that our protagonists use to escape.

Stratadrake Dragon Writer Since: Oct, 2009
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#14: Nov 7th 2010 at 8:17:09 AM

Convenient Boat Escape works. Or, since this is about things taht occur in the nick-of-time, Big Damn Boat Escape?

edited 7th Nov '10 8:17:41 AM by Stratadrake

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#15: Nov 7th 2010 at 8:32:40 AM

I would prefer to not snowclone Big Damn Anything after the whole Big Damn Gunship thing. And still its not this trope since this trope doesn't require someone to bring the boat in... a boat could be just sitting there.

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MetaFour AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN from A Place (Old Master)
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#16: Nov 7th 2010 at 8:59:08 AM

The boat isn't sitting there, the boat is actively leaving, just in time for the protagonists to jump aboard and for the pursuers to land in the water if they try to follow.

Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#18: Nov 7th 2010 at 12:24:11 PM

Does it have to be a boat? Conveniently Escaping Vehicle might work.

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TheGunheart Some nights I rule the world (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
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#19: Nov 7th 2010 at 3:49:43 PM

Yeah. Come to think of it, hasn't this been done with cars, trains and aircraft, too?

TheGunheart Some nights I rule the world (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
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#20: Nov 17th 2010 at 4:23:27 PM

So, why no crowners yet for a rename?

MetaFour AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN from A Place (Old Master)
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#21: Nov 17th 2010 at 8:45:23 PM

Done.

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