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I mean, "less ambitious or less satisfying" sounds pretty opinion-based to me.
Maybe, but the index is still 25 tropes to 6 YMMV. (And two of those YMMV are straight-up audience reactions, which this definitely isn't.)
Should we even have indices that mix tropes and YMMV?
Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
I mean, between the complaint magnet nature of it, the subjective nature of "less ambitious or less satisfying," and potentially the "to a certain climax," it absolutely should be YMMV.
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I agree that its most certainly a YMMV trope.
It's definitely YMMV. It's subjective because what one person thinks is a cheap cop-out, another can find to be artistically motivated. What one person thinks is less satisfying another may find more satisfying, and so on. There are no objective standards for this.
Not even when we have Word of God that the author themselves thought it was a cop out is it objective, because it's still just an opinion and creators sometimes underestimate their own work.
Is it possible you think it's not YMMV because you agree with the examples? Just a possibility. It's definitely a subjective trope.
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I think their problem is that this is an index that contains non-YMMV tropes (some of which are not necessarily cop-outs)
Whoops, yeah, misread the query, my bad.
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^^ I have several problems with this, of which that is indeed one. It's sounding like the only one anyone agrees with me on, though, so let's focus on that for now.
Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
Writer Cop Out is described as such: "A cop out is when a story builds to a certain climax and the writer suddenly wusses out and chooses a different, less ambitious or less satisfying ending, or worse, chooses not to end the story at all. This may come out of Executive Meddling, Creator Breakdown, lack of talent, or simply an incomprehensible creative choice."
This doesn't seem particularly subjective? And the items listed in the index on the page are largely not YMMV.
To be fair, it's probably a complaint magnet, but I'm pretty sure that pretending like it's YMMV isn't the answer to that.