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MinisterOfSinister Since: Jan, 2014
21st Aug, 2019 02:27:17 PM

If it's an anti-discrimination aesop that says bigots who fail to reform deserve to suffer horribly, that sounds like it could be closer to Clueless Aesop (i.e. "Treating people like dirt for being different is wrong, but treating people who hold socially-unacceptable views like dirt is okay" definitely sounds like a confused-ass message.) Alternatively, if there are a valid amount of people who think an anti-discrimination aesop is valid but the show's handling of it undermines the point that would be Don't Shoot the Message. Maybe it's a Space Whale Aesop if the magic-normies angle is not meaningfully connected to IRL discrimination in any way?

Ferot_Dreadnaught Since: Mar, 2015
21st Aug, 2019 11:32:22 PM

Moved to Lost Aesop. Seems the more appropriate trope.

GastonRabbit MOD (General of TV Troops)
22nd Aug, 2019 02:18:41 AM

There's no such thing as a partial example. A trope is present or absent, or it's played with in some way.

Anyway, if it's a proper example of Lost Aesop, then I'd imagine that's fine.

Edited by GastonRabbit Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
MinisterOfSinister Since: Jan, 2014
22nd Aug, 2019 06:04:57 AM

Also, that example needs to be edited for grammar clean-up. It's kind of a mess.

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