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Wyldchyld
(Old as dirt)
23rd Mar, 2020 05:00:40 PM
Bump.
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.
A Troubled Production entry was added to the Trivia.Gen Lock page by Emerald Theorum in October 2019. This was regarding a crunch period experienced by the Rooster Teeth animation studio, that a lot of animators publicly complained about afterwards.
I asked on the Is This An Example? thread if crunch time was a legitimate example given how widespread the problem is in the animation industry. The consensus was that it's not the trope because it's an industry-wide problem. I therefore removed the trope, quoting the Is This An Example? thread in November 2019.
Emerald Theorum has added the entry back (reworded) citing as a reason the fact that other works list crunch time as a Troubled Production example, but they appear to have not sought any consensus for doing this. They've also vastly expanded the entry by creating multiple separate entries of new examples that come from the DVD Commentary. Their edit reason states:
The new entries can basically be summarised as: 'this special effect was hard to produce', 'the mecha suits had to be fully designed and finalised unusually early', 'one scene could only be designed on one specific computer', 'one episode was extremely stressful'.
As stand alone examples, these entries just seem like standard 'creators talk about the difficulties they have producing seasons and episodes'. Used as part of the crunch time entry, it just seems like excessive bullet pointing to justify re-adding something that was previously removed by consensus.
My questions are as follows:
- Is the whole thing an Edit War, or just the specific entry that directly mentions the crunch time?
- Should I remove the whole thing or just the direct crunch time reference (and leave the new entries alone)?
- Should I take all the other (new) entries to the Is This An Example? thread to see if they're really examples?
Edited by Wyldchyld