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Miss_Desperado Since: Sep, 2016
2020-08-20 22:47:28

bump

If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Miss_Desperado Since: Sep, 2016
2020-08-24 12:27:22

Rewrote the description

If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Miss_Desperado Since: Sep, 2016
2020-09-04 16:43:15

still didn't get any answers

If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
antenna_ears Since: Apr, 2020
2020-09-04 17:36:11

Possibly a variant. I dunno, seems pretty funny. Gimme some time to think about it.

Miss_Desperado Since: Sep, 2016
2020-09-14 07:03:33

bump

If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Unsung Since: Jun, 2016
2020-09-14 08:27:11

Depends on how it's played? If they really don't understand that there's a difference between, say, a part-time lifeguard at a small beach, a career professional in an area with some big waves or choppy surf, and a navy diver or something, then even if they do make allowances for civilians, I'd say I Thought Everyone Could Do That still applies. If they're doing it as kind of a competitive dig at the other lifeguards, though, then maybe something else. Competition Freak?

Miss_Desperado Since: Sep, 2016
2020-09-15 16:12:52

That's what I'm trying to find out: how I Thought Everyone Could Do That is being played with. It's not Competition Freak, the Training from Hell hero really doesn't understand that applying the performance standards of a navy diver to the poor part-time lifeguards at an indoor swimming pool is overkill.

If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Unsung Since: Jun, 2016
2020-09-15 19:52:29

Maybe slightly downplaying it by giving civilians some slack? But if they really think any civilian could do just as much as they can with a little training, then I think they're oblivious enough that the trope is being played pretty straight. Or maybe even exaggerated slightly in the other direction.

I don't think it's a separate trope, at any rate, is my two cents.

Chabal2 Since: Jan, 2010
2020-09-15 23:13:20

Having overblown expectations of someone's skills/traits because you don't know or have those skills/traits sounds like a trope to me.

Miss_Desperado Since: Sep, 2016
2020-09-25 08:41:43

Maybe, but that's not what's going on here. This is having overblown expectations of someone else's skills/traits because you DO have those skills/traits.

If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Miss_Desperado Since: Sep, 2016
2020-11-08 10:30:25

I took this to the Trope Idea Sounding Board.

If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
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