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Recreating a page Live Action TV

Would it be fine if I recreated the Inside Amy Schumer pagee?

2 girls chained Live Action TV

It could also be a movie?? So all I remember is that there are two teens/young women one of whom is blonde are kidnapped and are chained/shackled around one ankle one of them manages to pick the lock but the guy comes back and takes one of them away

ignore Live Action TV

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Looking for a old brittish tv show Live Action TV

Don't no much about it I think it was called kicking it its nkt the martial arts american show its a teen show I remember a kid took this girls phone out of her bag and started to spread rumours and every one turned on her then the kid put the phone somewhere and every one found out it wasn't her another thing I remember a american kid joins in to play football aka soccer and he's not good at it then they put him in goal and he's good at it beause he plays basket ball he he's good at catching if it was roughly in the 2000-2005

Documentary film crews Live Action TV

I've been watching a few docuumenataries where a film crew tunns up to document the 'first meeting for 20 years' of a participant and their friends or family.

It's unlikely that the crew will just turn up and start filming, rather they would make arrangements first and arrive by appointment.

Is there a trope for this sort of thing

Kev

Adaptational tropes in Halo Live Action TV

Okay, we really need to do something about Adaptational Jerkass and Adaptational Villainy in the pages related to Halo (2022). Tropers have been adding these tropes to plot and character pages simply because the characters, especially the Master Chief himself, aren't as squeaky-clean and goody-two-shoes as their video game counterparts.

Yes, I get that the show is deliberately meant to be Darker and Edgier compared to the games, but those dark and edgy elements were always present in the games' background. They just didn't get enough screentime because the games focused less on the UNSC's unsavory actions and more on the heroic defense of humanity. Besides, despite his flaws, the UNSC's soldiers are still devoted to their duty and part of their character development is to form bonds with each other, just like the Chief and Cortana are doing throughout season 1.

But these are just one man's opinions. What do you think?

I think that clips of Judge Judy are missing Live Action TV

Can you find clips of Judge Judy and upload them to TV Tropes?

I think that clips from recent episodes of Law & Order are missing Live Action TV

Can you find clips of recent Law & Order episodes and upload them to TV Tropes?

Extent of DMOS Rules Live Action TV

This is a little embarrassing, as the answer is probably obvious, but I truly do not know. In regards to Dethroning Moment Of Suck, how does it work for different installments in the same medium of the same franchise? I added years ago to Live Action TV an entry for Lady Gaga and the Muppets: Holiday Spectacular, and I now want to add one for a brief scene in The Muppets 2015. I think they are different enough (one is a TV special) that I feel comfortable adding it, but I want to be 100% sure of the rules first.

Conversation on the Main page Live Action TV

Artistic License – Economics has some serious conversation on the main page issues in the Star Trek section. It looks a bit like a forum or comment section to me.

I don't have enough in-depth knowledge of ST economics to fix it. Help please?

Replace with OG writing Live Action TV

Hello there.

I want to know if it's possible to recreate the red links in

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/PowerRangersDinoThunder

I'm currently working on replacing it with original writing.

Where to go to cleanup Shipping Goggles? Live Action TV

I noticed the Wizards of Waverly Place pages have a weird amount of projection from people shipping Justin and Alex. You know, the biological brother and sister who are by no means meant to be seen as romantic. For example, I just cut a Slap-Slap-Kiss entry that looked like this:

• Slap-Slap-Kiss: Justin and Alex are constantly making fun of each other, but will (almost) always make up in the end. Due to Relationship Writing Fumble most fans have actually stopped seeing them as siblings.
  Wowp creator: Oh my gosh, we got a Jalex question. Fan: Are Justin and Alex going to end up together? Wowp creator: (Laughs) They are brother and sister, PEOPLE.

I dunno if this was just one really persistent fan years ago or if it's a fandom-wide thing, but it's... a weird thing to shoehorn into the main page, and I'd like more eyes on it. I cut it when I see it but not everything is obvious as I don't really follow these pages usually. And it's not just these pages thta have a Shipping Goggles pages, it just stood out most here.

Kwan Ha = Scrappy? Live Action TV

We return once again to the wondrous world of Halo (2022) to talk about Kwan Ha. She was registered as The Scrappy under the following argument:

"Kwan Ha was supposed to be an Audience Surrogate for the audience of this series based on the popular Halo games and she was given a tragic back story in order to make her into an interesting and sympathetic character. However, she is slowly becoming disliked by the audience, due to her abrasive and disrespectful temperament. Even in-universe, some of the characters barely tolerate Kwan’s attitude."

I had to delete the entry because it seemed like a knee-jerk reaction and I felt that we should wait 6 months after the end of season 1 until we can make an informed decision about her. What do you say?

Unintentionally Unsympathetic consensus Live Action TV

Hi there,

I'm coming here after recently being Edit Banned for unintentionally Edit Warring (sorry about that) to resolve a still ongoing situation.

It's about the Unintentionally Unsympathetic entry on this page here. It was removed by Troper broman 29 because he felt that a character was justified in calling out the hero. I added it back (with a needlessly inflammatory edit reason, sorry again) because I felt it was missing the point, as it is not about arguing morals, but about the Fandom, or at least a large portion feeling that way. Now, another Troper removed it again.

How should this situation best be handled? Should we maybe rewrite and put it under Informed Wrongness instead, as it is on the main work page?

Real life story Live Action TV

Ok this is a long shot. In the early 2000’s there was a afternoon talk show in the U.K. called Richard and Judy on channel 4 they used to run a segment every week talking about books etc. it was a big deal to get your book shown on there. Anyway they ran a couple of competitions where you could get your novel published. One of these competitions was to have a real life story told. I remember one of the finalists was a story about a girl and her sister who walked through WW 2 Germany to escape but the story I’m interested in was about a woman who was trying to drive her possibly drive her friend mad or was stalking her friend and then she tried to blame everything on her friends 3/4 year old child. I know I didn’t dream this I remember the interview they spoke to the victim from behind in a darkened chair etc. my partner thinks I’m making this up but he watched it with me. Did this happen is the story online anywhere as the idea is interesting and I’d like to read more about it for a short story idea I have. Sorry for the long post.

Fanservice Tropes/Halo (2022) Live Action TV

I'm sorry if this should maybe go in another place, but I wasn't sure so I figured I'd start here. I've bene going over the Series / Halo 2022 character pages (which are a bit of a mess, but I'm trying to focus on one issue), and I figured I'd start with something small that's been bugging me.

Namely, the Mr/Ms. Fanservice tropes are used no less than 4 times on the character page, with what I would call very thin justification.

First, there's John the Master Chief

• Mr. Fanservice: Scarring aside, Chief is a very ripped man underneath all that armor. The third episode has him buck naked, with several full views of his rear, in the SPARTAN barracks, even if the scene in question has him taking a suppression implant out of his back using a knife.

As pointed out, the scene where John is nude is so he can perform surgery on himself, it's not scored or lit or shot in "look at how sexy John is" sort of way. He is muscular, but then so are plenty of the characters on the show.

Next, Kai another SPARTAN

• Ms. Fanservice: Like with her CO, Kai is shown naked in the SPARTAN barracks for a brief moment to show off her well-toned physique—and that she took out her hormonal pellet.

Same thing, the purpose of the nudity is not to titillate, arouse, or otherwise turn on the audience.

Third, there's Vinsher Grath, played by Burn Gorman

• Mr. Fanservice: He gets a scene in a bathhouse in Episode 4 showcasing his toned physique.

This is another one that I don't think qualifies, because as the scene did actually seem to be using the nudity for a purpose, but not fanservice. It was more so A: Vinsher could give secret orders to an assassin and B: to show how decadent he is now that he rules the planet-he's smoking a cigar in the bath as well, to showcase that he's living the high life.

Last but not least

• Ms. Fanservice: Makee gets to undress in the second episode, showing off her very attractive figure in the process (aside from some scarring).

There is, to be fair about a two-second shot of Makee's backside from a wide angle, but once again the nudity is being used to tell a story-namely, Makee is changing out of the clothes she wears when working for the Covenant (which she has presumably worn for decades) and into more human clothes. The scene also cuts to John explaining how he felt emotions for the first time in basically forever, to highlight that John and Makee are similar (both are becoming more human, so to speak, which gets brought up in later episodes), and in this case Makee spends a lot of time staring at her body, as if re-examining her limbs to understand that she is a human (as someone basically raised by aliens, she doesn't think of herself much as a human), so the nudity is, again, being used to tell a story.

So, I think the problem I have is these examples are operating under the idea that "nudity, for any reason at all=fanservice". Am I making too much of this, or should these examples maybe be removed? Obviously, anybody can be turned on by anything, and all of these characters are played by actors who are conventionally attractive, but given how attractive everybody is in tv/film, I figured there were some thresholds for Mr./Ms. Fanservice to avoid overuse and gushing.

For what it's worth, every single example was added by one troper, chris4449.

late 90's or 2000's detective crime drama Live Action TV

The show was UK and from around the early 200’s / late 90’s – I think it was one of the last episodes in a series and the main “cop” was not in it – (probably why I can’t remember the show) the plot of this episode was a documentary team turn up to “investigate” an old case – a stabbing in a caravan. The caravan has remained empty over the years. The documentary team are shadowed by a lawyer or cop who is dragged back into the investigation. The case is - a couple were living in the caravan on the caravan park. They had been on a night out and when they returned to the caravan one was “accidentally” stabbed in the back. The accused man was sent to prison and insists on his innocence– the accused insists he never knew of the stab wound. Both men went to bed – one pours the other a last brandy as a night cap - and then they went to sleep. In the morning one man wakes to find the body lying in bed in a pool of blood. As the episode unfolds the true story of that night is told in flashbacks. As the episode progresses further there’s a growing sense that the investigation wasn’t thorough and that the man imprisoned may be telling the truth –up till the end those investigating and re-enacting for the documentary are split with some convinced that there is enough doubt and others not. AS I recall shown if flash backs are different moments from the couple’s night out – one is flirting with everyone and the other seems jealous. The woman that ran the pub or club is not as forthcoming as you’d expect. And one of the two main characters his young daughter was present in the caravan and woke up during an argument, that’s when the fatal wound occurred. The injured man shrugs off the injury and says it’s nothing as a way to comfort the girl. Any ideas what series this was from?

Misaimed Complaint (Halo 2022)? Live Action TV

So there's a bit on Halo's YMMV page about They Changed It, Now It Sucks!, that is railing against the Fanservice in the show.

• A lot of fans have been complaining about the show's heavy emphasis on Fanservice from a franchise with very little of it aside from Cortana's game design, with the second through fourth episode featuring at least one nude scene, including from the Chief himself. It's even more ironic considering the reaction to Cortana's design for the show, which made her more modest.

The issue I have is none of the scenes in question are played for Fanservice at all. Even calling them nude scenes is only technically correct, as two of them are scenes of characters performing surgery on themselves, another is simply a quick shot of a character getting changed in and out of clothes, and then there's one of a character in a bath that is played less for "look at how sexy this man is" (though it is Burn Gorman) and more for "look how decadent this new ruler of a planet is" Seems more like a complaint about human nudity in general, which seems a bit odd. That's ignoring the weasel words of "A lot of fans".

I figure the example should either be cut or rewritten.

Potential agenda-based editing on LiveActionTV\KillingEve pages Live Action TV

The troper Rm 74 has been misuing For the Evulz and Face–Heel Turn on the Killing Eve pages. I've deleted all of them as they are stating things that aren't true, and creating this entry just in case it escalates to an edit war.

While it's on an unrelated page, their edit reason on YMMV.No Time To Die was quite aggressive towards another troper.

Tv show, what is it? Live Action TV

It’s driving me insane as can’t think of any cast or their character names. Set in America, possibly la but not 100%. British man, has a book, he is blonde/strawberry blonde. lives with a male roommate, can’t remember his race but not white. Dark hair, quite quirky but nice man. Lots of drugs, sex etc the two leads have a passionate dysfunctional relationship. Main male meets female lead who is petite red head. Mental health struggles. Her friend is beautiful curvy woman with a quirky voice who hooks up with the roommate. Does that ring any bells with anybody? Not much to go on now ive written it out 🙈 not surprising I can’t find it.