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openNo Title Live Action TV
I'm just checking, but is the split to folders at the top of the page something that's ok or should have they been split off to separate sub-pages instead? Also this series is a bit infamous (it's a love it or hate it deal), so I also want to know if this page maybe is too complainy.
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Edit war on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The "Centipede" Group; I refuse to involve myself, but danielle is clearly in the wrong, continuing to remove examples without explanation. Possible sockpuppet? Must investigate further.
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For some reason Series.The A Team has as an alternate name "Ptitleb01h4k3e".
What's up with that?
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atomic89 went and nuked a bunch of examples from Ward's entry on the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. character page without explanation. Among other things, this also caused the Evil Counterpart example to make less sense.
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Could a mod look at the Big WHY?! ykttw
and make a ruling as to whether or not it's a Stock Phrase?
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Recap.Star Trek The Original Series seems to be oddly sarcastic ("Shockingly, an Red Shirt falls down and gets boo-boo") and frequently contains first person asides ("Yeah, I don't get it either") I haven't seen most of the series and I don't feel comfortable trying to fix all of them, but does anyone know why they're written like that? Is it lifted from some other recap somewhere else?
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Someone just added a paragraph to the descriptive text on Series/Space1999, about how a U.S. Supreme Court decision listed "reruns of Space 1999" as a form of torture (along with things such as electric shocks and water torture).
While it's amusing that the show's hatedom extends all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, this is hardly the kind of comments that belong on a show's main page, which is supposed to be objective, isn't it? We don't usually even mention critical reception from serious critics on a work's main page, and even less so quotes of gushing fans or snide haters.
We've been through a couple of rounds of clearing the complaining from this page before (for a forty-year old show, it sure seems to have a strong hatedom), but now it's starting to reappear. I'm inclined to remove this but I'd thought I'd check here first to avoid starting an edit war.
Also, I have a question: this is kind of an amusing anecdote, but where does it belong? On the Trivia page, the Quotes page, or on the Darth Wiki? Or nowhere at all?
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Should Sesame Street have their own section on the "Broken Base'' page under the Live Action section? The only controversy between the fans that I could think of that could go on that page without causing too much controversy on the pages is how Elmo's arrival divided the fans.
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Difference between Like Goes with Like and Token Minority Couple, please?
[Edited because I got the name of the 2nd trope horribly horribly wrong for some reason.]
Edited by randomsurferopenNo Title Live Action TV
Can someone help me parse this example from Doctor Who S6 E3 "The Invasion"?
- Expy: Professor Watkins and his niece Isobel stand in for Professor Travers and his daughter Anne who had appeared earlier. The did not want to pay the writers of the earlier characters. Also possibly the sewer-lurking Cybermen for the subway-lurking Yeti — there's a rumour that this story was originally planned as a direct sequel to "The Web of Fear", before the writers of the two previous Yeti stories fell out with the showrunners over the editing of "The Dominators" and the IP ownership of the Quarks.
- I don't think Expy really applies here, as they are more Suspiciously Similar Substitutes. If I'm right, the whole first part of the example (Travers and Anne/Watkins and Isobel) can be removed.
- I don't know exactly what is meant by "The did not want to pay the writers of the earlier characters," but I don't believe it's accurate in any case. A BBC episode intro by the actor who plays Vaughn in the serial states that the actors who played Travers and Anne weren't available at the time the serial was filmed, so they were Put on a Bus and the parts were slightly rewritten for Watkins and Isobel instead. Can I remove that part of the example on those grounds (if the whole Travers-Anne/Watkins-Isobel shouldn't be removed entirely)?
- As for the second part, I don't know anything about the "rumour" about the writers of the earlier serial The Dominators, but accuracy aside, is the Cybermen/Yeti an example as written?
At the very least, if nothing gets removed, I'm going to separate this into two sub-bullets, since it's two separate examples.
Thanks in advance to any who reply.
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Ever since Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. S02E08, "The Things We Bury", was broadcast, there are some like myself who believe Daniel Whitehall is a Complete Monster solely based on his actions in that episode. However, unlike those others, I have shown a perfect willingness to wait until his time on the show ends and have even helped remove his example until the proper time.
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Would it count as Harsher in Hindsight if the creators blatantly meant for something to have meaning, but only after a certain reveal?
The point I'm referring to is from Series.Jane The Virgin. One woman uses her husband's frozen sperm to try to inseminate herself. At the time, it seems like a desperate attempt to get him to stay with her.
However, later on it's revealed she's a golddigger and it's just an attempt to keep him long enough for their prenup to kick in, thus giving her his money.
Still later on, it's revealed that it's his only sample and the only chance he'll ever have at having a child.
Is it Harsher in Hindsight when the creator intends for it to be harsher?
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Okay, so in Season 2 of Law & Order, a female psychologist consoles a detective over the loss of his partner. Their relationship seems platonic, but it isn't until Season 18 that it's heavily implied that she in fact slept with that detective.
What's that trope called? It's driving me nuts. Any suggestions would help. Thanks!
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If a piece of information is retconned, would you put that trope under the episode where that information first appeared or under the episode that changed it?
Reading tropes such as You Know What You Did
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I was going to do some edits for season ten of Buffy the Vampire Slayer when I came across this.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YMMV/BuffyTheVampireSlayer
I gotta say Mickey Moose does raise a valid point but do the edits come off as maybe a little...edgy perhaps? Designated Hero is a fair shake for this scene?
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Need Characters.Forever restored. I put it on the cutlist for being a poorly-formatted stub, but then it was fixed, and then it was cut a few weeks later.
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bt8257 has been removing edits from https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/WhoseLineisitAnyway
that I don't believe should be removed. If he is correct to remove them, can you please explain why? From the discussion page, this seems to be an ongoing problem.
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What is the site's official stance on profanity on work pages that do not have that level of profanity in them? Two pages in recent memory (The Shield and Doctor Who S13 E6 "The Seeds of Doom") both used "fuck" as a Precision F-Strike to get a point across, but both works are rated so low that you would never ever hear such a word on them.
In the first instance I swapped out "fuck" with "goddamn" since that is something that you would hear in the WWE but kept the same tone the original troper was conveying, but couldn't make a similar edit on the second one and didn't know wether or not it would be okay to just completely change it. Is there an officially policy on this?
Edited by ShaokenopenNo Title Live Action TV
I just launched AuctionKings and I wanted to put an image up.
I've read through the Administrivia pages, but I'm still not 100% clear on what's acceptable. How do I tell if an image is legal for us to use?
I'll also take any general feedback on the page itself. Feel free to make updates yourself or suggest them to me.

I am trying to remember the name of an 80's TV show - it's driving me mad... Approximately 1985/86 - Two guys - partners - cops / detectives. One dressed vintage/rockabilly style - one was more modern/trendy. I feel like the modern guy was black but I am not 100% sure...??