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EDIT: My point is that this is not the \\\"first time\\\" that tropers have been driven to compare a work to other works, sometimes wildly different works. The only difference here is that 1) the movie was extremely popular, so almost all editing tropers have seen it, leading to a large number of edits and not a lot of clean-up in-between, 2) the movie is a cliche storm/troperiffic, moreover, it is a sci fi flick, so our young nerd tropers are seeing a lot of tropes that they are intimately familiar with and have seen before (which is why they are tropes, no?), 3) there is a lot of disdain for the movie around these parts, leading to a lot of snark and \\\"X did it/is better\\\" type sentiment, and 4) there is an admin preventing it from being trimmed down or deleted.
Other works don\\\'t have most of those advantages, so when someone adds an example of DuelingMovies or RecycledInSpace that doesn\\\'t really work or is too snarky, it gets quietly deleted.
I\\\'m also questioning the entire DuelingMovies section. In order to fit the definition, one of the two movies has to be \\\'\\\'deliberately\\\'\\\' copying the other in order to \\\'\\\'steal its success.\\\'\\\' That\\\'s not the case with any of them.
Other works don\\\'t have most of those advantages, so when someone adds an example of DuelingMovies or RecycledInSpace that doesn\\\'t really work or is too snarky, it gets quietly deleted.
I\\\'m also questioning the entire DuelingMovies section. In order to fit the definition, one of the two movies has to be \\\'\\\'deliberately\\\'\\\' copying the other in order to \\\'\\\'steal its success.\\\'\\\' That\\\'s not the case with any of them.
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Er, the Eragon list included The Lord of the Rings, The Dragonriders of Pern (and a few other empathic BondCreatures series), the Earthsea series, and I think the Shannara series as well.
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Er, the Eragon list included The Lord of the Rings, The Dragonriders of Pern (and a few other empathic BondCreatures series), the Earthsea series, and I think the Shannara series as well.
EDIT: My point is that this is not the \\\"first time\\\" that tropers have been driven to compare a work to other works, sometimes wildly different works. The only difference here is that 1) the movie was extremely popular, so almost all editing tropers have seen it, 2) the movie is a cliche storm/troperiffic, moreover, it is a sci fi flick, so our young nerd tropers are seeing a lot of tropes that they are intimately familiar with and have seen before (which is why they are tropes, no?), 3) there is a lot of disdain for the movie around these parts, leading to a lot of snark and \\\"X did it/is better\\\" type sentiment, and 4) there is an admin preventing it from being trimmed down or deleted.
Other works don\\\'t have most of those advantages, so when someone adds an example of DuelingMovies or RecycledInSpace that doesn\\\'t really work or is too snarky, it gets quietly deleted.
I\\\'m also questioning the entire DuelingMovies section. In order to fit the definition, one of the two movies has to be \\\'\\\'deliberately\\\'\\\' copying the other in order to \\\'\\\'steal its success.\\\'\\\' That\\\'s not the case with any of them.
EDIT: My point is that this is not the \\\"first time\\\" that tropers have been driven to compare a work to other works, sometimes wildly different works. The only difference here is that 1) the movie was extremely popular, so almost all editing tropers have seen it, 2) the movie is a cliche storm/troperiffic, moreover, it is a sci fi flick, so our young nerd tropers are seeing a lot of tropes that they are intimately familiar with and have seen before (which is why they are tropes, no?), 3) there is a lot of disdain for the movie around these parts, leading to a lot of snark and \\\"X did it/is better\\\" type sentiment, and 4) there is an admin preventing it from being trimmed down or deleted.
Other works don\\\'t have most of those advantages, so when someone adds an example of DuelingMovies or RecycledInSpace that doesn\\\'t really work or is too snarky, it gets quietly deleted.
I\\\'m also questioning the entire DuelingMovies section. In order to fit the definition, one of the two movies has to be \\\'\\\'deliberately\\\'\\\' copying the other in order to \\\'\\\'steal its success.\\\'\\\' That\\\'s not the case with any of them.
