Does this website have anything meaningful to say in terms of media analysis or are their tropes just invented by a couple of redditors that wanted to develope a niche project?
>>21464>>21461>TVTropes>Jungian archetypesAh yes the well known Jungian archetypes of [hits "random trope" button several times]
<One Drink Will Kill the Baby<Look Behind You<Immortal Assassin<God Karting with Beelzebub<Transformation Horror<A Match Made in Stockholm<Double Unlock<Plug 'n' Play TechnologyMhm, this is exactly what Jung was talking about.
I like reading TVTropes, it helps me find new media that I might like, and it's entertaining, though you eventually get bored of it.
>>21477>People shouldn't make tropes into something they are not. A movie or comic or novel is not bad because it has some tropes.Exactly, that's why they always say "Tropes Are Tools" to remind the reader that tropes don't make a work inherently bad.
Though you're still right
>>21478For example?
>>21479Ask yourself if the economic arrangements in the fictional world make sense. How do the people reproduce themselves, how does this economic reproduction process reinforce the political superstructure, what contradictions arise as a result of the economic process?
The presence of slavery in star wars for example, makes no sense as we see there are already droids which can do the work of slaves and the productive forces are advanced enough for a high degree of automation.
Tropes are not a completely useless way to look at fiction but no one should ever take them this seriously.
>>21482Pretty much
>>21489Yeah lol
I read a "short" summary of Atlas Shrugged (or was it Ayn Rand's ideology in general?) on TVTropes once, and the article sounds pretty convincing. Makes you think about the kind of people that edit that site.
>>21498That's not necessarily a bad thing, and you can probably edit without an account
There are interesting things that were removed for apparently no reason on the main site that can only be found in the edit history, for example
>>21455I mean that depends on your perspective
And it seems you don't think they do
It can be a useful tool for writing and discovering things that have story elements that you can like. On the flipside, there is a tendency to believe that a story can be broken down into parts and can be categorized, and that these categorizations make something 'good' or not. People obsess over these story components rather than enjoying the story in and of itself.
Also, some of the userbase has a tendency to be obnoxious in this regard. Trying to label this behavior as
REDDIT is an oversimplification.
Stories are not legos but many who use TVtropes have this tendency to look at stories and see these interchangeable parts. Or that 'writing a good story' is avoiding certain story elements. That and some used to think fictional story elements could be applied to real life back when the (embarrassing) forums were still a thing.
Basically paraphrasing this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQsPo6L9m-A>>35014A trope or cliche doesn't make them bad you know, changing something for the sake of change is just going to create a mess, there's a trope and cliche for just about everything.
>>35015 THIS
>>24606The problem is just their tendency to try to make the list as long as possible, regardless of how unrelated the works being listed are.
You can have a trope called something like A Woman With Red Hair and you can bet that under the examples of the A Woman With Red Hair trope, someone will cite: Chuubo's Piss Fetish Universe (averted): Women have brown hair in Chuubo's Piss Fetish Universe.
>>42315I respect the fact that they wanted to do something creative like the movies and TV and shit they watch but the stuff like Linkara's videos where he's an uber superhero in character as Linkara is just embarrassing. I wouldn't say it to the guy's face but come on having a recurring storyline where you play like 5 characters in it which is just you in different outfits is just beyond belief.
I mean I guess I can't hate though because it's that confidence which led them to become successful creators in the first place, personally I put way too much perfectionism into my videos to the point that I got too stressed out to ever make any and got sad I didn't instantly become popular
>>42324Honestly I wouldn't even notice any loose ends being tied up or not at this point.
I dunno I'm kinda tempted to stop reading but like I say I like the shipping and I wanna play those troll dating Sims.
>>22949This. Comparing things to "reddit" is fucking retarded. Thinking that people can BE reddit is retarded. There's no competition between reddit and other websites. These fucking faggots supposedly loathe reddit so much and yet they give it such power by always, always, constantly referencing it as an insult to people who don't even use it. People made their choice and they're here. And the second they're not edgy enough or they're too mature that's the insult: "Go back". Go be with those "regular" people with their normal opinions, or whatever the actual crime of reddit even is. There's no way to tell from context. Just anything the accuser doesn't like becomes "reddit".
Did these people get kicked out of there or something? Who pays any attention? I'd never know anything about reddit if it weren't constantly mentioned on imageboards as some sort of bad place for dorks or something.
It's basically free advertising. I don't understand.
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